3.31.2011

Eben Sorkin's letter for the students

Dear Workshop students,
it was a great pleasure to get to meet you all personally and to have the short opportunity to discuss ideas with you all. In the humanities we do a great deal of our work through skill and intuition. These are of course very very wonderful things! I hope you are able to add critical evaluation of usefulness and in some cases even some awareness of the science of perception to strengthen your work still further. I hope you find the strategy of narrowing the project through aggressive project definition is one that you find helpful. I find that highly focused projects are often the most happy projects. Because of our short time our discussions were always  more one way than I would have wished. I hope you will help me improve things by staying in touch as your project develop!

Best wishes!

-e.

3.26.2011

Workshop with Ann and Eben

 designers credo


discussing different kinds of documents and the typography in it in groups
















3.17.2011

First meeting 25–27.03

FRIDAY

12:00
Students introduce themselves to Ann & Eben and indicate what they want to accomplish. 

12:10  
Eben Sorkin Utility First: This is a very short presentation on why I am teach students to emphasize utility over aesthetics, not in absolute terms but in terms of sequence. I explain how this approach saves time overall and leaves more time to consider beauty/aesthetics.

Lunch Break

12:45 
Eben Sorkin Lecture: The primacy of the context and the document. This is a talk about the importance considering the context first - purpose, audience/readership, document structure, technology used to image the letters and so on. This is the first step in making a utility oriented process and is geared towards a more precise and narrow definition of the project brief.

13:00 
Document Project: 
Students break into 3-4-5 groups and examine documents to recognize their structure and to characterize both their typographic needs as well as to analyze the relative success or failure of the solution. Students are asked to characterize the properties of the type used and to imagine if what properties might improve the result and why. 

Break

14:00 
Ann asks the students about their ideas about what might be good for children. A record of the ideas is kept.

14:15  
Ann talks about her work and Sue Walkers work. The answers given are compared to this research to see if the ideas suggested are supported by research and to see which ones have not been addressed by research.

Break

15:00
Eben Sorkin Lecture: Recognition is the primary function responsible for speed in reading. Recognition also has its opposite: Crowding. An explanation of what crowding is is given and the experiment I am doing is presented.

15:45 

Crowding related studies are read and an informal experiment with crowding is conducted using a white or blackboard. 

END
 
SATURDAY

9:30 
Ann & Eben present additional research including new Microsoft research on word and letter spacing and letter features. The goal is to make the material accessible and to let student begin to imagine what kind of research they might like to conduct and to make it clear that they can use research to improve their type design process and to focus it. Examples of common practices in type design which have an empirical character will also be discussed.

Lunch Break

13:00  
Ann & Eben will each give talks on better defining legibility and readability. These talks are designed to help foster a critical awareness of what there terms mean.

13:30 
Q&A on legibility

Break

14:00 
Eben Sorkin: How to set deliberate priorities in your type design process to allow the work to be more efficiently, faster, and to better control the voice or feeling produced by your design. This lecture picks up where the lecture on utility leaves off and integrates the document discussions. 

14:30  
Discussion

Break 

15:00
A discussion on the power of using Multiple master technology to answer questions quickly and precisely is explained. Students with Fontlab may try a practical example.

END

SUNDAY

9:30
Ann lectures on typography for children with low vision and compares the different kind of low vision which exist.

Break 

10:45
An introduction to traditional optical adjustments and less discussed ones.  
A discussion of the way that recognition/crowding might interact with letter spacing and the potential that contextual shaping may have in enhancing recognition.

12:00  
Q&A Students are asked what they plan to do with the information.

END

3.07.2011

Ala ma fonta!
warsztaty projektowania krojów pism
przeznaczonych do publikacji dla dzieci


Typography for kids!
Typography workshop: designing typefaces for children's book
  
Akademia Sztuk Pięknych w Katowicach
Wydział Projektowy
Academy of Fine Arts in Katowice
Faculty of Design
ul. Koszarowa 19
asp.katowice.pl  


25 marca – 30 listopada 2011
z wyjątkiem lipca i sierpnia
w trybie trzydniowych sesji weekendowych raz w miesiącu
zajęcia prowadzone będą w języku angielskim
25th of March – 30th of November 2011
3-day weekend workshop once a month (except July and August)


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25–27 marca 
Obszary i zakres badań naukowych w dziedzinie typografii dla publikacji dziecięcej
Fields and methods of research in contemporary typography for children's publication
Anne Bessemans + Eben Sorkin


15–17 kwietnia
Projektowanie fontów dla dzieci. Praktyka.
Designing fonts for children's publication. Practice
Anne Bessemans + Martin Majoor


13–15 maja
Projektowanie fontów dla dzieci. Praktyka – zastosowanie programu Fontlab
Designing and digitalizing fonts for children's publication. Practice in Fontlab
Martin Majoor + Filip Blažek


10–12 czerwca
Projektowanie fontów dla dzieci. Praktyka – zastosowanie programu Fontlab
Postprodukcja – techniki digitalizacji – Filip Blažek
Rysowanie w Fontlabie przydatne skróty i triki – Marian Misiak
Marian Misiak dodatkowo prezentuje plon swojej wyprawy do Jordanii: „Książki dla dzieci, w języku arabskim. Ze zbiorów kolekcjonera. Dokument”.
Designing and digitalizing fonts for children's publication. 
Practice in Fonlab
Techniques and postproduction in Fontlab – Filip Blažek
Drawing in FontLab; useful tricks – Marian Misiak
Additionally, Marian Misiak will present the documentary on Arabic children's books from a collector he met in Jordan. 
Filip Blažek + Marian Misiak




przerwa wakacyjna / summer break




wrzesień
Projektowanie fontów dla dzieci. Praktyka – zastosowanie programu Fontlab
Designing and digitalizing fonts for children's publication. Practice in Fonlab
Marian Misiak + Martin Majoor


październik
Projektowanie fontów dla dzieci. Praktyka – zastosowanie programu Fontlab
Designing and digitalizing fonts for children's publication. Practice in Fonlab
Marian Misiak + Filip Blažek


listopad
Projektowanie fontów dla dzieci. Podsumowanie.
Designing and digitalizing fonts for children's publication. Assessment 
Marian Misiak + Martin Majoor


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Zapraszamy do udziału w warsztatach nauczycieli akademickich i studentów zainteresowanych projektowaniem krojów tekstowych przeznaczonych dla najmłodszych czytelników.


Zgłoszenia przyjmujemy na podstawie ankiety i portfolio, które należy wysłać na adres:
ewasatalecka@ewasatalecka.a4.pl
do 15 marca 2011


16 marca 2011 komisja kwalifikacyjna w składzie:
Przewodnicząca – Dziekan Wydziału Projektowego – Justyna Lauer
dr Anna Machwic – Pracownia Projektowania Ilustracji i Publikacji Dziecięcej
dr Jacek Mrowczyk – Pracownia Typografii
dr Ewa Satalecka – kurator warsztatów


wybierze spośród nadesłanych zgłoszeń 10 osób ASP Katowice i 10 osób spoza naszej uczelni i 5 osobową grupę rezerwową.
Zainteresowanych powiadomimy do 17 marca 2011 drogą mailową o przyjęciu na warsztaty i terminach najbliższych zjazdów.
Koszt udziału w całym cyklu wynosi 550 PLN.
Pełną kwotę należy wpłacić na konto:


Prosimy zabrać ze sobą na pierwsze spotkanie kopię dowodu wpłaty.


Osoby odpowiedzialne, z którymi należy się kontaktować w razie pytań:
sprawy merytoryczno-programowe
kurator: Ewa Satalecka
ewasatalecka@ewasatalecka.a4.pl


Warsztaty dofinansowano z grantu MKiDN