Typography school training courses in Dover, DE (public, in-house or online)

The principal goal of typography is the assembly of text in a fashion that is both easy to read and visually engaging. This course examines the historical, aesthetic, and cultural development of typographic forms and fonts. Students will explore historical styles and theories of type design, letter forms and typographic layouts, and their influence on modern and contemporary typography. Students will study type mechanics using type in a variety of design applications.

In this course, students use their advance knowledge and creative skills in exploring and developing new typographic solutions in the visual design field. Students will use the design process to explore new typographical direction, methodology, application to express their intellectual and visual aesthetic knowledge. It is a comprehensive project where students can explores type as word-image art and by mixing typography, calligraphy and art and design concepts with industry standard software.
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Typography plays a major role in all graphic design, from use in still image creation to animated text in video and websites. After a series of typographic exercises, including an introduction to the major type families, letter forms, and type history, assignments are given that encourage an exploration of working with type for legibility and creative expression. Prerequisite: Introduction to Digital Design or Digital Page Layout & Design or instructor’s permission. Taught on the Macintosh ...

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This course provides the student with an understanding of how graphic design, advertising and marketing are used together to provide a client with effective visual communications to a specific target market. Elements of design, design philosophy, typography, marketing and color will be discussed in preparation for advertising campaign development.
Quarters Offered:
Autumn, Winter, Spring, Summer, (Distance Learning)
Credit Hours:
4 credit hours
Instructional Methods:
Lecture...

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This course develops an understanding of the structure and engineering of type within design, form line, paragraph, and page spreads. The use of headline and body copy will be covereed as well. The concern will be with compositional thinking through examination of visual media.