We had our first ever intermediate Copperplate lettering camp in Vancouver that focused just on gold and silver pigments. The idea came about in the introduction to Copperplate class that we had at Fluevog the previous year when students mentioned that the wanted to learn more of the techniques that Xandra... Continue Reading.
You wanted it again, so we offered it again, and it sold out again!
We did it! The Type Camp teaching team for AdobeMAX 2015 created an amazing day with 80 attendees at the LA Convention Center. The morning started with James instructing everyone on the intricacies of the ‘casual sign painter’s capital’ letterforms. It didn’t take long to figure out a few glyphs and then after a... Continue Reading.
Our first ‘First Friday Type Camp at Adobe’ of the autumn season! The campers spent the morning figuring out the tool itself, and how to swivel and curve it to achieve a basic italic letterform. After lunch they made their own versions and adjusted them to better suit their own lettering styles... Continue Reading.
Our first Type Camp in LA was one of our most fun ever. We were in the new Book Arts LA space located in Culver City, and will certainly be back there next year. It was a small camp, so we were able to spend a lot of time discussing ideas... Continue Reading.
We always love returning to Fluevog and it was a pleasure to offer one of our newest offerings, parallel pen with Xandra Zamora. We learned blackletter in the morning and then sans-serif casual capitals in the afternoon – but that wasn’t the exciting part . . . this was the... Continue Reading.
This post was written by one of our new instructors, Chris Rouleau.
On Friday, May 15, I joined master calligrapher Xandra Zamora at the Type Directors Club in New York City to teach a Pointed Pen workshop for Type Camp. This was my second time visiting... Continue Reading.
Our first Urban workshop at the NYC Type Directors Club was a great success! We sold out our Friday class with a variety of attendees – some were Creative Directors looking to try their hand lettering (instead of farming it out), art directors wanting to revive their creative juices, alumni... Continue Reading.
We were fortunate to hold a second camp at the Adobe building in San Francisco where Xandra helped campers to learn two different parallel pen styles, Blackletter and Neuland. We had two campers from the previous Friday workshop rejoin us as students, and in a great example of how Type Camp... Continue Reading.
Due to so much interest in our Type Drawing and Selection class with Stephen & Alex, we created two additional Saturday classes at the incredible Letterform Archive in Potrero Hill. To be able to discuss all aspects of typography while surrounded by centuries (and millenia!) of typographic... Continue Reading.
