Splash Biography

Join us for a discussion of the written word-- literally, how we write. In the first part of the class, we'll discuss a brief history of the forms of the alphabet (focusing on the Roman alphabet, though we may take a look at other forms of writing like Cyrillic or Arabic) before moving on to a discussion of typesetting and typography in printed books and on the computer. In the last part of the class, we'll give a short introduction to modern forms of calligraphy and everyone will get a chance to try it!