Type Camp Bloggin’

Category
Past Camps

Date
April 28, 2013

Author
Shelley

A very successful shoes ‘n scripts!

Our first ever 1-day Type Camp workshops in Vancouver were a huge success!

TC_VAN_04

After our Saturday 20 April workshop sold out in an astonishingly quick 6 hours, we scheduled another one for Sunday, and that one filled, too.

TC_VAN_06

TC_VAN_14

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Thank you to all of those who came, ready to try something different in your typographic learning. There was laughter in the air and a wonderful collegial attitude, even for a weekend morning! We drew each others’ names, practiced our ‘carrots’, and totally drooled when watching Laura do her demos.

TC_VAN_09TC_VAN_05

 

 

 

 

 

Quite a few of the attendees had been watching … continue reading

Category
Where's Shelley?

Date
April 11, 2013

Author
Shelley

Category
Uncategorized

Date
March 4, 2013

Author
Shelley

the future is now the present

At Type Camp Australia just over a year ago, we all wrote letters to ourselves for 12 months in the future. I wish this idea was mine, but it isn’t. It’s from when my (wonderful) Girl Scout Troop did Outward Bound in North Carolina in 1990, the summer after high school graduation and before we all went to college. That letter was only for 6 months away, but it was perfectly poignant.

A few days ago, I sent off everyone’s letters from that Australia camp – I never read them of course! I opened and read my own today. Surprisingly, it seems to communicate nearly everything that I’m trying to achieve with Type Camp. Although not entirely obvious, it actually says a lot about my time in Melbourne with everyone. It was a great camp with fantastic people and really helped to solidify just where the business was going … continue reading

Category
Type Camp News

Date
February 22, 2013

Author
Shelley

Welcome to the team!

Type Camp is all about different perspectives and we aim for our teaching team to reflect it. We select international experts, that also happen to be experienced instructors, for all of our camps around the world. We guarantee that you’ll be around someone who knows their stuff, but also someone who will be around to guide you in the future (and someone that would be happy to share a beer with you after the workshop).

As an expansion of our hand lettering team, we are pleased to announce Laura Worthington, a Seattle-based script type designer who will lead the upcoming Vancouver workshops, and Neil Summerour, a professional calligrapher and type designer from Atlanta, who will lead the Japan camp in May.

Welcome to the Type Camp family, Laura & Neil!

Category
Type Camp News

Date
February 18, 2013

Author
Shelley

Calligraphy & udon noodles

We’re happy to announce our first ever Type Camp in Japan! We will be in Takamatsu on Shikoku Island, just across the water from Osaka and far away from the hubub of Tokyo. This is the land of the awesome Udon but while we’re there, it will be the land of the awesome typography. Join Shelley and Neil Summerour, expert calligrapher, for a week of multi-lingual typographic creativity . . . and udon!

Category
Where's Shelley?

Date
January 16, 2013

Author
Shelley

me + EYE = wow

eye_tweet2

My 20 year old dream (that’s 20 years old and I made it when I was 20) came true yet again, twice in two weeks.

Today, I was published on the EYE Magazine blog. Click here for the article.

I didn’t even realise it was up until I saw the tweets that EYE sent out: eye_tweet

It’s so easy in this field, or any other research-y/design-y one, I suppose, to never feel smart enough and to always compare yourself to the superstars. (Having Marian Bantjes as a friend doesn’t help so much, either!) I try not to compare myself to others and know that I would never want to be, nor could I be, a design rockstar. Besides, nobody gets excited about a typography teacher — fame and fortune … continue reading

Category
Where's Shelley?

Date
January 11, 2013

Author
Shelley

Those clever graduate students!

My time with the Simon Fraser University Masters of Publishing students last week went very well. The talk was on magazine design of the 20th century. Note that these students weren’t designers – they would be going into all aspects of the publishing industry, including books, digital media, etc.

I showed slides from recent stuff, such as Wired, Real Simple, and The Walrus and brought in original copies of the Ladies Home Journal (1904), The Spectator (c. 1760), and RayGun (1993). I did talk a bit about the magazine design era in the USA from the 1930s to the 1960s, but I was running out of time so I had to leave out big chunks about Brodovitch & Agha & Pineles. Oh well, at least there’s great books on them!

However, my favourite part (and if you’ve been in any one of my classes, you know that I totally love … continue reading

Category
Where's Shelley?

Date
January 7, 2013

Author
Shelley

Show & Tell at SFU

On Thursday 10 January, I will teach a seminar to the Masters of Publishing students at Simon Fraser University in Vancouver. It is primarily about 20th century magazine design, but will also cover some historical issues and theory and audience concerns.

Of course I’m bringing loads of my collection to share: copies of RayGun, the 18th century magazine The Spectator, Blueprint (the Martha Stewart one, not the architecture one), The Illustrated London News, and more. I love show and tell!

Category
Type This & That
Where's Shelley?

Date
January 4, 2013

Author
Shelley

My name in 8 point type.

A lifetime dream was just achieved. It might not be all that exciting, but let me tell you, it most certainly is to me.

I remember when I first saw a copy of EYE magazine. It was some time in the autumn of 1991. I was nineteen years old and in my second year of design school in North Carolina. My (only) wonderful typography instructor Austen Lowrey showed it to us and remarked on its importance in the field and its exceptional quality.

We were stunned – here was a magazine that was all about what we were studying! I think that we were just so used to being a minority, whether as in the Design school of a 50,000+ University, or even being graphic designers in that same Design school that was dominated by architects. At any rate, here was … continue reading

Category
Past Camps
Type Camp News

Date
December 25, 2012

Author
Shelley

Thank you, 2012!

Thank you to all of the wonderful Type Camp participants from 2012!

We laughed in Melbourne, we relaxed in California, we explored in Germany, and we created in Brazil. You campers constantly amazed me, at every camp, in every way. It was an excellent year, so thanks to all of you campers and instructors.

An equally big thank you to the team behind the new website, both front and back end, and to all the supporters of Type Camp.

It’s been a great year and 2013 looks to be even better!