In Pursuit of Typographic Cityscapes

For intermediate students of publication design at the Bangalore campus of the National Institute of Fashion Technology, Pooja facilitated a workshop centred on the documentation of street lettering, and the possibilities of storytelling that offers.

Armed with a brief introduction about the typographic environment of the neighbourhood, students first went on an exploratory type walk around Ulsoor. Once back in the classroom, they were introduced to different approaches they could take to organise the audio and visual content, as well as stories they had gathered. Working in groups, they brainstormed ideas to share the most remarkable observations they had made, and finally made prototypes for zines that tell different typographic stories from the area.