The workshop on type from the 2010 HOW Conference was a great little exercise thanks to the people from typecamp.org.
We all had to come up with a word that describes something that type does. These words then had to relate to the words the people directly on either side of us had come up with. First we drew the type spelling out the word. Next, we drew a version of it that describes the word itself. Finally, we drew a version that was somewhere in between the other 2.
At the end, the instructor collected all of our type specimens and combined them into a video that you can see below.
I thought mine was kind of lame (what can I say? I’m not a morning person.) but there are some great ones in this. See if you can guess which was mine.

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