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Case Study: Typography short course 2024

Last updated 23 January 2025

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An open and experimental live online short course on Typography that ran from 4–28 June 2024.

Six images of people looking at or holding artworks. The artworks are abstract and colourful

Course Team

  • Adrian Shaughnessy (RCA tutor and co-founder of the publishing imprint Unit Editions)
  • Jack Llewellyn (RCA alumni, visiting lecturer and designer)
  • Can Yang (Senior Tutor and Archivist, RCA School of Communications)

Register your interest for upcoming course dates.

Typography short course page.

Selected participants work

Royal Academy of Art posters on a wall

Natalia Borrego Obrador, Typography participant, 2024

Bubble graphics

Natalia Borrego Obrador, Typography participant, 2024

Black, white, and orange letters that look like 3D objects

Natalia Borrego Obrador, Typography participant, 2024

Black and white images of footprints

Natalia Borrego Obrador, Typography participant, 2024

Typography in black and white

Elizaveta Kuntysh, Typography participant 2024

Typography reading the word 'Reflect'

Emma Starling Armitage, Typography participant 2024

Black and white typography, manipulating the word 'air'

Fahmy-Eduard Abo Hammad, Typography participant, 2024

Black, white, and green text saying 'Acid Rain'

Sheli Avivi, Typography participant 2024

Black and white images of spirals and letters

Mathew Taylor, Typography participant, 2024

Blurry, black and white letters reading 'nothing happens until something moves'.

Mathew Taylor, Typography participant, 2024

Photographs of paper scultpures

Niina Turtola, Typography participant, 2024

“This course gave me the time, motivation and space to develop my personal artistic approach to typography and get professional and versatile feedback. I recommend this course to academics in graphic design and researchers of visuality of language to refresh their approaches and to challenge themselves as educators and researchers.”

Niina Turtola, Lecturer at Edinburgh Napier University Typography participant, 2024

“A wonderful course that can really help you push your typography skills and challenge your thinking behind your concepts, for a stronger design solution”

Nicole Jesenko, Graphic Designer Typography participant, 2024

“The RCA short course on typography has exposed me to a variety of artistic expressions in type, particularly through exploration of abstraction, deeper conceptual approaches, and unexpected sculptural forms, significantly enriching my understanding”

Parul Singh, Creative Partner at Springjoy Design Typography participant 2024

Staff

Adrian Shaughnessy

Adrian Shaughnessy

Associate Lecturer

Adrian Shaughnessy is a self-taught graphic designer. In 1989 he co-founded the design group Intro. Under his creative leadership the studio won numerous awards, and at the turn of century employed 40 people. Intro was an early adopter of digital technology and a pioneer of digital motion graphics.

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