In this project, we will implement narrative into the tool of noting narratives: We will work with ornaments in typefaces.
The ornament is an iconic tool of history writing, or less explicit, of contextual indication. Think of antique vases or mediaeval cathedrals:they were full of decoration and ornaments repeating stories of cultural significance, anchoring them in their time and documenting history. The object gets a function beyond its function.
We will also create vessels that will be useful and meaningful: Focusing on Art Deco as well as Postmodernism & the Contemporary, we will investigate the Ornament/Iconography/Symbolism in type, art, architecture. We will also investigate the ornament as well as its (erased) position in the Bauhaus under a critical and intersectional feminist lense.
The Goal of the class is to draw a display typeface that is ornamentalized in order to tell a story beyond the words it will spell. Either a formal, artistic or historic research documentation is expected as well as a physical object to correspond with your typeface.
Part of the class will also be presentations about famous ornaments/eras of decoration/decorators.
Capacity: 10 Students + 2 Students can come with ongoing type projects
Language: English//on demand
Community: Excursion to Typoklasse at HGB Leipzig, Long Typo Nights with Marcel
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