Typeface Design

Typeface design is a practical design project where the student is introduced to fundamental techniques and skills related to the design of typefaces. The course contains assignments in the craft of type design, tools, composition and form, and a typeface design project with formative-iterative supervison.

The student will develop further knowledge of letterforms and the connection between analog and digital tools, form and expression, and the connection between use context and letterform. The student will during the course design a typeface with a full Norwegian alphabet within a given genre of typefaces and for a specified purpose.

Lectures and individual project, with supervision (formative-iterative evaluation). Sketches, the work process, and the end result must be documented. The course is run by typface designer Veronika Burian (from Type Together).