Lingnan flowers bloom, TypeSchool Chinese font design class Shenzhen Station

Lingnan flowers bloom,TypeSchool Chinese class reopens

In early summer and May, TypeSchoolwill come to Pengcheng Shenzhen, offers a 7-day Chinese font design course. FoodFresh feeling lychees on the market, sigh again font coffee, listen to the lectures of professional font masters , Design your own 恐 Chinese fonts, everyone is intoxicated!

Please see the end of this article for registration information. So, let’s take a look at the highlights of this TypeSchool!

Professional and comprehensive course design

3type's Chinese font design course, starting from local needs, has gradually developed its own course structure after two years of practice accumulation and summary: starting from zero foundation, teaching you to know Chinese characters step by step; understanding the culture behind Chinese characters; Understand the history of Chinese font design; experience the process of hand-drawn manuscripts; master the basic structure and design techniques of Chinese characters; get started with professional font design software; learn advanced functions such as OpenType and font programming... and "Western Design in Chinese", "Word Parade" and other font culture lectures, workshops on engraved fonts, the strongest brain and pixel eye competition and other colorful activities.

3type has prepared an exclusive TypeKit for each student, which is full of font knowledge and enthusiasm for font design. In addition, there is also a font coffee exclusively produced by Sanyan. It is said that if you collect all nine types, you can summon the master of font design! We also prepared mysterious prizes for the outstanding students who won the prizes at the end.

3type’s exclusive introduction to Chinese font design and Chinese font knowledge

3type font coffee

This 7-day course has a lot of content. In addition to the introduction of Chinese font design knowledge and the intensive practice of hand-drawn fonts, we will also teach you the various basic functions of the word creation artifact Glyphs software. And each participating student must also complete the design of basic characters in the font design software before the end of the course, and then use their own fonts to design unique works. For those who have enough time to learn, we will also teach advanced functions such as OpenType and font programming.

Learn Chinese font design from point to surface,It’s not just a font library

Many designers and font lovers want to have their own font library, but TypeSchool makes this no longer a dream. In fact, whether it is a logo, a book cover, a poster title, a tattoo, or a graffiti, learning a little Chinese font design knowledge can immediately add points to your daily design. Even if you don’t have the opportunity to design fonts, knowing a little about fonts in your daily work and knowing how to choose and use fonts correctly is also a professional expression.

logotype done in Glyphs using the letterink plugin.

Set the layers into 3 different styles and encapsulate them into a font file.

Industry master hand in hand

The old master of Chinese font design——Mr. Yuan Weimin, will continue to sit in our Chinese TypeSchool. Mr. Yuan is a witness and inheritor of the history of Chinese font design. He served as the director of the font design office of Shanghai Printing Technology Research Institute for many years before retiring. He has more than 40 years of experience in Chinese font design. From the handwritten design in the era of metal movable type to today's digital design, Mr. Yuan has always maintained his passion for Chinese font design.

Ms. Yuan Weimin participated in many font design projects in Shanghai Institute of Printing Technology, such as Song Yi, Hei Yi, etc.

Institute of Printing, Mr. Yuan demonstrates the process of hand-drawn manuscript

Teacher Yuan explained the font design products of the Printing Institute

3type co-founder checks the whole process

Li Zhiqian, the co-founder of 3type, is very young, but he is always called "Old Li". The two small books in our TypeKit - "A Little Introduction to Chinese Font Design" and "Little Knowledge of Chinese Font Design" were written and designed by him, and he poured his years of experience in font design research.

Lao Li is a multi-field designer and practitioner with typography as the origin, and also the initiator and executor of the "Shanghai Movable Type" project. He and his friends interviewed more than 60 big names from all walks of life—old, middle-aged and young generations of typeface designers, typecasters, technicians, family descendants of Shanghai typecasting enterprises during the Republic of China, font company operators, typeface researchers, etc. And so on, not only the history of Chinese font design is very precious, but also in the process of visits, research and practice, I also have a lot of my own experience and understanding of the methods of Chinese font design. In this course, Mr. Li will attend the whole course. In addition to cooperating with Mr. Yuan to tell everyone about the history of Chinese font design, he will also give a lecture "Parametric Typeface Design" to share his insights on Chinese font design.

Derivatives of "Shanghai Movable Type" Project--Typeholder (Portable Movable Type Printing Hammer)

Lao Li Yu City Font Roaming Sharing Session

One-to-one guidance from senior font designers in Hong Kong

In addition to Mr. Yuan, we also specially invited Sammy Or, a senior font designer in Hong Kong. Mr. Ke’s most well-known font design is the MTR Song in the Hong Kong subway, which is still in use today and has become an important part of Hong Kong’s urban font landscape.

MTR Song font sample

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During his work in Mona and Huakang, he continued to design various high-quality fonts. We are familiar with Mona Black, Mona Song, Huakang Lisong, Huakang Lihei, etc., all show Mr. Ke's solid Chinese font design level. After setting up his own independent studio, he led the design of Xinhei, which also attracted widespread attention.

Sample of letter bold font

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Ms. Ke is serious about writing and preparing lessons very seriously. This time, he will integrate his thoughts on the shape structure of Chinese characters and some modern technological glyph patterns into the lecture "Graphic Characters vs. Chinese Characters". Let us look forward to it He is full of dry goods to share!

Sharing by local designers in Shenzhen

In addition to professional font designers, we also invited two good friends who are local graphic designers in Shenzhen. After all, there must be a small number of people who can really engage in the profession of font designers. Liao Bofeng and Liang Jia, who like searching for characters, will share their observations of urban fonts with you. At the same time, we will also learn how they lead projects with text design in their daily graphic design work.

Liao Bofeng is a graphic designer active in Shenzhen. He founded LiaoDesign in early 2016 and served as the creative director. He is also a member of Shenzhen Graphic Design Association (SGDA) and a teacher of Beijing Normal University (Zhuhai Campus).

Most of Liao's personal works are done by hand, hoping to bring fresh, vigorous and straight-line touches from vision to soul. This time Shenzhen TypeSchool will give us a lecture on the investigation of fonts in urban villages——

Investigation on "No Parking" in Baishilong Village. Baishilong Village is an urban village with a long history in Shenzhen. Although it is located outside the customs, it has attracted a large number of migrant workers to live here due to the advantages of transportation and low rent. Liao Bofeng began to collect various "No Parking" warning signs in the village in 2016. Classifying and studying them, the diversity, randomness, and original ecology presented by them are fascinating.

Liao Bofeng's works

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Liang Jia once launched an activity called "Word Parade". As a designer, he often found many attractive things around him from street auctions in Hong Kong, Macau, and Shenzhen, and used them as his own. A source of nourishment and inspiration for design. In this lecture, he will bring us his thoughts on tradition and font design that he felt when he was "hunting" street characters all the year round.

Liang Jia held a "Street Words" sharing session poster at the Guangzhou Academy of Fine Arts

Course Summary

On the first day,Comprehensively understand the basic process of Chinese font design, and imitate the classic Chinese fonts - Song and Hei Ti;

On the second day, learn the theoretical knowledge of Chinese font design, practice the structure of Chinese characters by yourself, and try to reproduce ancient books Historical fonts in ;

On the third day,Learn the design method of creative fonts and draw drafts, get to know the font design software Glyphs for the first time;

On the fourth day, Learn more about Glyphs software, draw your own fonts in the software and export them;

On the fifth day, Improve your own design and learn to use software to make font families (such as a set from thick to thin). Many interesting lectures will add nutrients to your design;

Day 6, Learn the advanced features of Glyphs - add smart components and OpenType features, perfect the design and start making proofs; span>

On the seventh day,Complete the font samples, comment on the works, award awards and communicate after class.

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Font design is not as easy and labor-saving as it looks! In the last few days of the course, many students will have panda eyes, everyone must pay attention to the balance between work and rest.

Course Information

Starting time

5 May 27th - June 2nd, all day from 10:00 to 17:00

Course location

Xiaoyuanli Joint Office,No. 3002, Caitian Road, Futian District, Shenzhen (about 150 meters from Gangxia Station of Luobao Line)

Course Fee

Registration is available from now until 12pm on May 25th. Register before 12:00pm on May 15th to enjoy the early bird price.

regular price ¥6200 / early bird price ¥5600

The fee includes tuition, textbooks, material packages, etc. Students need to take care of their own food and accommodation.

All students participating in the course can enjoy internal student discounts if they need to purchase Glyphs software.

Course Schedule

Enrollment numbers

Limited to 40 people

Notes

• Because Glyphs software only runs on Apple's MacOS system, please make sure you have a Mac laptop.

• Students who need to issue an invoice for the course training fee, please specify it when registering. Additional tax points will be borne by the company account for business-to-business payment, and the invoice information will be provided.

How to sign up

Send an email with the subject "TypeSchool Registration" to typeschool@3type.cn, specifying your name, mobile phone, WeChat, relevant professional background or hobbies, and the courses you want to apply for. 3type will contact you specifically for consultation and arrangement of payment.

Consultation Channel

• Send an email to typeschool@3type.cn for inquiries

• Consult the micro-signal puduss, please indicate TypeSchool course questions when adding friends.

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