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Day one The students were to find a piece of ornament or type in the streets of your town, use this or parts of this ornament or type as the basis for a display typeface.
First part of the day was for research and photography, later the found pieces were printed. The potential of the finds were discussed. Things were kept open at this point, so open that the teams had no names.
Day two The students chose the design with which they'd continue and expanded this to form the alphabet. Most groups laid out a system of rules for their design.
Later that day they started digitizing their letters.
Day three Digitization and tweaking, the fonts were tested with individual words, some fonts even made alternate characters.
The fonts and groups were named during this phase, the naming of the baby is significant as this makes it all personal.
Day four Halfway through the day, the teams swapped fonts and made a psoter with one of the other teams typefaces. Most teams bend these rules a bit, which kind of made me happy, as the whole 'bend the rules' thing was an underlying theme to the entire workshop.
Day five Type specimens and posters were presented for evaluation by the principal and myself. The teams that had made the posters made comments about the fonts' usability and problems.
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