Indigenous Font Design and the Ripple Impact with Juliet Shen
This discuss happened on March 20, 2018 within the Koret Auditorium on the San Francisco Public Library as a part of Sort@Cooper West's Letterform Lecture Sequence. This lecture sequence is made potential by way of the partnership between Cooper Union, Letterform Archive and the San Francisco Public Library and thru the beneficiant help from Adobe Typekit.
Ten years in the past I designed a font for a really small group of Lushootseed audio system on the forefront of the language revitalization effort of their tribal group. This discuss is in regards to the design selections I made and the generally stunning repercussions affecting using the font within the years since. It's in regards to the varied communities of individuals introduced collectively by the ripple results of throwing this small pebble right into a small pond that's, like all small issues, related to a bigger ecosystem.
Juliet Shen taught typography on the Faculty of Visible Ideas in Seattle from 1999–2015, with a yr off to get an MA in typeface design on the College of Studying, UK. Her dissertation on the kind designs of Morris Fuller Benton was printed by Sherwin Seaside Press in a letterpress version hand composed in Benton’s Cloister Outdated Model. Juliet’s typeface Bullen launched by Font Bureau, was impressed by her perusal of typefaces within the early ATF specimen books. She owned an impartial design agency in Seattle for 23 years and continues to design customized fonts in the present day. Her most up-to-date venture was AwanZaman, a collaboration with Mamoun Sakkal on a multilingual Arabic and Latin font, launched by TypeTogether. Her Lushootseed font for the Tulalip Tribes of Washington was the primary newly designed Native American font to be minimize as wooden kind by the Hamilton Museum and is utilized in efforts to revive the day by day use of the critically endangered language. She was a board member of SOTA the producers of TypeCon, for 5 years and the curator of the Sort Americana conferences in Seattle in 2010 and 2012. Juliet obtained her B.A. from Sarah Lawrence Faculty and Certificates of Tremendous Arts from the Cooper Union. She returned to portray in 2012 after a thirty-five yr hiatus and is within the collections of the Tacoma Artwork Museum and the Metropolis of Seattle.
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This discuss happened on March 20, 2018 within the Koret Auditorium on the San Francisco Public Library as a part of Sort@Cooper West's Letterform Lecture Sequence. This lecture sequence is made potential by way of the partnership between Cooper Union, Letterform Archive and the San Francisco Public Library and thru the beneficiant help from Adobe Typekit.
Ten years in the past I designed a font for a really small group of Lushootseed audio system on the forefront of the language revitalization effort of their tribal group. This discuss is in regards to the design selections I made and the generally stunning repercussions affecting using the font within the years since. It's in regards to the varied communities of individuals introduced collectively by the ripple results of throwing this small pebble right into a small pond that's, like all small issues, related to a bigger ecosystem.
Juliet Shen taught typography on the Faculty of Visible Ideas in Seattle from 1999–2015, with a yr off to get an MA in typeface design on the College of Studying, UK. Her dissertation on the kind designs of Morris Fuller Benton was printed by Sherwin Seaside Press in a letterpress version hand composed in Benton’s Cloister Outdated Model. Juliet’s typeface Bullen launched by Font Bureau, was impressed by her perusal of typefaces within the early ATF specimen books. She owned an impartial design agency in Seattle for 23 years and continues to design customized fonts in the present day. Her most up-to-date venture was AwanZaman, a collaboration with Mamoun Sakkal on a multilingual Arabic and Latin font, launched by TypeTogether. Her Lushootseed font for the Tulalip Tribes of Washington was the primary newly designed Native American font to be minimize as wooden kind by the Hamilton Museum and is utilized in efforts to revive the day by day use of the critically endangered language. She was a board member of SOTA the producers of TypeCon, for 5 years and the curator of the Sort Americana conferences in Seattle in 2010 and 2012. Juliet obtained her B.A. from Sarah Lawrence Faculty and Certificates of Tremendous Arts from the Cooper Union. She returned to portray in 2012 after a thirty-five yr hiatus and is within the collections of the Tacoma Artwork Museum and the Metropolis of Seattle.
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