Thinking With Your Hands

with Cyrus Highsmith

This hands-on workshop helps you explore different ways of drawing, making, and seeing letters.

In this two-week workshop (two Wednesdays and Thursdays in a row, starting on October 4), you’ll learn how letters can be drawn in many different ways. Cyrus Highsmith’s approach is based on the importance of white space and sensitivity to shapes, a method he applies to type design as well as image making of all kinds. For Highsmith, “thinking with your hands” is a way of seeing the world. This workshop will be a messy, hands-on, computer-free exploration of drawing, making, and thinking about letters.

Learning Outcomes

• How to maintain a sketchbook practice
• How to sketch in different waysmHow to draw with different tools