Responsive Typography

From online typesetting techniques and accessibility requirements to visual experiments:In this workshop, we will learn HTML and CSS in order to understand the specific characteristics of online typography and apply them in a functional and experimental way in our designs.

Key data

ECTS points: 2 ECTS
Next start: 9 February 2026
Duration: 1 week
Final application date: 12 January 2026
School days: 5
Teaching language: German/English
Place: Basel
Fee: CHF 900.–
Studying type: Fulltime

Application

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The «Responsive Typography» workshop teaches the theoretical basics and practical tools of digital typography. Participants learn how classic typographic principles can be translated into the digital space—and how information transfer on the web can respond to different devices, screen sizes, and usage contexts. An important part of digital typography is technical implementation. Without a basic knowledge of web development (HTML/CSS), it is difficult to make good, accessible design decisions. The course teaches the necessary technical basics and leaves room for your own creative experiments.

Lecturer

Thomas Bircher is a UX designer and programmer working as a lecturer at the Basel Academy of Art and Design FHNW and the Rapperswil University of Applied Sciences East.
As co-founder of Claudiabasel, a graphic design agency, he is responsible for the conception, design, and programming of countless websites, online applications, and information systems for commercial and cultural institutions. In both his work and teaching, Thomas Bircher explores the tension between aesthetics and usability. Thomas Bircher develops tools and interfaces allowing new forms of interaction to be tested.

General Information Workshops Institute Digital Communication Environments (IDCE)

The Institute Digital Communication Environments (IDCE) offers workshops for students, educators and graphic designers.

The workshops afford insights into topical themes of visual communication for analogue and digital communication channels in a study programme reflecting the rich tradition of the Basel School of Design. Practical exercises with a high level of professionalism form the core of the workshops focus. Reflection as well as contextual knowledge will be conveyed by way of input sessions, allowing participants’ work to be judged within a contemporary, future-oriented context relevant to professional practice. The trinational Rhine River Valley is a unique cultural environment with easy access to France and Germany and to sites such as the Vitra Design Museum (G), the Isenheimer Alter (F), or Ronchamps (F). In Basel, the Fondation Beyeler, Tinguely Museum, Museum of Fine Arts, Schaulager, and Museum of Contemporary Art are world-renowned. Besides its museums, Basel offers a rich mixture of cultural events.

Entry requirements

none

Target group

The course is primarily aimed at designers, UX/UI designers, and front-end developers who want to deepen their typographic skills in the digital field.

Goals and benefits

Learn the basics of HTML and CSS and deepen your knowledge of typography
Understand typographic principles for the digital space, optimize them, and make them accessible
Explore experimental design with HTML and CSS

Fees

Multiple Bookings:
2 ECTS CHF 900.-
4 ECTS CHF 1700.-
6 ECTS CHF 2400.-
8 ECTS CHF 3000.-
10 ECTS CHF 3500.-

20% discount with a valid student ID. This must be sent in with the registration (pdf)

Information and regulations

Terms of participation (PDF)
Information on continuing education FHNW (fhnw.ch/DE)
Continuing education regulations of the universities FHNW (fhnw.ch/DE)

Institute Digital Communication Environments (IDCE)

Through digital media and the democratisation of communication channels that goes hand in hand with it, the critical handling of their visual and interaction-based design has become decisively more important, because the social relevance of information and communication has thus fundamentally changed.

Postal address for letter post

FHNW Academy of Art and Design
Institute Digital Communication Environments (IDCE)
Freilager-Platz 1
Postfach 
CH-4002 Basel

Visitor and parcel delivery address

FHNW Academy of Art and Design
Institute Digital Communication Environments (IDCE)

Freilager-Platz 1, Hochhaus: D 5.03
4142 Münchenstein b. Basel

T +41 61 228 41 11
M info.idce.hgk@fhnw.ch

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