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2004
Cooper
Hewitt National Design Museum Collaboration Studio
TYPEFACES
Children
create faces with type, then animate them.
by
Pinar Ceyhan and Amelia Marzec
Parsons School of Design, Design & Technology MFA
Instructor: Andrea Dezsö
Try
out this activity! (This is an outside link)
See
ALL THE GAMES created
during this studio
(This is an outside link)
Studio
featured in Metropolis magazine


During this Collaboration Studio students follow a design process I call "evolutionary". I was inspired by the folk craft methods artisans in traditional cultures use to develop objects over several generations. In this process heritage and mindful iterations are important. Students learn to work with something that existed before their time. They add their contribution, maintaining the integrity of the original work. Then they pass it on to the next generation of students who will join the Collaboration Studio one semester later. Students "learn the craft" by first adding functionality, de-bugging, improving pieces inherited from the previous semester. Later they propose and create brand new, original pieces. Typefaces is such a "first generation" original piece.