Albers Foundation staff lead workshops at Publicolor

A team from the Albers Foundation traveled to Brooklyn to lead workshops for high-school students participating in Publicolor's Summer Design Studio at Pratt Institute. In one class students looked at the building blocks of Josef Albers's 1926 typeface and built upon the geometry to create new letter forms and experiment with legibility. Other classes considered material awareness and pliability and the use of texture within architectural spaces. Exercises were based on Anni and Josef Albers's teaching methods of hands-on experimentation and careful observation. This was the fourth-annual collaboration with educators and students at Publicolor, a nonprofit organization that engages high-risk students in their education with design-based programs that mentor them for success in college and career. For more information, visit publicolor.org.