Category: Education
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Two nights in Jaipur
Sunday, May 18 I woke up on Sunday morning around 5am and took a 6:10 express train to Jaipur. This only took a few hours. I reserved a seat in an air conditioned car, and the experience was better than I expected. My car was only about half full, and the seats have more than…
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In Delhi, part two
Friday, May 16 This morning I went to the National Museum of India. This was a pleasant visit; the museum has a lot of sculpture from throughout India’s historical eras. Back in my second semester art history survey, we quickly tried to cover the bases of of Indian art; various other art museums I’ve visited…
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In Delhi, part one
Wednesday, May 14 My flight left Heathrow in the morning, quite early. I flew with Air France to Paris, and then switched planes to fly to Delhi. While I was waiting in the terminal in London, I went online at one of those pay-as-you-go Internet terminals. They also had sites that you could surf for…
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Workshops: John Hudson, Tom Milo
Following a series of Non-Latin workshops conducted earlier in the year by Fiona Ross, we added two further notches to our belts earlier in the month. Our fist visitor was John Hudson, who was followed by Thomas Milo and Mirjam Somers from DecoType. John conducted a script workshop. Not only do we dive into Non-Latin…
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Type through the Low Countries
Last week, the MA typeface design students spend a few days roaming through the Low Countries. This was a great trip, and Flickr is already bursting with photos (for more links, go to the bottom of this post). On Sunday, April 20th, I arrival in Amsterdam and checked in the Times Hotel. That’s right, it…
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Indian newspaper search, part three
Since my last two entries on Indian newspapers (On the hunt in London for Indian newspapers, and Indian newspaper search, part two) I’ve now started building up a nice, small collection of 11 Hindi titles. And after a few months of uncertainly, I’m now planning a trip India for later on this month. Today I…
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Update: Devanagari in progress
My practical brief in Reading calls for a typeface family with a Latin and Devanagari component. I’ve certainly spent more time to date on the Latin so far. I try to justify this to myself by remembering that my brief also calls for italic and bold companions for the Latin’s regular, while the Devanagari will…
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New laser printer installed
So far, so good: My new HP LaserJet P2015. Proofing your typeface at home is a giddily selfish pleasure. In Reading, I inherited my own laser printer from two of the nicest Midwestern typeface designers. While I prefer to work in the MATD studio at the University rather that alone at home, it is a…
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Catching up after the FDK
It has been about six weeks since I last posted anything here, and quite a bit has happened since the Miguel Sousa workshop at the end of February. After Miguel tried to fill our minds with the importance and usefulness of the Terminal, command line inputs, and the AFDKO, life continued in Reading as normal.…
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Miguel makes my brain hurt, but in a good way
This week, Adobe’s Miguel Sousa is here at Reading. Miguel is an MATD alumnus, and he’s offering a whirlwind introduction to the Adobe Font Developer Kit for OpenType (AFDKO). It seems that he spent the previous week giving a similar workshop in The Hague. I’m sure that most readers are already familiar with these tools,…
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On the terror of glyphs and the joy of reading
What is it like to be a typeface design student? It is both wonderful and wonderfully depressing. You can—and will—spend days looking at a few letters, knowing that their design is bad. They are neither what you had intended nor even what you had managed to to capture fleetingly in a quick sketch (this is…
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Indian newspaper search, part two
My first stop was Southall, a part of London to the west; perhaps halfway between Heathrow Airport and Paddington Station. The slowest trains departing Reading for London stop there. Rob, Yvonne, and some of my loyal readers had all recommended that I pay this neighborhood a visit, and it was definitely worth it. The area…
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Greek Week ’08, day one
Today, our “Greek Week” began. For the next few days, we’ll be drawing Greek letters, and trying to understand how and why they fit together the way they do. By Friday, we should even be digital; it’s Tuesday night, and that still seems a long way away. “Greek Week” seems to be something of a…
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Type students are multi-taskers
This image is from Joke’s blog. Please focus only on the French acrobat in the background. I try not to link too often to content on my fellow students’ blogs, as I’m sure that most TypeOff. readers are familiar with them anyway. But this image from Joke’s recent post is just brilliant… and it shows…
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