| Melbourne Museum of Printing | Graphic Students' Workshop |
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The workshop, running for five hours, allows students to see the main printing processes (offset and letterpress) with emphasis on the traditional methods and design factors.
Students at levels ranging from year 9 to senior university design courses have benefitted from this eye-opening experience. At year 11 and 12 level, the workshop partly fills the need, expressed in the curriculum in most States, for historical context for typography.
This workshop explores the traditional rules of text assembly including type sizes, leading, kerning and justifying and then shows linkages from those traditions into today's software. One aim is to help visualise what the software is doing. With metal types, it is all so visible.
When an individual holds a book or paper printed before the advent of computers, it is inspiring to visualise just what was involved in putting those letters, columns and pages together, letter-by-letter. The workshop shows the participant how metal type is set by hand and by machine; how spacing is controlled, both within the line and between lines; how type is arranged within the chase; and the four elements of printing (type/plate, ink, paper/position and pressure).
There is some hands-on opportunity, involving written instructions, page make-up and leading, and hand-printing a copy of a souvenir page.
If time permits, there is some discussion on proof-reading and correct punctuation, especially the use of the apostrophe, quotation marks and the dash. Is that the same as the hyphen?
Priced at $495 flat fee per class of up to 20 students and up to two teachers.
Price correct at June 2003.
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