Gjøvik: Typeface design course
March 2012
Veronika Burian was invited to give a week-long type design workshop at the Norwegian University ‘Høgskolen i Gjøvik’. The students, in their final 3rd year, were asked to design a text typeface.
Veronika Burian was invited to give a week-long type design workshop at the Norwegian University ‘Høgskolen i Gjøvik’. The students, in their final 3rd year, were asked to design a text typeface.
Starting with sketching for 2 days and then moving on to digitize their work. The remaining 3 days were spent tracing the scanned shapes and then fine-tune and expand the character set. The workshop was accompanied by several short theoretical lectures about bezier curve drawing, optical corrections and principles of letter drawing. At the end of the week, most students had a full set of lowercase letters. Veronika Burian visited the class 3 weeks later and supervised the student’s progress. Additionally she gave a talk about ‘Type in Media’ at the ‘Medie Dagen 12’at the same university.
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