Why Type Camp?
Type Camp provides a creative, modern, collaborative education in typography and design. We provide flexible non-traditional learning all over the world in order to help you become a better designer, no matter where you are.
We have a passion for typography and design and we want to help you to learn more about them in a new way. Internationally renowned instructors with years of teaching experience and professional practice will help you achieve it. You’ll be with the best of the best, and that’s a promise.
At Type Camp, you will have a chance to learn in an environment that encourages freedom, experimentation, and camaraderie. You will be surrounded by people that have similar interests and goals and who respect your knowledge and experience.
During any Type Camp event, we aim to change the way you think about typography and design. We want you to learn it differently than you learned it school or at work. If you don’t learn it differently, you will never use it differently.
Type Camp will help you to see typography with new eyes, while you provide your own focus.
Who attends Type Camp?
People from 18 to 55 years old have attended Type Camp, from New Zealand, Norway, Australia, Hong Kong, India, Denmark, Scotland, Canada, and the USA. We’ve had professional designers from Ogilvy & Mather, Globo.com, Dreamworks, the Getty, Adobe, the Canadian Government, and more.
You don’t have to be a graphic designer or a typophile to attend Type Camp; we also have students and professionals from industries such as ceramics, illustration, textile design, web design, fine art, computer science, and animation.
Why invest in the Type Camp experience?
The world has plenty of graphic designers. They’re fine and they do fine work. But we don’t need more fine designers, we need more innovative designers, and we certainly need more knowledgeable ones. Typography is important; a necessity (just imagine your world without letters!). It’s not about your design and typography being adequate, it’s about them functioning well for the context and audience, and understanding how typography works is the key.
As Easton West, a former student of Shelley’s now living in Berlin and one of the original people that encouraged her to start Type Camp in 2007, said: ‘You can be a good graphic designer with good typography, but you’ll never be a great graphic designer without great typography.’ We think he was right.
Do you have to camp at Type Camp?
We use the word ‘camp’ to refer back to that time of your childhood where you were free to explore in a loosely structured environment. Type Camp currently offers three different learning structures, and none of them involve tents!
Cultural Immersion Learning
A residential experience that focuses on the cultural context of design and typography in different parts of the world. If you’re interested in this learning environment, check out:
Creative Residential Retreat
A residential experience in a rural setting that combines creative learning and training with a relaxing but stimulating retreat vacation. The following camps offer this experience:
Professional Urban Training
Workshops held during the day in a major city with various specific themes. These are often offered to local residents or students and may not include housing in order to keep prices down:
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