Anchor each slide with an oversized reversed page number and a small, consistently aligned caption. Alternate documentary source material with enlarged analytical graphics, using a pale silhouette beneath a black final form to reveal the relationship between inspiration and construction. Follow spacious single-form slides with component grids and dense test sheets to vary rhythm. For a new subject, replace the maritime imagery and glyphs with relevant source artifacts, construction overlays, and comparison specimens.
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A typeface from concept to construction
A type-design lecture sequence showing a project timeline, an iceberg metaphor, notebook and newspaper imagery, a sailboat-to-letter comparison, deconstructed glyphs, spacing tests, and a closing type specimen.
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A clean, editorial design-presentation style combining a quote and iceberg image, book-cover studies, letterform construction, and type specimens.
- Color
- Mostly white, black, and pale gray, with vivid blue in the iceberg image and small orange-red accents on the book edges.
- Type
- A mix of clean sans-serif and monospaced captions, with large custom letterforms and lowercase character samples.
- Framing
- Slides are arranged in a spacious grid on white, with generous margins, small captions, and black numbered blocks near the lower edge of several slides.
- Structure
- A sequence of numbered case-study and specimen slides: an iceberg quote, paired book visuals, uppercase and lowercase letterform studies, type sample sheets, and a wordmark.
