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TYPE DESIGN

Summer University to Bangkok

with Matthieu Cortat

Summer University to Bangkok with first year ECAL Master Type Design students.

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Sign painting workshop with Hélène Marian

with Hélène Marian

Analogue workshop led by type designer and letterer Hélène Marian with 1st and 2nd year students. A week of big-scale painted letterings, during which the students tamed the brush and invested space to its furthest limits. The tangible, finished space: that of the written surface, as well as the one in which they inscribed themselves, breaking the silence of the room with a stream of words traced and painted by hand.

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Wallace

with Kai Bernau

Wallace is a semester project by Gabriela Jaime and Pauline Heppeler, developed during the course “Tools Make Shapes”, led by Kai Bernau. “We worked with the metaphor of dancing and how our body behaves when it moves. This led to experimentation with two types of mechanisms; the first prototype followed the scissors logic, while the later one (and final) followed the compass logic. This typology of object allowed us to translate dance movements like spin and pivot, drag and drag across (sliding along the floor) onto an open typographical stroke and structure. It was important for us to show the coordination and movement of two that becomes one – hence we chose to maintain the final output as an open stroke typeface.”

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Labour Tool Product

with Julia Born

“Labour, Tool, Product” is an editorial project, self-initiated by Samira Schneuwly. The book explores the universal profession of farming, its evolution and the technologies and possibilities associated with it through carefully curated images from ETH Zürich’s online image archive and excerpts from her great-grandfather’s and grandfather’s inventory books.

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Yearbook

with Nejc Prah

In October 2021, the Master Type Design welcomed Nejc Prah for a one-week workshop. Being in a masters program is a special time, both personally and professionally. To keep a memory of it, the students were invited to create a Yearbook. First years and second years were assigned into pairs and asked to make a contribution about their partner. Drawings, collages, letterings, doodles, patterns, 3D-modelling, … Experimentations and explorations were encouraged. It resulted into a colourful and joyous publication, displaying a diversity of characters and approaches. After a collaborative effort for the production on the last day, each student got a copy, as a memory.

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Böcklin Zoo

with Karl Nawrot

Workshop with Karl Nawrot. Handpainted compositions inspired by the typeface Arnold Böcklin from Schriftgiesserei Otto Weisert (1904).

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All Over

with MATD, Job Wouters (Letman)

Workshop with Dutch designer Job Wouters.

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Workshop with studio NORM

with Dimitri Bruni (NORM), Manuel Krebs (NORM)

Workshop with Zürich based studio NORM on the theory, the design and the use of stencil typefaces.

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Typetitle, projet de semestre par Quentin Coulombier

with Kai Bernau

Typetitle is a condensed typeface designed for newspaper headlines which was inspired by American wooden type models.

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Inside-Out semester project by Dávid Molnár

with Radim Peško

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Didot Vafflard semester project by Dávid Molnár

with François Rappo

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Workshop with Thibault Brevet

with Thibault Brevet

Workshop with Thibault Brevet.

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Type Poster Workshop with Dafi Kühne

with Dafi Kühne, MATD

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Atlas of Letterforms, workshop with Radim Peško

with MATD, Radim Peško

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Sign Painting Workshop with Alaric Garner

with Alaric Garnier, MATD

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Type Bulletin #1

with MATD

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Modern Gothic, Semester Project by Malte Bentzen

with François Rappo