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Overview
Key facts
- Typography is part science and part art and a failure to understand this can result in mediocre typographic expression at best or miscommunication at worst.
- This course in Typography (Online) offered by Royal College of Art aims to provide you with the core principles of typography (the science) but also to inspire you to develop your typographic expression in the process (the art).
Accreditation
This course will be most beneficial for:
- Graphic design students
- Recent graduates who wish to improve their typography skills and knowledge
- Professionals working in publishing, advertising and communication
- Prospective graphic design/visual communication students
- Anyone seeking an opportunity to experiment without professional constraint
Programme Structure
By the end of this course, you will have learnt:
- to confidently make type function in various settings, from traditional to contemporary, from handmade to computer-generated, from print to electronic;
- to develop your own typographic projects and present them in front of RCA tutors;
- a set of new skills and tools to improve your personal typographic expression.
Lecturers
Adrian Shaughnessy, Visiting Lecturer, Royal College of Art
Key information
Duration
- Part-time
- 1 months
Start dates & application deadlines
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More details
This course is closed for open bookings at the moment
Language
English
Delivered
Online
Campus Location
- London, United Kingdom
Disciplines
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Academic requirements
We are not aware of any specific GRE, GMAT or GPA grading score requirements for this programme.
English requirements
We are not aware of any English requirements for this programme.
Other requirements
General requirements
It is preferable for participants to:
- have an undergraduate degree in a design or a demonstrably creative background;
- be familiar with some of the industry-standard software packages (e.g. Adobe InDesign, Illustrator and Photoshop, FontLab, Glyphs, etc);
- use a desktop computer or laptop;
- have a basic understanding of typography.
Tuition Fees
Funding
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