The Australian Type Foundry launches handlettering workshop in Syd and Bris, type design course in Syd + TypeCamp in Melb in 2013
The Australian Typo Foundry has announced new events on its 2013 design calendar with the Handlettering Workshop based in Sydney and Brisbane in February, the Type Design Course located in Sydney during April and lastly TypeCamp Australia which will run for 5 days in February in Melbourne.
Handlettering Workshops in Sydney and Brisbane
The Australian Type Foundry’s popular Type By Hand workshops will launch in Sydney and Brisbane in February 2013. Taught by typographers Wayne Thompson and Gemma O’Brien, these workshops take people into the world of handlettering, with aim of helping them improve their 
typographic skills.
Type Design Course in Sydney
The Type Design Course will teach participants how to design their own typefaces and introduce them on where and how to start.
TypeCamp Australia in Melbourne
This high-quality international tutorial camp is for people serious about typography. 5 days of typographic immersion helping people rediscover creativity in their typography.
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Great idea. Let’s hope some of the other old advertising crafts are revived, like writing engaging and entertaining advertising.
Oh, and while you’re at it, try teaching a few art directors how to draw.
Razor, “Old advertising craft”. WTF. Typography is a cornerstone of great art direction. Maybe this country has lost it, but not OS. Still great type coming out of the UK.
Unfortunately anyone with InDesign now thinks they’re a typo. That is the problem.
Well said Rod!. Remember when anyone with a Mac thought they were a designer? Set the business back 20 years…
I broke my arm and they set it in Franklin Gothic.
@Razor
A good Art Director doesn’t need to draw.
No Jim, a good art director doesn’t NEED to draw, it just makes communicating what he’s talking about that much easier.
‘Spose a riter don’t need no grammer either…
@Razor
Get over yourself. If you can’t communicate it verbally, you not doing your job right.
Teleport: Copout.
Razor: Really?
Different brushstrokes for different folks, I suppose.
Remember, even a constipated math tutor has to work it out with a pencil.
Surely there’s an app to do this sort of thing, really hand lettering?
Ship Chandler said:
I broke my arm and they set it in Franklin Gothic.
November 27, 2012 1:56 PM
As Norman May would say, “Gold, Gold, Gold!”
I love old advertising craft. Like back when all headlines were set like this:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/ameiss/3436689112/
Fuck off razor 🙂
“A good Art Director doesn’t need to draw!” — “he doesn’t need to know how to design either” You gotta have a beard tho– no beard, no entry sorry — unless you’re a chick in that case a beard might be a bit awkward. Oh i just remembered there are no good female art director so the beard rule is still in play.
Just kidding ladies, we all know those libra pads ads don’t write themselves 😀