A creative workshop can last two or three days and, as for any lesson, I always take notes of what worked well and what needs to improve; evaluating and reviewing my teaching as when I ask my students to evaluate and review their own work. With that in mind, I would like to discuss a banner design workshop that two colleagues initiated in 2021, asking students to print manually a slogan with foam as relief technique. In 2022, I decided to take that workshop as reference but as I already made my students work on printing techniques with linoleum earlier that year, I decided to avoid printing again and then made them work on paper as support and material for the letters. Students performed less than expected and it quickly made sense to me what were the problems of that workshop. First, a large banner made of paper as background doesn’t work that well as fabric as it wrinkles easily. Second, the students did not have previous software and typography lessons, which took them longer in developing a clear message. Third, the instruction of deconstructing letters while asking them to communicate a clear message was contradictory, which led to messy works difficult to decipher. They were at a stage where they needed to learn more about type in its particular boldness and size given that deconstructing type would mean already understanding it. Fourth, I did not test enough this paper banner idea before the workshop to see its viability, which confused the students in the steps to follow to achieve the outcome.

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