In this two-week workshop you’ll explore old alphabets, print them via letterpress, analyse and revive them to achieve computer-ready fonts with Bill Moran and Riccardo Olocco.
Workshop: The Art of Alphabet in Northern Italy
Monday 12 June – Friday 23 June, 2023
09:30–17:00
The Italian landscape is full of exotic characters. Some are 2000-year-old classics, others are 20th century newbies. Some hide in plain view and others require a dedicated search. Join Tipoteca Italiana for a typographic excavation and digital revival of letters from the streets of Venice, inscriptions in Milan and their own collection of Art Nouveau and Art Deco wood and metal typefaces. In this two-week workshop you’ll explore old alphabets, print them via letterpress, analyse and revive them to achieve computer-ready fonts. Type historians and designers Bill Moran and Riccardo Olocco will be your guides on this alphabetic excursion as you unearth and refresh the best of Italian lettering and typography.
TipoItalia23 encourages learners to see the alphabet in its myriad forms and trace their evolution to the type collection held by Tipoteca. This program fosters a “typographic archaeology” that can then be translated into digital type allowing the participant to bring Italian typography to their desktop computer.
Where?
Tipoteca Italiana
Via Canapificio 3
Cornuda, Treviso
Who?
Bill Moran
Riccardo Olocco
For Whom?
Tipoteca Italiana offers a program of this format to attract educators, designers and type lovers to increase awareness of the rich typographic legacy in the Veneto as well as the museum’s collection and cultural offerings. Experience with letterpress is helpful but not necessary.
How Much?
USD 1890.00
Language
English
Prerequisites
All participants must bring a laptop with a version the Glyphs software loaded. Please be sure to load and test the software before you arrive.
Registration
To register or for furter information, please email to workshop at tipoteca period it.
