Design Educator Typography Intensive

Steven Heller, is the co-chair with Lita Talarico of the MFA Design / Designer as Author + Entrepreneur program and the SVA Masters Workshop in Rome. He has written more than 190 books on graphic design, illustration and political art and is a contributing editor for Design Observer and Eye. Steven is the recipient of the Art Directors Club Special Educators Award, The Eric Carle Award, the AIGA Medal for Lifetime Achievement, among others. He has two honorary doctorates from College of Creative Studies, Detroit and University of West Bohemia, Czech Republic.

Jennifer Whitlock is the archivist for the Vignelli Center for Design Studies at Rochester Institute of Technology (RIT). She initiated an archives program for the Indianapolis Museum of Art, served as a project archivist and interim acting curator at the Architecture & Design Collection at University of California Santa Barbara, and also worked as an Assistant Librarian at the Portland Art Museum. As a self-proclaimed “design preserver,” Jennifer works relentlessly to promote archives to designers and design to archivists.

Louise Sandhaus is a graphic designer, educator, and author, and the former Program Director and current faculty in the Graphic Design Program at California Institute of the Arts (CalArts). Louise’s work has appeared in numerous publications including California: Designing Freedom, Designer’s Dictionary of Color, The Women of Design, Information Design Handbook, among others. Louise is a Letterform Archive board member, a former AIGA board member and former Chair of the AIGA Design Educators Community steering committee. She is an AIGA Los Angeles Fellow and recipient of LA Design Week’s Design Icon Award.

Saki Mafundikwa has been a graphic designer, author, and educator for over thirty years. As an expert on African writing systems, he has lectured, exhibited, and given workshops all over the world, including Pan African Design Institute Congress, SAVVY Spinning Triangles, Kinshasa, Congo; Ringling College, Sarasota; Multiverso Conference, Turin; Tasmeem Design Conference, Doha, Qatar; and more. Saki founded Zimbabwe Institute of Vigital Arts (ZIVA) in 1999, the country's first graphic design and new media college.

The first Design Educator Typography Intensive (DETI), a global virtual learning environment, was presented by HMCT on July 17–18, 2020. The two-day intensive provided educators, designers, and students access to some of the most talented typography instructors currently teaching, who generously shared their expertise during the four webinar sessions. This module explores how design and typography archives can support teaching and what are the available digital resources. Moderated by Gloria Kondrup, Executive Director of HMCT.

DETI: Module 1—“Design and Typography Archives” (Classroom)

DETI: Module 2—Tyrone Drake & Simon Johnston: “Teaching Essential Typography” (Main Session)

Tyrone Drake has collaborated on graphic design, branding and visual communications-related projects with high-profile clients in the fields of architecture, music, film, sports, health and beauty, and luxury hospitality. He has served as design consultant to a number of Los Angeles-based architecture firms, as well as the Los Angeles Chapter of the American Institute of Architects (AIA) and the Los Angeles Institute of Architecture and Design (LAIAD). He is a professor of typography at ArtCenter College of Design.

Simon Johnston is Director of Typography at ArtCenter College of Design and Creative Director of the Hoffmitz Milken Center for Typography (HMCT). He studied with Armin Hofmann and Wolfgang Weingart at the Kunstgewerbeschule in Basel. In the 1980s, he was instigator and co-editor of the typography journal Octavo. His current design practice focuses on publications for galleries and museums, such as the Whitney Museum, Gagosian Gallery, Getty Museum, Yale University Press, and Marian Goodman Gallery.

The first Design Educator Typography Intensive (DETI), a global virtual learning environment, was presented by HMCT on July 17–18, 2020. The two-day intensive provided educators, designers, and students access to some of the most talented typography instructors currently teaching, who generously shared their expertise during the four webinar sessions. This module explores typographic practice across identity design and form-making. Moderated by Gloria Kondrup, Executive Director of HMCT.

DETI: Module 2—Tyrone Drake & Simon Johnston: “Teaching Essential Typography” (Classroom)

The first Design Educator Typography Intensive (DETI), a global virtual learning environment, was presented by HMCT on July 17–18, 2020. The two-day intensive provided educators, designers, and students access to some of the most talented typography instructors currently teaching, who generously shared their expertise during the four webinar sessions. This module explores typographic practice across identity design and form-making. Moderated by Gloria Kondrup, Executive Director of HMCT.

DETI: Module 3—Greg Lindy & Jason Pamental: “Teaching and the Use of Variable Fonts” (Main Session)

Greg Lindy is the founder and creative director of Lux Typographic + Design. He was the design director and founding partner of Intersection Studio, where he was a key creative on projects for The Getty, Sundance Institute, and The Autry Museum among others. Greg is an internationally recognized type designer with a custom retail font line available under the Village banner. He has designed custom fonts and design for Esquire Magazine, Johnson & Johnson and Children’s Hospital of Orange County. Greg currently teaches type design at ArtCenter of College of Design.

Jason Pamental is a design and user experience strategy leader with over 25 years experience on the web in both creative and technical roles, and an Invited Expert to the W3C Web Fonts Working Group. Clients include Ivy League and High Tech, the NFL, and America’s Cup. He also researches and writes on typography for the web: he’s publisher of Web Typography News, author of Responsive Typography from O’Reilly, articles for TYPE Magazine, .Net Magazine, PRINT Magazine, HOW, Monotype.com, and frequent podcast guest.

The first Design Educator Typography Intensive (DETI), a global virtual learning environment, was presented by HMCT on July 17–18, 2020. The two-day intensive provided educators, designers, and students access to some of the most talented typography instructors currently teaching, who generously shared their expertise during the four webinar sessions. This module focuses on what is good typography with the advent of variable fonts and the necessity typography to react to screen size, ambient conditions, and user needs. Moderated by Gloria Kondrup, Executive Director of HMCT.

DETI: Module 3—Greg Lindy & Jason Pamental: “Teaching and the Use of Variable Fonts” (Classroom)

The first Design Educator Typography Intensive (DETI), a global virtual learning environment, was presented by HMCT on July 17–18, 2020. The two-day intensive provided educators, designers, and students access to some of the most talented typography instructors currently teaching, who generously shared their expertise during the four webinar sessions. This module focuses on what is good typography with the advent of variable fonts and the necessity typography to react to screen size, ambient conditions, and user needs. Moderated by Gloria Kondrup, Executive Director of HMCT.

DETI: Module 4—Brad Bartlett & Roy Tatum: “Teaching Transmedia Typography” (Main Session)

Brad Bartlett is a designer, educator, author, and founder of Brad Bartlett Design. His work has been recognized by the Art Directors Club, Type Directors Club, Communications Arts, Dezeen, AIGA 50 Books/50 Covers, Graphis, I.D., How, and Print. He is the Director of Transmedia at ArtCenter College of Design where he has developed transmedia pedagogy and overseen curricular implementation. Brad is also on-screen author at LinkedIn Learning, where he recently published a course on Transmedia Typography.

Roy Tatum is a Los Angeles-based multidisciplinary designer whose work spans wearables, websites, apps, printed matter, and visual identities. Clients include Apple, Nike, The California Science Center, Wove, and Target. He is a Co-founder and Creative Director at Numbers, a design studio specializing in type design, identity design, and illustration projects both self-initiated and for a variety of clients. He teaches Generative Design and Generative Typography at ArtCenter College of Design.

The first Design Educator Typography Intensive (DETI), a global virtual learning environment, was presented by HMCT on July 17–18, 2020. The two-day intensive provided educators, designers, and students access to some of the most talented typography instructors currently teaching, who generously shared their expertise during the four webinar sessions. This module explores typographic practice across traditional and emerging media in relation to the changing social and technological conditions of communication.

DETI: Module 4—Brad Bartlett & Roy Tatum: “Teaching Transmedia Typography” (Classroom)

The first Design Educator Typography Intensive (DETI), a global virtual learning environment, was presented by HMCT on July 17–18, 2020. The two-day intensive provided educators, designers, and students access to some of the most talented typography instructors currently teaching, who generously shared their expertise during the four webinar sessions. This module explores typographic practice across traditional and emerging media in relation to the changing social and technological conditions of communication. Moderated by Gloria Kondrup, Executive Director of HMCT.