Category: News
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Calligraphy Workshop
On Wednesday, January 19, we’ll host and conduct a calligraphy workshop with our guest teacher and Ph.D. researcher Maíra Woloszyn. The workshop is geared towards beginner and intermediate practitioners, from all fields of art and design. But it is especially focused on the type design and designers as it aims to provide specific knowledge on…
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FBAUP @ 11ET
The 11th edition of the Typography Meeting (@encontrodetipografia) took place at Caldas da Rainha, from November 25 to 27. The program included very expressive participation from the FBAUP’s students (mainly the MDGPE’s students) and a Ph.D. researcher. In total, we conducted two workshops, presented three papers, and exhibited four posters. As usual, the conference started…
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Typographic Identities (Ph.D. presentation)
Today, Thursday, September 9 a UFSC/FBAUP Ph.D. examination will take place online, at 1:30 pm. This is a very interesting a relevant research to the Type Design course of the MDGPE master program mainly because the candidate —the researcher and soon to be professor Eduardo Napoleão— has not only actively participated in our type design…
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GT Academy: Type Design Tutorials
The Grilli Type Foundry has been publishing a series of small bite-sized tutorials on type design: the GT Academy. Currently, it features 17 “issues” published ranging from drawing basics to advanced optical compensations. It starts in a slightly different approach from ours: with the letter “a”. But then, the method is almost the same. Starting…
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Invisible shapes
Although this is not a work produced directly in this course, it was a master dissertation research by Carolina Ferreira that started and was supervised by the previous professor of this course, the Type Designer Dino dos Santos. And by my current colleague, professor Diniz Cayolla. As I’ve had the opportunity to do before, this…
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SLOType Workshop 2021
This week, in the type design course, we will have once again two invited guests co-lecturing the speculative type design workshop “SLOType”. This workshop is part of on-going research on creativity and type design education that has started in 2018 with Ana Catarina Silva (IPCD-ESD / ID+) and Julien Priez (@booypaper). In 2020 Eduardo Napoleão…
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Induction to writing and calligraphy
Last week we have initiated the semester. After an initial discussion on basic terms, we’ll finish this theoretical introduction with some calligraphy practice geared towards the foundational hand. During this semester, I’ll be updating the syllabus on this website with a sample of the materials and brief conceptual/theoretical notes from the classes’ slide decks. Make…
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Hello world!
Welcome to the InkTrap website. This week we’ll start the academic activities —online, of course! During this year we’ll have many challenges. Starting with “how to start classes without knowing anyone in person”, and “not knowing if we’re ever going to meet in-person”. So activities are planned to be held strictly online. During this semester…