Type Camp Rome
1–8 May 2011 Camp is cancelled
We've had to cancel the Rome camp for this year due to lack of registrants. Please consider Type Camp India as an alternative.
Enjoy Italy in the spring experiencing Rome’s typographic treasures with the experts. Type Camp Rome features seven days of walks around the city examining the Imperial letterform and the Renaissance and more recent results. We’ll visit the epigraphy collection at the Vatican, investigate early burial tombs and hidden churches, make rubbings on 2000 year-old lettering, examine different scripts from ancient times, and much more. As a camper, you will be able to enjoy everything that Bella Roma has to offer from sipping prosecco at the end of the sunny days to celebrating our final night with a festive Roman feast. We guarantee that you’ll never look at letterforms (or Rome!) the same way after this camp.
The Type Camp Rome 2011 teaching team is beloved Professor from the famed Department of Typography at The University of Reading and all-around renaissance-man, Martin Andrews and founder of Type Camp and international typography instructor, Dr Shelley Gruendler.
$2790
includes all admissions, art supplies, housing, breakfast, final evening meal, (note: lunch and dinner is not covered by the fee).
Itenerary (in brief)
Day 1, Sunday 1 May
- Visit the most colorful street market in Rome
- Experience the architecture of Michelangelo
- Investigate the remains of an ancient Roman apartment house
- Examine the inscription of the ‘wrong’ statue
Day 2 Monday 2 May
- Stroll along the oldest surviving Roman bridge with Republican inscriptions
- See the Triumphal Arch that actually rewrote history
- Hike the hill that helped to name one of the most used typefaces of the modern era
- Tour the ultimate public building with the perfect orders of architecture
Day 3, Tuesday 3 May
- Experience baroque lettering in one of the oldest churches in Rome
- Witness original large-scale gothic letters in-situ
- Explore a Mithraic temple inside a medieval basilica
Day 4, Wednesday 4 May
- Stroll the finest 16th-century street in Rome
- Touch the treasures of the epigraphy collection in the Vatican Gallery
- See an ‘Horfeian’ inscription on a truly ancient artifact
- Witness a truly ‘Sistine’ letter on stolen Forum stone
- Experience what many consider the finest display lettering of its kind (hint: it’s not Trajan’s Column!)
- Hang out in bohemian Rome while viewing early Christian inscriptions
Day 5, Thursday 5 May
- Surround yourself for a day with the best inscription collection in the world
Day 6, Friday 6 May
- See where Arrighi, Cresci, and Palatino worked
- Understand the theory behind the ‘Rivers’ fountain
- Meander through 16th-century cloisters filled with inscriptions
- View the 19th-century restoration that everyone gets wrong but everyone loves anyway
- Experience an optical illusion – baroque style.
- See the famous column that inspires every movie poster
Day 7, Saturday 7 May
- Explore ‘down under’ Rome
- Feast the Roman way
Day 8, Sunday 8 May
- Say 'arrividerci' to bella Roma!
Please note that this fee does not include your transportation to and from the camp.
Limit 16 campers.
Cost: $2790. You can pay in full, or pay by deposit and balance.
- PAY IN FULL
$2790
This covers all housing,
food, scheduled transportation during
the camp, and all art and design supplies.
- Deposit
$1000
Your deposit reserves a spot for you at this camp.
- Balance
$1790
Your balance is due by 30 March 2011.
After making your payment, please complete your registration by filling out this form and return the completed form by email.
Have some questions? Contact us or see the FAQ page for more information.