How Letterforms & Typefaces Change the World
Shelley, along with her type friends John Hudson and Kevin Larson, will attempt to answer this question, or at least be mildly entertaining, in a panel discussion at the Getty Museum in Los Angeles, California.
7pm Wednesday 27 February 2019
This event is... Continue Reading.
Come see Shelley talk about ephemera, one of her favorite subjects, at the Tenderloin Museum in central San Francisco. The event centers around their current exhibition on matchbooks and also features the loved Type Camp Neon contributors Randall and Al of SF Neon talking about the signs of... Continue Reading.
Mark Oatis made this film to demonstrate how he created the amazing Type Camp Vegas sign. (Have you signed up yet here? Well hurry up and do it!) When you come to this Type Camp, you’ll learn from Mark & Patrick how to create hand painted lettering... Continue Reading.
Type Camp filmmaker and family member Daria Lanz made a series of films about her experiences at this camp, rather than just being behind the camera during all the fun. They are fabulous and all of us would bug her every day about the next installment, because that’s... Continue Reading.
The people of Ibaraki prefecture were perpetually curious about why we selected it as the location for our camp. Other prefectures are better known for tourism or arts or nature, but we were perfectly happy in the little town of Makabe and around Mount Tsukuba. It was filled with craftspeople that... Continue Reading.
We were so fortunate to have such a wonderful Japanese calligraphy class with the elegant and amazingly talented Junko Matsumura during Type Camp Japan this October.
AND . . . not only was she a great instructor, she also just won The Gold Medal in... Continue Reading.
Our time at AdobeMAX was once again a blast!
Type Camp ran a full-day pre-conference workshop at the San Diego event to a sold-out group of 75 people.
The fab Jenny Famularcano shared her sketch book with us – I now want her to write up... Continue Reading.
Our first workshops at the Hoffmitz Milken Center for Typography were not only sold out, but loads of fun as well. We offered classes on Saturday and Sunday to students at Art Center and had attendees from the graphic design, illustration, and photography departments. Everyone learned the brush lettering basics and... Continue Reading.
The brilliant Daria Lanz has done it again – she perfectly captured the feeling of what it is like to attend a Cultural Immersion Learning camp: excitement and experimentation, learning and laughter.
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.
