Sugar Maples Center for Creative Arts

Skill Level: Beginner to Advanced

There are few aspects of human communication that are as sophisticated as written alphabets. Integral to language and meaning, letters, designed and drawn, offer infinite aesthetic possibilities. This unique workshop will emphasize the importance of white space, sensitivity to shapes, and ways to render. Students will be introduced to methods that can be applied to type design as well as image-making of all kinds. This workshop will be a dynamic, hands-on, and mostly computer-free, exploration of drawing, making, and thinking about letters in ways that will enable students to see the world in different ways.

Cyrus Highsmith is a drawer of letters, teacher, author, and graphic artist. He teaches type design at Rhode Island School of Design (RISD). He wrote and illustrated the acclaimed primer, Inside Paragraphs: Typographic Fundamentals. In 2015, he received the Gerrit Noordzij Prize for extraordinary contributions to the fields of type design, typography, and type education. In 2017, his type foundry, “Occupant Fonts,” became a brand of Morisawa.

Learn more: occupantfonts.com

Fee: $340 + $40 Non-Refundable Registration Fee