Professional workshop: Letters as shapes
[Nota importante: Si bien, Cyrus habla español, este taller será impartido en inglés. No habrá servicio de traducción.]
Description
Letters are traditionally thought about in terms of calligraphic strokes or marks. Letters can also be thought about in terms of shape. Type designer and graphic artist, Cyrus Highsmith, has developed a series of hands-on exercises that explore making and seeing shape-based letters. These methods can be applied to designing typefaces, adding new dimensions to a calligraphic practice, and even lead to different way of observing the world.
Required materials
The festival will provide most of the materials, but you are welcome to bring your own.
- Drawing paper
- Sketchbook
- Exacto knife
- Cutting mat
- Soft rubber brayer
- Ink pad
- Flat brush about .5”/13mm
- Black ink
- Black marker
Cyrus Highsmith
Cyrus Highsmith is a letter drawer, teacher, author, and graphic artist. He teaches type design at Rhode Island School of Design (RISD). He wrote and illustrated the acclaimed primer Inside Paragraphs: Typographic Fundamentals. In 2015, he received the Gerrit Noordzij Prize for extraordinary contributions to the fields of type design, typography, and type education. In 2017, he and his type foundry, Occupant Fonts, joined Morisawa.