Alphabet City prelude: workshop with a foundation year for the designers on the bright, new future and together with their regular teacher, I came up with the idea for Alphabet City Alphabet City is really a way of getting the students to think about all the little typographic elements like proportions, negative space, letterspacing, mood, tone, style and much, much more. over a couple of meetings we came up with the elements the students had to build in The Red Barn. read on