Typography is what language looks like

While ETEC 540 is not a course about typography per se, it has indirectly renewed my interest in the art of arranging type. I’ve just started reading Ellen Lupton’s book Thinking With Type.

On literally the first page she introduces the idea, “typography is what language looks like”. To gain a visual sense of what this means and an idea of the concepts covered in the book have a look at the following video from the Vancouver Film School: