Crafting Type

03/02/2023

Announcing a SPECIAL GUEST giving critique/feedback at the end of day 2 of our upcoming Crafting Type (http://craftingtype.com/) workshop in Melbourne Mar 24–26: acclaimed type designer Paul D. Hunt from Adobe!

Paul has an MA in typeface design, started with P22 in ’04, and has been at Adobe since ’09. He’s the designer of Source Sans, Source Code, & Adobe Gurmukhi. Paul has designed fonts for Latin, Greek, Cyrillic, Devanagari and Gurmukhi, and is also involved with emoji standards! (Source Sans is currently the 10th most popular of the 1493 families on Google Fonts.)

This three-day workshop is taught by Thomas Phinney (Adobe, FontLab, currently making fonts for Google) and Wayne Thompson (Australian Type Foundry), and hosted by/at the socially innovative design firm Portable.

02/25/2023

Early bird 15% discount extended to Feb 28 for Crafting Type Melbourne, Australia, March 24–26! Learn how to make fonts in three intense, fun days at with me and Wayne (Australian Type Foundry) Thompson, hosted by Portable (https://portable.com.au/). Learn more and register now at http://craftingtype.com/
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(Photo: real student work created at Crafting Type!)

01/29/2023

Crafting Type: our intro type design workshop is coming to Australia for the first time! Learn how to make fonts in Melbourne, March 24–26, 2023 with Thomas Phinney, http://craftingtype.com/ -tp) and Wayne Thompson (Australian Type Foundry). Hosted by socially AND otherwise awesome design firm Portable.

About Crafting Type: http://craftingtype.com/

Workshop registration: http://craftingtype.com/2023/register-2023-03-melbourne.html

Crafting Type workshops teach font design beginners how to create their own original typefaces. No matter how little experience you may have with typography, we will put you on the path to mastery. The only requirement is a love of letters and a laptop!

11/03/2022

Extended! LAST DAY for early bird discount! Register now for Crafting Type Dublin 2022 intro type (font) design workshop with me and Max Phillips (Signal Type).
http://craftingtype.com/2022/register-2022-11-dublin.html
(picture in previous post is from 2013 Crafting Type Dublin workshop, me at left—amazing what people can do in just three days!) Hosted by our friends at TU Dublin School of Art and Design TU Dublin School Of Media

This form allows you to register for the upcoming Crafting Type introductory type design workshop in Dublin, part of Design Week Ireland 2022.

10/28/2022

Beginners type design workshop returns to Dublin at TU Dublin Grangegorman, Nov 17–19
REGISTER NOW: Early bird 15% off until October 31st!
Lead instructor Thomas Phinney (Adobe, FontLab, Material Symbols) + special guest Max Phillips (Signal Type Foundry).
http://craftingtype.com/
http://www.craftingtype.com/ -tp

10/12/2022

Crafting Type is back—in Dublin! REGISTER NOW http://craftingtype.com/ for intro type design workshops Nov 17–19, 2022, at Technological University Dublin Grangegorman campus, hosted by the School of Media (https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100063545531795) and TUDublin School of Art and Design. Organizational partner Typography Ireland. Instructors Thomas Phinney (Adobe, FontLab, Google Symbols) and Max Phillips (Signal Type Foundry).

Ireland's oldest and largest school of media, located on all three campuses of TU Dublin

09/27/2022

Watch this space for a likely upcoming announcement about a Crafting Type in Ireland, sooner than you think!

09/15/2019

Wonderful 3 days in Singapore

07/15/2019

Early bird tickets end 25th July and they’re snapping up fast! Early bird prices are SGD330 (Student) and SGD630 (Professional). Workshop is limited to 20 pax. Sign up on our page and secure your place ☻

07/15/2019

03/30/2017

Sign up now! Early bird discount ends April 15! Crafting Type returns to Seattle May 19-21, in a great downtown space with School of Visual Concepts.
http://craftingtype.com/ https://www.tug.org/craftingtype/register-2017-05-seattle.html

Crafting Type workshops teach font design beginners how to create their own original typefaces. No matter how little experience you may have with typography, we will put you on the path to mastery. The only requirement is a love of letters and a laptop!

01/16/2017

Great new type review blog series!

Fontribute Review of the Fonts Mislab by Typofonderie and Jubliat by Darden Studio