Python for Graphic Designers with Maurice Meilleur

A design festival for people who use type.

Typographics Festival

The Cooper Union

2023 Typographics Festival

A design festival for people who use type. June 12–22 at The Cooper Union in Manhattan, NYC and online.

In-Person Typographics Conference ticket holders can get a 10% discount on this workshop. Discount must be taken at the time of registration. No partial refunds will be given.There are lots of ways to generate and explore ideas in design, but one great tool for this is writing code. You can start with a few conditions or settings—a color palette; a group of shapes; a series of sizes, positions, orientations, or textures; a typeface—and quickly generate many hundreds of variations and iterations. Using code to explain to a computer how to make something can help you think it through and understand it better yourself. Mistakes in the code, and unanticipated effects and outcomes, can sometimes result in something better than what you’d originally planned to make. They can even help you discover new design ideas, directions, and possibilities.Participants in this workshop will learn the basics of writing in Python, a popular and powerful programming language, working in the free and user-friendly application DrawBot for the Macintosh operating system. No previous experience with Python is needed. You’ll create high-quality vector art, and work with text to explore DrawBot’s advanced typographic features. You’ll be able to save your creations as static or moving images (.jpgs and .pngs, animated .gifs and .mp4s), and even export to multipage .pdf files. You can treat these files as sketches, using them as starting points for work in other applications, like the Adobe Creative Suite. Or, you can refine them further in the DrawBot code editor to develop final products: animations, type specimens, posters, magazines, and books.Required Materials: <ul><li>Sketchbook</li></ul><ul><li>Laptop with MacOS 10.9 (Mavericks) or newer installed</li></ul>Maurice Meilleur is a recovering political theorist turned graphic designer and design researcher. He completed his PhD in political theory at Indiana University Bloomington in 2004, and an MFA in graphic design from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in 2015. He teaches and studies typography, design ethics, and computational design at Iowa State University. He’s contributed numerous type and book reviews to Typographica and Fonts in Use. He has two book projects underway: one is a ‘speculative catalog raisonné’ of the constructed script designs of Jurriaan Schrofer, and the other is about the semiotic and creative potential of constructed scripts. He’s presented his research to audiences at Robothon, ATypI, TypeCon, Typographics, Type@Cooper, and the Letterform Archive.

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