Lab Type Crit: For students and others

Lab Simulation: The Design Game

Are you coming the Typographics Conference? Your pass will give you access to the TypeLab at 31 Third Avenue from June 11 to June 15 where lots of nerdery will be taking place. First up will be Petr van Blokland’s Design Game, for which we need RSVPs and for you to really show up, so don’t sign up if you can’t be sure to come. There needs to be a minimum of participants for this to work. This is not open to the general public.
The Design Game is a simulation game of the design practice. In four rounds design studios compete with each other, solving design projects for different customers. It is a challenge to ask the right question, work within tight deadlines and create something that the customer needs. It is a game about word definition and developing strategies. Subscribe here.

Lab Portfolio time for type, typography and graphic design. For students.

You want to apply for art school, a job or start your own studio. Tips and tricks from “the old guys & girls”

Lab Lecture: Pizza at moon size

Lab Demo: Lettering the TypeLab windows

“TYPE” as huge letters on the windows: this is how it is done.

Lab Lecture: Short introduction to InDesign templates for the web

Lab Demo: Lettering

Lab Type Crit: For students and others

Have your type checked by the quality master of Font Bureau.

Lab Lecture: Introduction Processing for designers

An introduction to Processing. Some examples are worked out, source code is available. Take your own laptop. Download the Processing application in advance from processing.org

Lab Type Crit: For students and others

Crit by whoever of the type designers is at the Lab.

Lab Lecture: Publishing today and in the near future

Whoever wants to talk about this in public.

Lab Lecture: Introduction of TypeCooker sketching

Take drawing tools. And basic sketching skills. Have a look a typecooker.com in advance.

Lab Drawing: Preparing sketches for TypeCooker Crit

Take drawing tools. And basic sketching skills. Have a look a typecooker.com in advance.

Lab Lecture: How type and code became inseparable

Lab Type Crit: Curve clinique

Individual clinic/critique to help beginner type designers who are struggling with getting their curves right in a hands-on sort of way. Bring your work on your laptop.

Lab Demo: Calligraphy to order

Come get your name or whatever else written beautifully by the designer of Bickham Script, Sloop, Canto, and other wonderful script typefaces.

Lab Lecture: Using Github for Typeface Design

Lab Demo: InDesign Scripting

Designer and typographic consultant Kent Lew will be showing examples of some of the scripts he’s written for InDesign, from goofy gimmicks for his friends at Font Bureau to semi-automated workflows for publications.

Lab Type Crit: TypeCooker

You definitely should not miss this one.

Lab Lecture: Ketman responsive web type demo

Exploring the use of interpolation through a dynamic display typeface.

Lab Lecture: History of the Curve

Do you want to know about Quadratics vs Cubics? Why circles are not circles? Why drawing type relates to designing ships? How Ikarus worked? And why auto-conversion is so dangerous?

Lab Lecture: Visualizing the photons of spacing (or how we look at type)

Lab Portfolio time for type, typography and graphic design. For students.

You want to apply for art school, a job or start your own studio. Tips and tricks from “the old guys & girls”

Lab Interview: Webstandards and responsive typography

Interview with Jeffrey Zeldman

Lab Demo: Introduction Processing for designers

An introduction to Processing. Some examples are worked out, source code is available. Take your own laptop. Download the Processing application in advance from processing.org

Lab Lecture: The Early Roman Letter

We are in a sans serif age, and we trace it to the 19th century, but there was an earlier sans serif age from the sixth century BC to sometime in the 2nd century BC. This illustrated lecture will examine the letterforms from that time and trace the beginnings of serifs and the advent of thick and thin parts in Roman letterforms.

Lab Workshop: CSS for beginners

By Petr and by others who want to join and demo.
Bring your laptop.

Lab Lecture: Building small circuits to create custom hardware controllers for RoboFont

Lab Lecture: RoboFont tool UfoOverlay in Open Source

Lab Demo: Playing with Andy’s toys

Lab Workshop: Speed dating logos. As above but extended to other scripts

Lab Lecture: Typography for Editors

Lab Discussion: Typography for Editors

Lab Lecture: Font Management for Designers and Typographers

As creative professionals, we all love fonts. Whether we are creating them, or collecting them for use, having thousands of them on a machine can easily lead to a mess when trying to be productive.

Jim will show you how you can use a font manager to stay productive and keep your desktop clean and efficient.

Lab Workshop: Wordmark surgery

Bring your wordmark for a critique and hands on tips to make it better.

Lab Discussion: Hints on how to start a studio. A small scale discussion.

More of this during the free Lubalin Lecture on Monday June 15th, 6:30 PM.
Words: We use them for everything we make, including the body of this message. Yet, we know so little about them. Words. Where does meaning come from? Or betekenis? Or the eppnophonics of a story? Why is writing so hard and reading so easy? A lecture about the process of creation and the education of design. About the flow of language and the typography of text. About bullet lists and code. And what is likely to be the next etcetera.
Register here

Lab Lecture(s): Open Mic

We open the mic and projector to anyone with anything to share about type, typography, lettering, publishing, etc. Remote presentations are allowed – tweet to @TypographicsNYC if you want to link in via video chat.

Lab Open Equipment: Make your own buttons

Design, print, and press your own 1″ punk-style buttons! All the needed materials (including a color printer) will be available for all to use.

Lab Lecture: Responsive Typography Boilerplate

Nick Sherman will give a look under the hood of a very basic HTML file he’s set up to use as a starting point for all his responsive typography projects.

Free Lubalin Lecture: Words

We use them for everything we make, including the body of this message. Yet, we know so little about them. Words. Where does meaning come from? Or betekenis? Or the eppnophonics of a story? Why is writing so hard and reading so easy? A lecture about the process of creation and the education of design. About the flow of language and the typography of text. About bullet lists and code. And what is likely to be the next etcetera.
Register here