Type Walk

Type Draw

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This workshop is for anyone with an interest in Type Design and is curious to start drawing letters, word marks, and eventually digital typefaces. This workshop aims to gather inspirational sources from around the city and imagine how to draw the idea of shapes into letters and words.

About the TWTD Workshop

This is a 16-hour beginner-level workshop stretched throughout the period of 2 consecutive days.

Participants will be introduced to the first steps of type design through observation, drawing, and digitization. They'll be invited to observe their surroundings and to photograph and document letter forms and shapes that will serve as the basis of their work.

Basic font development software skills will be given as well as the best practices of digital drawing. Depending on the overall level of the participants, basic Variable Font skills might be explored.

This workshop activity is being organized in the training extension program of the Master in Graphic Design and Editorial Projects, and hosted with the generous support of the i2ADS research unit facilities at FBAUP.

Participation certificates will be emitted to everyone attending the full workshop. Participants are required to attend the full two days.

Date and Venue

Monday & Tuesday, 22 & 23 July 2024
From 09:30 – 18h30 GMT (with 1h lunch break)

i2ADS Research Unit, Sala 1.06
Praça Coronel Pacheco, 15
 4050-453 Porto

Workshop Program

Day 1:

  • Type Walk through Porto
  • Capturing references and inspiration
  • Learning letter drawing techniques
  • Introduction to Glyphs (Mac), Fontlab (PC)
  • Basic principles of digitisation
  • Principles of Variable Font drawing

Day 2:

  • Feedback rounds
  • Further digital drawing
  • Printing and projecting final work

Requirements

The participants should own and bring a Mac or PC laptop and have access to a license or trial of Glyphs App or Fontlab. Exceptionally, participants will be allowed to use Adobe Illustrator.

The workshop will be held in person and in Portuguese language, but it is suitable for English-speaking attendants. Participants are required to follow an inclusive and constructive code-of-conduct.

Workshop (Pre-) Registration

Thank you for your interest in our upcoming workshop! Please note that we have a limited number of 20 seats available. To secure your spot, we are using a pre-registration process.

How It Works:

  1. Pre-Register: Fill out the pre-registration form with your details.
  2. Confirmation: We will manually check seat availability and confirm your registration via email.
  3. Final Notice: You will receive a confirmation & instructions email up to two days before the event.

Please ensure that you provide accurate contact information so we can reach you promptly. If you have any questions, feel free to contact us at via email.

If more participants than available slots are interested, a waiting list will be setup. We ask participants who are unable to attend to cancel their registration via the contact email, so we can give an opportunity to those on the waiting list to register and attend.

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Instructors

Diogo Rapazote is a Graphic Designer with a BA in Diogo Rapazote Fine Arts Faculty, University of Porto. Diogo has over 10 years of experience designing type, books, posters and other graphic materials. He worked for 5 years at Dalton Maag in London and is now launching his own Type Foundry.

Pedro Amado (Ph.D., MFA) is an Assistant Professor of Type Design, Typography and Web Design at FBAUP. Integrated researcher and member of the direction of the i2ADS research institute , collaborator of the ID+ research institute, director of the Master in Graphic Design and Editorial Projects, a founding member of the ATIPO, and country delegate for the ATypI. Passionate for digital tinkering, and all things letters, such as calligraphy and letterpress printing, he focuses his research and development activities on post-digital typography and interaction design. Additional info and links: https://linktr.ee/pedamado