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Help me please! About Typography Master Degree!
Posted by Gunarta in
7 May 2011 — 8:02am
7 May 2011 — 8:02am
im Indonesian.Im not rich and im not poor (im ordinary).
I love typography a lot. I want to learn typography much more. I want to go to university and there is no specific typography university in Indonesia even in Asia. But, it seems so hard to find the proper university that provide scholarship. I prefer to go to Netherlands, Germany, France, Italy, USA, Aus, and Other countries (except England and Japan -- coz the currency with IDR is extremely yaa.. you know)
I want your suggestion please... and please keep sharing if your are the one who studies in typography institute. All about typography institute in that mentioned countries.
Additional: What is the best Typography institute?
Thanks.
regard
Gunarta :)
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7 May 2011 — 9:16am
University of Reading, Great Britain.
http://www.typefacedesign.org/2010/
7 May 2011 — 9:33am
Type & Media Masters @ The Royal Academy of Art in The Hague
http://www.kabk.nl/ > http://www.kabk.nl/pageEN.php?id=0016
7 May 2011 — 10:51am
http://typophile.com/node/12011
7 May 2011 — 1:47pm
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_institutions_offering_type_design_e...
7 May 2011 — 2:12pm
@Gunarta: Are you interested specifically in type design?
8 May 2011 — 2:28am
@dean: of course, i love type design :D
8 May 2011 — 4:49am
any specific suggestion?
8 May 2011 — 12:21pm
eliason’s link is a good place to start.
I don’t know a lot about typeface design programs. I focus on how typography influences human performance such as reading comprehension. Before you decide where you want to spend your time and money, you really need to focus on your area of interest. Letterforms, history, technology, human performance… Who would you like to employ you, and for what, when you are complete?
Answer these questions and your choice will present itself.
11 May 2011 — 9:07am
i wanna be typographer. Build a typography school in Indonesia (coz there is no typography school in indonesia) or being lecturer in typography
11 May 2011 — 9:12am
If you wish to enter into academia, and be taken seriously, I suggest you work on your capitalization, punctuation and limit your use of slang when speaking publicly.
11 May 2011 — 11:27am
> Build a typography school in Indonesia
Awesome.
And/but what Christopher said.
hhp
11 May 2011 — 12:50pm
If you want to go into academia, you could also look at the PhD program at Reading. Generally speaking a PhD is a major edge in academic circles.
Cheers,
T
12 May 2011 — 10:53pm
@dean, sorry with my language. It just... umm.. School in Indonesia teach more US English than British English (and people more like to practice US Slang English, because its more popular and slang)
@hrant: People always talk that we must make the highest goal in this life. So i do :) and i wish that will be come true
@thomas: thanks, cheers :)
18 Apr 2012 — 11:56am
@Gunarta: If you are interested in starting a school, then you will require many skills. Sadly, the top of the list will most likely be business, management, and administration. Next, you will require knowledge of pedagogy (in an educational context). Rhetoric and semiotics can’t hurt either. THEN, you can start focusing on subject matter.
You need to ask yourself what do you want your school to teach? And you can’t answer “typography.” That’s about as broad as saying “art” which could mean:
painting
drawing
film
photography
sculpture
wood working
metal working
foundry
jewelry
holloware
textiles
fashion
sculpture
pottery
stone working
print making
screen printing
interactive media
performance
installation
interpretive dance
history…
Start small.
If you were to teach just one course at someone else’s school, what would it be?
22 Apr 2012 — 4:35pm
Gunarta, negative comments are not helpful, and comments about your punctuation and/or american slang are just useless to say anything that can give you a clue or a solution for your asks.
I'm a 20 years experienced designer, and I want to be a typographer too! yes.. what we want to do is to focus just in typography, so it's so valid to answer "just typography" if you have a previous bachelor degree. What I know is that the Reading University is one of the major schools for an MA in typography, but, as you said, The UK is not an option because.. well.. ya'know! so there are cheaper options but I'm affraid language could be a problem for you, there are a master in Barcelona, Spain and the other one is in Veracruz, Mexico, both of them in Spanish (in Barcelona could be sometimes in Catalan). Anyway, if you want to take a look around visit:
http://www.eina.edu/index.php?fuseaction=show-section&level=2&lang=es&id=43
http://www.ub.edu/web/ub/es/estudis/oferta_formativa/master_universitari...
and
http://www.cegestalt.com/portal/
I agree that what Christopher says is correct for those seeking a bachelor's degree, but what is concerning a master's degree I suggest him to make a little more research before commenting as severe.
22 Apr 2012 — 6:01pm
You misinterpret my tone through text. My comment is designed to guide a decision making process that is, at as of yet, unfocused. Consider it as a form or Socratic rhetoric, not condescension.
22 Apr 2012 — 6:36pm
The helpfulness of a comment -positive or negative- is a two-way street.
hhp
22 Apr 2012 — 10:38pm
Writing skills are important, but let's remember that English is a second language for Gunarta. I think we should cut him some slack.
23 Apr 2012 — 4:46am
A decision-making process that was, as of about a year ago, perhaps, unfocused . . .
You all do realize that this thread was almost a year old when some spammer raised it from its slumber a few days ago, and then Christopher chose to pick it back up, right?
23 Apr 2012 — 6:00am
Hey, don't ruin it for Marian - that was her first post ever! (And not at all bad for an opener.)
hhp