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Middle School students will be taken on a type journey - exploring typography and creating a chromatic linocut print. Visual Communication Design Resource. Target Year levels: Middle School Year levels
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How to use this Resource:
- View the video Wood Type is Good Type.
Wayne Thompson is the director of the Australian Type Foundry - a business that creates digital typefaces and does all things to do with typography. Thompson discusses how he created a chromatic wood type font - how it was letterpress printed and then digitised and turned in to a keyboard typeable font. The font, Cedric, is shown here.
Complete the exercises in the resource.
- Glossary of terms - Wood Type is Good Type
- Research Chromatic Type
- View the video Creating Chromatic Typography using Linocut Techniques.
Thompson demonstrates how to create a two colour lino print using two pieces of lino and a registration technique. - Brief
- Some font facts
- How to design a serif font
- Creating drop shadow type
- Taking it Further - extension exercises
Price: $150 Members only
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