SVA Masters Workshop: Design History, Theory and Practice in Italy

SVA Masters Workshop, now in its fourth season, is a unique way to learn about type, book and lettering design, as well as architecture, art, archeology, and epigraphy in Rome-the birthplace of Western typographic tradition.

Study with the best typographers and designers in Italy, visit the Trajan Column and the Pantheon, and partake in exclusive visits to the Roman and Imperial Forums. Examine the inscriptions on Roman structures that have long been accepted as a typographic ideal.

This intensive hands-on workshop in design history, theory and practice allows participants to research and analyze the roots of typography, draw type and letters from the classic models while practicing contemporary design along with a faculty of Italian and American designers, historians and publishers.

Taught by leading design professionals, this workshop emphasizes the multidisciplinary and entrepreneurial nature of contemporary design.