Type design, the art of creating typefaces, is taught at art and design colleges around the world. A very small number of institutions offer a degree in type design; many others offer type design courses as part of their BA or MA curriculum. When no full type design course is offered, schools may invite type designers to give workshops; these one-off events are not listed in the overview below.
Specialized type design degrees
editUniversity of Reading, UK
Department of Typography & Graphic Communication, MA in Typeface Design
Course Director: Gerry Leonidas
Departmental staff: Martin Andrews, James Mosley, Fiona Ross, Michael Twyman, and Gerard Unger
Koninklijke Academie van Beeldende Kunsten (KABK), The Hague, Netherlands
(Royal Academy of Arts)
Postgraduate Type and Media
Course supervisor: Jan Willem Stas
Staff teachers: Erik van Blokland, Peter Verheul, Paul van der Laan
Visiting teachers include: Frank Blokland, Petr van Blokland, Gerard Unger, Françoise Berserik, Peter Bi'lak, Christoph Noordzij, Just van Rossum, Fred Smeijers, Rick Vermeulen
École Estienne, Paris, France
DSAA Création Typographique