Wed., Feb. 02 – Wed., Feb. 23, 2022
6:30PM – 9:30PM (EDT) Convert to your local time zone location: Online
An in-depth crash course into typography for beginners. If you've been drawn to work with text but didn't know where to start, then this is the workshop for you. Learn the foundational basics of typography in this four-evening workshop. The workshop will be a blend of theoretical principles and direct practical applications of those theories. The history, formal elements, and the practice of typography will all be explored. Students learn to make informed decisions about typefaces to be able to craft elegant typography. Topics covered will be: Type Selection; Setting Words, Lines & Blocks of Text; Typographic Grids; Establishing Typographic Hierarchy. The course will include a series of simple weekly assignments. This workshop is aimed at people unfamiliar with typography. No experience is necessary.
4 Wednesday evenings (Eastern US) online.
A link to join the Zoom meetings will be emailed to enrolled students a day or two before the first session.
Class size will be limited to 14 student to insure plenty of one on one feedback during the course.
Registration for this workshop will open at 10:00 am on January 4, 2022. For updates and reminders about Type@Cooper offerings and events, please join our mailing list.
- A computer with advanced page-layout software installed, preferably Adobe InDesign
Required Materials
4 Wednesday evenings (Eastern US) online.
A link to join the Zoom meetings will be emailed to enrolled students a day or two before the first session.
Class size will be limited to 14 student to insure plenty of one on one feedback during the course.
Registration for this workshop will open at 10:00 am on January 4, 2022. For updates and reminders about Type@Cooper offerings and events, please join our mailing list.
Instructor:
Alexander Tochilovsky
Alexander Tochilovsky is a graphic designer, typographer, curator and educator, with nearly 20 years of professional design experience, and 10 years experience teaching typography. He graduated with a BFA from The Cooper Union, and holds an MFA from Cranbrook Academy of Art. He is currently the Curator of the Herb Lubalin Study Center of Design and Typography. In 2009 he co-curated the exhibition Lubalin Now, and since 2010 he has curated five other exhibitions: Appetite (2010), Pharma (2011), Type@Cooper (2012), Image of the Studio (2013), & Thirty (2015). Since 2007 he has taught typography and design at the Cooper Union School of Art, and also teaches the history of typeface design at Type@Cooper, the postgraduate certificate program he co-founded in 2010.
• Herb Lubalin Study Center
• Herb Lubalin Study Center