Typography for Designers: Create Fonts for the Marketplace

About Me

A course by Thomas Jockin , Typeface Designer

100% positive reviews (16)

1,161 students

Audio: English

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About the video: About Me

Overview

“Let me spend a few minutes introducing myself, my background, and my motivation to teach this course.”

In this video lesson Thomas Jockin addresses the topic: About Me, which is part of the Domestika online course: Typography for Designers: Create Fonts for the Marketplace. Learn a simple yet effective research method to produce unique typefaces that communicate your vision.

Partial transcription of the video

“About Me Hi, I'm Thomas Jockin, a typeface designer. Welcome to my course. I'm a typeface designer, founder of TypeThursday and CEO of Readable Technologies. I'm from Long Island, New York, and I continue to work there. I studied Communication Design at Parsons School of Design and completed a post-grad in Typeface Design at Type@Cooper, in Cooper Union. I fell in love with typography and type design when I took my Type 1 class with typeface designer Joshua Darden and I never looked back. While at Parsons, I also completed an apprenticeship under Joshua Darden, where, when I wasn't taking o...”

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Course summary for: Typography for Designers: Create Fonts for the Marketplace

Level: Beginner
100% positive reviews (16)
1161 students
4 units
12 lessons (1h 41m)
8 downloads

Category
Calligraphy & Typography
Software
Adobe Illustrator, Glyphs
Areas
Digital Marketing, E-commerce, Graphic Design, Typography, Typography Design

Thomas Jockin

A course by Thomas Jockin

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Typeface Designer

Thomas Jockin is a typeface designer based in Long Island, New York. He first knew he wanted to pursue typeface design after attending a typography course during his time studying at Parsons School of Design. Since then, he’s gone on to produce fonts that are available on platforms like Google Fonts and Adobe Fonts.

Thomas has worked with clients including Google, Express, Footlocker, and Michael Kors. He is also the founder of TypeThursday, a global community designed to help creatives improve their letterforms through monthly events. He hosts lectures at prestigious schools in the US and is the CEO of Readable Technologies, a tool that helps to detect dyslexia in children.