Design of letters as a visual environment to educate in diversity

Abstract

This paper proposes the incorporation of the Alphabet, Typography and Calligraphy to the daily space of Art Education. The progressive advancement of the keyboards' manipulation in the learning and uses of writing, as well as the update of contents in the workshops of arts, allow to elaborate a new territory for the treatment of letters like graphic signs, conquering a new one stage for Lettering and Design Education. We consider important the role that images of texts can acquire in the training teachers for Primary School. Beyond the usual use of typography by professional designers, the educational use of writing as images, at all levels and from any perspective, is claimed here. Digital technologies generate an impressive landscape of graphic possibilities. Minimum criteria are established to recover the tradition of calligraphy teachers and the creative potential of personal calligraphy, as well as the use of this resource to educate in diversity.