Conference poster
Nurturing Student Creativity: Typographic visual abstraction through the letterpress poster
Learning & Teaching Week, 2011 (Sunshine Coast, Australia, 19-Sep-2011–23-Sep-2011)
University of the Sunshine Coast
2011
Abstract
Many design students are not able to experience working with the traditional craft of typography, singularly dependent upon a computer, screen and software. Few letterpress facilities in design institutions have survived the evolving printing industry changes and new universities see the typographic craft as a technology of the past. To help students gain new perspectives, support individual creativity, instill confidence and enhance learning in making aware the time-honoured typographic terms a workshop held during the international Icograda, 'Optimisim' Design Week, Brisbane, partnered USC students with students from city institutions and industry practitioners. National and international designers imparted their experience of typography, layout and space, limited colour palette, design and style on vintage presses in which to make typographic posters to the theme of optimism. This was a valuable opportunity in which professionals shared their knowledge and guided the students' creative output. Through experiencing a traditional craft-based medium using letterpress metal and wood moveable type, students were challenged to abstract pictorial spaces by hand. Working with a craft-based medium increases the capacity for the student practitioner to hold an image in the imagination and to visualise an outcome. The workshop encouraged design students to find new paradigms and to develop fresh skills by experimenting with the letterpress process. This poster will focus on the craft, the making, the mastery, the process and the learning outcomes.
Details
- Title
- Nurturing Student Creativity: Typographic visual abstraction through the letterpress poster
- Authors
- Debra Livingston (Author) - University of the Sunshine Coast - Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences
- Conference details
- Learning & Teaching Week, 2011 (Sunshine Coast, Australia, 19-Sep-2011–23-Sep-2011)
- Publisher
- University of the Sunshine Coast
- Date published
- 2011
- Organisation Unit
- University of the Sunshine Coast, Queensland; School of Creative Industries - Legacy
- Language
- English
- Record Identifier
- 99449975802621
- Output Type
- Conference poster
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