Type Camp California
10–15 June 2012, Templeton, California
If you’re burned out from work, want to learn more about type, or just need a relaxing vacation with other Typophiles, then this camp is for you!
Type Camp California will help you rediscover your creativity in typography. All learning takes place over six days by means of differing and convergent approaches to letterforms and type use in discussions, lessons, and workshops. World-reknowned instructors will share their professional processes and typographic knowledge with you to help you to become a better typographer and a better designer. We’ll cover the new webfonts technology, the secret to typeface selection, visual cues in typographic structure, letterform anatomy, non-Latin typography, and even our own typesetting secrets. We’ll also spend two inky afternoons at the delightful Shakespeare Press Museum — a working printing house filled with historical type and presses. It’s in the heart of the California Polytechnic State University campus and demonstrates how the historical can reside with the digital.
By day, we’ll have typography workshops and by evening, we’ll stroll through the rolling hills of California wine-country and even visit a vineyard or two. All meals will be prepared by our beloved Chef Linda and will feature fresh local ingredients. This camp will be held at the lovely 100 acre Dancing Deer Farm in Templeton near San Luis Obispo, California. The resort is close to the coast and is approximately 3 hours drive from either San Francisco or Los Angeles.
The teaching team for Type Camp California 2011 is head of www.typographica.org and former FontShop Type Director, Stephen Coles; the genius typographic expert ‘TypeGirl’, Tiffany Wardle; Brazilian lettering artist and type designer, Marina Chaccur; and Type Camp founder and international typography educator and writer, Dr Shelley Gruendler; and a visit from type designer for Apple, Antonio Cavedoni.
This covers all housing,food, scheduled transportation during the camp, and all art and design supplies.
- PAY IN FULL $2390
