Day one was a series of warm-up re-design exercises. I kept the students in the dark about what would happen next and introduced little traps in the files I gave them, things that'd make it easier, but not better for them. At the end of the day explained my reasons and how the tool and traps of an original design affects the end result. The second day started with the students researching the Greek alphabet. I then handed out two crap latin alphabets that they would base their Greek alphabets on and they got to work. The reason for the Greek was to force them to think about letterforms, to not take anything for granted. Most students rushed to their macs and started drawing in Illustrator, a few played with the copier or got some ink going. The third day of the workshop was brilliant - they really got into it and made great progress. I walked around, guiding them individually. Some students hung up their designs that afternoon. I'd set up a bunch of dividing walls to display everything they produced, from the warm-ups and the research bits to the finished type specimens. Everything was displayed so that you had to enter the room and walk around the dividing walls to see the prints. Exhibition and evaluation I wanted them to just hang the newest prints on top of the older ones, some students loved the clutter, some had a hard time with it and pulled down the older prints and threw them on the floor. They didn't have any problems with the floor being cluttered... I explained my reasons for all the tricks and traps, they'd rather have made latin ones, ones they could use, as some students put it, but the purpose of the workshop was not to produce a typeface, the purpose was to give them an insight into typeface design.