Launched April 2020
This website project presents student work from Type Design or Letterform, an elective course within the Graphic Design department. Over the course of one semester, students develop typefaces more or less closely based on historical reference material. Source material is treated as a guideline, an example to learn from. The objective is to build a functioning and usable font as a consistent system of shapes and spaces, based on an understanding of the aesthetic demands of individual letterforms as well as the interrelations between them.
Instructors include Tobias Frere-Jones, Nina Stössinger, and Matthew Carter. This website was developed by Nina Stössinger and TA Julia Schäfer ‘20 with help from students Jun Jung '21, Mianwei Wang '21, Minhwan Kim '21, Sam Wood '20, and Yuanbo Wang '20, with technical setup by Sarah Stevens-Morling, Assistant Dean for Communications and Digital Media. The website will be expanded over time to include work created in other years.
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