Some things we (or learned) about how we consume, produce, and design text…

Some things we know (or learned) about how we consume, produce, and design text, and how it affects our brains and bodies in relation to you, hermit crab is published at the conclusion of a set of shared writing and typography classes, conducted by Phil Baber and David Bennewith, with Group B of the second-year Graphic Design class at the Gerrit Rietveld Academie. The classes took place from January to March 2020.

Participating students: Karl-Emil Bengtson, Ossip Blits, Perrine David, Juna Horstmans, Juliette Lépineau, Perille Winther, Wooryun Song, Dongseok Min, Eleanor Schilling & César Rogers, Sigriõur Póra.

General note

Typography is something that is learned by practice. Therefore this semester we will try a classroom technique called “situated learning” to practice typography, together. Each typography class we will do a series of exercises with the text you produced text in writing class. We will print the outcomes at the end of the class to look at and discuss together. We will work with your own writing to try and find detail, skill, and perhaps fun in writing and typography.