Type in Action: Multimedia Typography

3 units

Typography is a medium that can carry meaningful and complex communicative weight, and it affords designers with endless opportunities to engage others and to invite interpretation. In this form-making course rooted in typography, students will seek to manipulate and enact letterforms to create projects that communicate narrative in new and inventive ways -- breaking rules, scaling things up, using a range of materials, and making things move. Projects will span a range of formats, with the course serving as a catalyst for investigation of the myriad ways that letterforms, typography, and language can function as a provocative, interaction, platform, installation, image, and more. An openness to materiality, play, and experimentation is essential.