How can one learn to practise typography? What if typo­graphy were always about re­­la­tionships and structures, never about rules? How to un­­­derstand these connections, or better grasp them? How to learn a craft at university and what can be found out­side and between? What if the back­ground comes to the fore? A grand gesture? A series of minuscule explorations? Settings, observations, analysis, readings, collecting, revisions, variations?

The course “Typography and Graphics” explores questions around what typography is and how potentials can be further developed. Typography is understood here as a practice that emerges from the interplay between historically established conventions and their conscious consideration within practical design processes and situations through different kinds of engagement. Through a wide variety of exercises – creation, collection and critical analysis of individual work and the typographic environment – students observed and built up a personal and professional vocabulary.