Study Away

This location-based course offered an opportunity to connect with the historic roots of the type design industry as well as current experts in Type Design development and delivery. The course is designed to reorient your “center” to the point that it requires full immersion in New York City, one of the world's most diverse cities. Through the course, participants learned to use type design and typography to preserve, modernize, and create typographic voices for purposeful brands and institutions today while creating a portfolio of inspiration and resources for use in their future creative work. Students committed to bringing their whole selves to experimentation in type design and/or hand lettering had a two-week immersion experience with the WeType founders, John Kudos and David Jon Walker. WeType is a type foundry that brings together East and West in a culturally nuanced opportunity to explore the possible futures this re-centered design brings. Together with John and David, this MICA in Manhattan cohort will explore New York City, connect with premier designers, experience various firm environments, and hunker down in studio space, ultimately to create a unique font that will represent their current creative expression.