Typography School
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Uploaded by omairways on Sep 23, 2006
Veteran graphic design/typography and letterpress teacher from the London College of Printing/London College of Communication: David Dabner talks... giving an insight into the principles of design, creative letterpress and why computers make students sloppy.
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@joecassara I agree! I have actually educated myself mostly off of the computer, there is so much information already online that is only being added on to each day. I think that without the revolution of computers and the internet I would be a much less educated man.
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People who get offended by what this teacher is saying are thinking about it the wrong way. He acknowledged the use of the computer as a tool but he was emphasizing that working by hand forces you to really pay attention to the medium and to the details of manually designing a composition, assembling type, and printing it, all laborious. People will make good work if they truly want to, whatever medium they work with. This is just his forte and he's defending letterpress as an art form.
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"Computers make students sloppy" so it's better to do everything by hand. False dichotomy. Be nostalgic, but we are moving on...
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Omair Barkatulla thanks for this…
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@radicalsystems can i have a job please, i dont mind emailing my portfolio !!!!! please im very good,
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i've worked with signwriters, and was impressed how they could draw typefaces 6 feet high by hand and it would be perfect, that takes skill
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We students come across this debate. But I think its quite selfish for typographers to come out and call students sloppy only because the times are changing & technology is becoming the new way forward. We always get typographers in seminars telling us the same old story. Yes ! I understand that the computer is only as clever as the person using it. There's a good chance that most of them typographers aren't as competent using computers. So all of a sudden it becomes wrong to use one.
Hax9 1 year ago 3
Amazing video, first time I've come across this. Cheers for the memories omairways. Excellent.
I spent 4 years at LCP/LCC and was taught by Dave. I had the fortune of studying on the last ever HND in Typography. I loved every minute of it. Eccentric top bloke.
silenz 2 years ago 3