Type education
Hi Guys and Gals.
I was wondering what your thoughts are on type education. Has anyone done a masters degree in type design?
Thanks
Jim
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20.Sep.2004 1.55pm
and you do it very well, perhaps you could start a type identification board masters... hehehe...
20.Sep.2004 2.34pm
Yves,
Would that be "Swagger Light" or "Swagger Heavy"? Maybe that depends upon how many correct font IDs you've made lately :-)
ChrisL
20.Sep.2004 2.58pm
Hmmm
20.Sep.2004 5.58pm
>I already have a BFA, from RISD <
Dan,
My roomate in graduate school was Hans VanDyjk. I know he taught at RISD for a while after Tom Okerse. Was he there when you were?
ChrisL
21.Sep.2004 1.47am
Hans was your roommate? My, the world is small
21.Sep.2004 1.51am
Has anyone of you ever needed to show your diploma to get somewhere?
No. That is really sad (especially when you pay a lot of money - Balliol/Ruskin/Yale)
21.Sep.2004 3.42am
AFAIK The only two (western) places in which you can study type design in a postgraduate level are:
- KABK
http://just.letterror.com/ltrwiki/TypeMedia
http://www.kabk.nl/site/0405/index
- University of Reading
http://www.rdg.ac.uk/
21.Sep.2004 7.13am
I am sorry I do not have the time to get involved with this discussion here: partly because there are too many things I would have to say, on matters ranging from the rather general issue of value-added in postgraduate education in applied arts and humanities, to more mundane matters like planning of learning outcomes of MA-level programmes. But, apart from being busy preparing the torture chamber for the incoming group of students, I am also getting things ready for ATypI where we have a discrete type-education strand. So, if you make it to Prague do come at the panel talk, or corner me at a coffer break and I will be happy to chat.
21.Sep.2004 1.52pm
coffee break. coffee break!
20.Sep.2004 1.37pm
No.
But then again I don't design type.
I just swagger over at the Type Identification Board.
20.Sep.2004 2.48pm
The work that I have seen produced by those who have graduated from the MA Type Design course (under Gerry Leonidas) at the University of Reading is worth a look.
20.Sep.2004 3.16pm
Actually, this thread is making me wonder if my degree is
worth zilch* in the current situatioin of Art Education. It has
been completely overhauled in Belgium since "my days"
and is now called Bachelor and Master and so on.
* Mind you, I've never really needed it: usually at job
interviews the portfolio does the trick. Has anyone of you
ever needed to show your diploma to get somewhere?
I reckon that in the (typo)graphic design business it only
is of secondary importance.