Exploring letterforms with primary school children through a series of workshops

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Riso, Screen Print With three different primary schools I ran three workshops that explored how children create letterforms and understand type rules. I created an outcome for each school that I gave back to them as a thank you for their participation. 

The first workshop was exploring how letters drawn by 5-6 year olds could act as framing devices for rubbing done in the playground. Children this age don’t have the strict rules of type that you get as you get older, their creations are very free and not constrained by preconcieved ideas of what letters should look like.

The second workshops utilised collage and imagination, the children from year three explored how to create letterforms using abstract shapes of six different colours. The lack of regular shapes pushed the children to imagine the forms in alternative ways.

The third workshop was about linking letters with describing words, creating a personality for them that influenced how the forms manifested.

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