A type walk will take us through the material, historical, cultural and linguistic diversity of letterforms in the heart of Ljubljana. Looking for common design features, we will pay attention to lively compositions, unusual ligatures and innovative diacritical marks.
A walking tour will share subjective observations of formal aspects and uncover details of urban visual communication in Ljubljana that are overlooked in passing. We focus on typography in relation to architecture in its unique, permanent material form, rather than in its reproductive or ephemeral form in printed matter.
The concept of a walk addresses a very important skill that is crucial to typographic education. How to observe type? How to understand what you are looking at?