After three typographic posters workshops at ECV Provence, I was invited to lead a type design workshop.
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The students designed a large family of fonts, intended to be used as headline typefaces in a magazine workshop later this year.
Each group of students was given a specific section or article of the future magazine (the group in charge of the cover chose PAVANE as the name of the magazine and designed its logotype).
They never had the opportunity to design outside Illustrator, to generate font files, etc., so I also quickly introduced them to RoboFont (thanks!), drawing and font production with a professional and dedicated software during the week.
And of course, at the end, it was essential to design and print a specimen to show the typefaces at their best.
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Dates: 24.09–28.09.2012
School: ECV Provence
Teacher: Emmanuel Rey
Software: RoboFont
Newspaper: 32×47 cm
Students: Ghjuvan Dumenicu Aletti, Marie Bechade, Rosalie Begalla, Romain Boyer, Valentin Breyne, Noémie Chardon Grenier, Jessica Cheix, Quentin Colle, Emmanuelle Drin, Céline Dubois, Clémentine Girardeau, Cyril Graziani, Alexandre Lanza, Clara Lapprand, Géraldine Moury, Elsa Pothin, Sonia Schlaeintzauer, Pierre-Antoine Teychene
Second year bachelor, second semester, type design curse, ECAL
Teaching by Ian Party.
Evaluation day, June 2012
Some iPhone pics taken at the masters exhibition at ECAL/University of art and design Lausanne: Art Direction: type design, photography.
Quick snapshots taken walking through the bachelor works at ECAL/University of art and design Lausanne, one day before the jury.
This year, I was invited for the 3rd time to lead a 5 days workshop for master students at ECV Provence.
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I asked the students to design a black/white DIN A1 poster. They had to use typography as the main tool to produce the visual (words are the image).
The headline had to be an original design or a modified font and to play with legibility: I wanted them to experiment and produce something else than consensual "typography on photography" posters or "big fonts on neutral background" minimalist designs.
The way they were authorized to use images was strictly defined: it had to bring something to the typographic layout.
The whole process of designing the poster and fonts was based on my own practise.
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Posters, in order of appearence:
01. Noémie Chardon, "Bitching, Jung Food, or the insurrection of trash design"
02. Ghjuvan Dumenicu Aletti, "The destructuring: the insurrection of mind"
03. Marie Bechade, "Esprit coupé: l'insurrection à la crème psycho-coco"
04. previous poster (detail)
05. Emmanuelle Drin, "Hitchcok, or the insurrection of birds"
06. Cyril Graziani, "Non discours, ou l'insurrection des maux"
07. Clara Lapprand, "Art, or the insurrection of drugs"
08. Jessica Cheix, "Elixir libre, ou l'insurrection des roses"
09. Elsa Pothin, "Green power, or the insurrection of new-clear"
10. previous poster (detail)
11. Alice Guiraud, "The attractive universe, or the insurrection of the scienti fic photography"
12. Géraldine Moury, "Pleure pas Lolie, ou l'insurrection absurde"
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Typefaces used/modified: Simplon BP, Romain BP, Suisse BP, SangBleu BP
