Do you have classroom activities, exercises, and lesson plans about typography (font selection, typesetting, etc.)? I have used one activity for years -- it involves taking a serious or playful text and typesetting it (in InDesign) to look the opposite (for example, making a People Magazine or Buzzfeed article look like an article in Harper's Bazaar or The New York Times). I think this idea came from Johanna Drucker but I cannot find the source right now! Some takeaways from the activity are that typographic styles are rhetorical and even small changes make a big difference. At any rate, I would love more ideas for how to teach typography in any college setting / course.
Do you have amazing activities for teaching typography?
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That sounds like a great activity! I've always wanted to do more with this. Ryan Cordell describes some of his teaching exercises in hand-setting type in "Programmable Type: http://ryancordell.org/research/programmabletype/
Personally have had fun with the online "shape type" game http://shape.method.ac/ and the kerning game: http://type.method.ac/
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