This is a character design pattern learned last week during John Stevens Capital’s Immersion Class — the Ogee Curve. Stevens used it to describe the small inward cup, or “dip” present in the Monumental Capital (AKA Trajan) top stem serif.
Category: Workshops
Results from the calligraphy workshop
In the past week, we hosted a calligraphy workshop, lectured by the visiting Design teacher and Ph.D. researcher Maíra Woloszyn. It was a one-day workshop, divided into two morning and afternoon sessions, where participants created their own tools —in order to better understand the relation between the stroke mark and its tool marker—, and were… Continue reading Results from the calligraphy workshop
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… Continue reading SLOType Workshop 2021