Title: 'Typography is Poetry'
A workshop by Prof. Kumkum Nadig
Dean and Senior Faculty, Srishti Manipal Institute of Art, Design & Technology, Bengaluru, India


Abstract:

We all see letter forms and immediately experience feelings, ideas, thoughts and reactions. Typography is more than a functional and utilitarian tool at the service of language.

Typography can visually capture meaning to make words sing, flow, fly, dance, rupture, split and emote.

The workshop is a fun and engaging collaborative activity where participants will create a very short typographic story/poem by stringing various words together and illustrating them to make the story/poem visually appealing. Participants could be playfully deconstructing classic fonts to enhance meaning and emote typography or create reinterpretations of typographic forms to create imaginative and unusual visual forms.

Materials/ tools to be brought by student participants:
Scissors, Cutter, Steel Ruler, Glue, Markers, Sketch Pens, Poster Colours (White, Black and any 4 other colours), Paint Brushes, Black Ink and large calligraphic pen tools / large flat brushes.

Materials provided by Typoday:
Black Cartridge Paper A3 size: 10 sheets
White Cartridge Paper A3 size: 10 sheets

Printouts of the typefaces

Participants will need access to a Photocopier

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