Digital Type Design with David Sargent

Participants will work with scanned wood-type proofs to create digitised wood-type from the F.T Wimble Collection working with David Sargent.  

Participants must bring their own laptop computer.

David Sargent is interested in how creative design practice can engage users, communicate information, and spark social change. His studio practice focuses on typeface design, expressive lettering, and disruptive Augmented Reality (AR) applications, with works exhibited in Australian and international institutions. David has over twenty years of experience as a design practitioner, with his role in Liveworm ensuring he has remained industry-relevant within this field.

As Creative Director of Liveworm, David is passionate about preparing confident and reflexive design practitioners ready for life-long creative careers. Liveworm is a full-service design studio for students who engage with a broad range of ‘real world’ projects for not-for-profit, cultural, educational, and select commercial clients in a mentored environment. The initiative has been part of the Queensland College of Art design program since 1982, with David assuming the helm in 2009.

In addition to his role in Liveworm, David is the Major Convenor of Visual Communication Design at the South Bank and Gold Coast campuses. He currently teaches two second-year studio major courses related to publication layout, the history of type, typeface design, and expressive lettering. He has also taught design drawing, brand identity and strategy, design thinking, creative entrepreneurship, and digital user interface (UI) design.