Class Typography

Increase differentiated but complementary levels of knowledge of the evolutionary processes of
typographic art between the 15th and 21st centuries.
Carry out an assessment of the various evolutionary processes manual, mechanical, pre-digital and
digital composition.
Discuss as trends in typographic communication in the Pre-Digital Era (Futurism, Constructivism, Dada,
De Stijl, Bauhaus, New Typography, International Style, Situationism, Fluxus, Punk and New Wave) and
Digital Era (Grunge, Ed. Fella, FUSE and Digital Typography).

DEFINITION
- Introduction.
- What is typography?
FUNCTION
- Language: the oral system and the written system.
- The grammar.
- The lexicon.
- Communication theories.
FORM
- The font.
- The letters in uppercase and lowercase.
CREATION AND DESIGN
- The digital font and type classification.
- The typographic composition.
- Designing type.
STRUCTURE
- Design planning.
- The design of grids and structures.
- The introduction of typography in cinema, audiovisual, multimedia and the Internet.

Resource on transdisciplinary methodologies, the current contextualisation of the understanding of 'transdisciplinarity' as a new studio model, with an expanded structure, specific to contemporary artistic practice; the updating of the distinction between 'transdisciplinarity' and 'interdisciplinarity'; the confrontation and relationship between the use of the internet as a 'studio' and the simultaneous need for this as a physical space. the simultaneous need for it as a physical space... if artists and designers continue to require a studio, do they not continue to require a studio, should not the way in which they mobilise it mobilise it be a reason to analyse their practice?

'Transdisciplinarity' as a new kind of 'intelligence' reflecting a harmony between mind, affect and body and its influence on the need for a 'reform of the University'; the definition of disciplinary boundaries and the nature of the possibilities of their transgression.

ROXANE, Jubert, (2006), Typography and Graphic Design: From Antiquity to the Present, Flammarion,
Paris.
HELLER, Steven, (2004), Education of a typographer, Allworth Press, New York.
BRINGHURST, Robert, (2004), The Elements of Typographic Style, Hartley and Marks Publishers, 3rd
edition, Vancouver.
HOCHULI, Jost, (2004) Detail in typography, Letters, letterspacing, words, wordspacing, lines,
linespacing, columns, Hyphen Press, London.
BAINES, Phil/HASLAM, Andrew, (2002), Type & Typography, Laurense King Publishing, London.