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Drexel University, friends, & fathers

June 17, 2018 Ray Nichols
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Click on the image above to cycle through about a dozen that we picked out to highlight.

A group of graduate students taking a class in Digital Tools at Drexel University in Philadelphia, under the tutelage of Diane Zatz, wanted a field trip and chose a Father's Day Werkman workshop at Lead Graffiti for the experience.

With our new website run through Squarespace, a sweet and reasonably easy function is to create a carousel of images. So, we are going to try it for each workshop with up to maybe 20 images.

A WORD ABOUT US CHOOSING IMAGES. We've looked at a thousand of these things and more than anything we like typographic ideas and not just a "pretty" piece. The point of the workshop is typographic experimentation and mainly that is what we look for.

  • some way of using type we haven't seen before

  • some are chosen because there is small area we like (we call that part of the image a "nugget," a term we borrowed from Martha Carothers, and it may only be a square inch)

  • an amusing, curious, or thought-provoking juxtaposition of shapes

  • an unusual way of repeating the same element

  • imagining that it could make an interesting initial cap for a magazine article

  • would stand out on a book jacket

  • just an idea to put on your shelf to pull down at a later time.

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