I am excited to announce that Crafting Type, the traveling international font creation workshop, is arriving in Australia for the first time ever! It is a three-day event hosted by awesome design firm Portable, at their Melbourne offices in Collingwood.

The workshop will be led by global type legend Thomas Phinney (Adobe, Fontlab, and currently producing Google symbols alongside providing font forensics in legal cases) in partnership with moi. I'm personally very excited to be able to work with Thomas in bringing this event to Australia for the first time.

This three day event is a structured deep-dive for those who are type-curious. It is designed to give you a solid theoretical and practical start in type design, and fine-tune your sensibilities to make you a more critical user of type. You can be an absolute beginner, or an intermediate or expert type designer—either way you'll go home with a sharpened typographic eye. Past attendees tell us their newfound knowledge allowed them to discuss type with clients more clearly and confidently, and help others in their studio improve the typographic output in their work.

We thought you might like to come along—or know someone who would! We'd love it if you could help spread awareness of this event by tweeting, forwarding, or just mentioning it to a type-curious friend!

The best news is that students (& teachers) are half price! There are also discounts for those working for charities and non-profits, and members of ATypI, SoTA, AIGA and others. That is in addition to the 20% “Early Bird” discount until February 28, for full 3-day workshop prices as low as $344 (students & teachers)—if you register now.

More information:
Visit the Crafting Type website
Prices & Registration

Any questions, let us know on Facebook or by email!

Hope to see you in Melbourne!
Wayne