Day 9 – June 1:
Walking the cobblestone streets of wet Roma we arrived at Sapienza, University of Rome for the first lecture on typographic inscription by Italian typographer Mauro Zennaro. He took us through his process of developing his own type interpretations of inscriptions from Pompeii and explained that early Roman lettering was painted not inscribed. Participants then spread out through the piazzas around the Pantheon to find their own inspirations. In the afternoon Steven Heller spoke to students of La Sapienza about influences and cliches in
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