The Design Process Made Manifest: Teaching to Learn, Learning to Teach — Aoife Mooney
Channel: TypeCon
Date: 2022-07-01

Recorded during TypeCon2014: Capitolized in Washington, DC

The process of iteration — of research through making — is particularly magnified in the practice of type design. For a typeface designer teaching undergraduate design courses, the importance of this constant reflection on practice — essentially a pattern of learning to learn — prompted a rethinking of two assignments. Inviting engagement with the informative quality of revision, the assignments aim to clarify and highlight this pattern, common to both the student and professional alike and to foster self-awareness, and reflection on the design process as a means of visual translation.