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We will write/draw and digitize a capital alphabet, then produce variations, refinements and trial settings. On a conceptual and practical level we will explore how the qualities of hand made lettersâ€...

We will write/draw and digitize a capital alphabet, then produce variations, refinements and trial settings. On a conceptual and practical level we will explore how the qualities of hand made letters—gesture, balance, vitality, personality—may be preserved in making letters which are ultimately produced by a machine. What is lost/gained in the process of making type? We will also look at alphabets as systems and the strategies that may be employed in translating the scribal tradition in which letters are seen as patterns of strokes into the typographic tradition where letters are seen as conceptual configurations. The aim is to give students a basis on which to begin or expand their own personal tradition of letter making.
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