Sign Painting Workshop with Ged Palmer
→ This workshop gives you an introduction to sign painting. Learn how to draw letters from scratch, write them with a brush and design your own layouts. After a brief presentation on sign painting and hand lettering, you will practice the basic strokes for block and casual lettering. The basic strokes are the building blocks of the letters and they allow you to familiarize yourself with the brushes. You will then proceed to paint block letters and the casual alphabet which you can eventually combine in dynamic layouts.
»Bold & Gold – Hand Painted Signs and Other Curiosities«
→ Sign Painting has a long tradition in Berlin but unfortunately died out as a craft over the past decades, replaced by cheaper print techniques and vinyl.
Which techniques are still known today? What has changed since the old times? How is it possible to reintegrate sign painting again into the modern Berlin cityscape? Weiterlesen
Guido de Boer: Process
→ In my daily profession, I make posters, logos, wall paintings, zines, books, etc. But that’s only the result. More important to talk about is in my opinion: How do I do it? And most important: why? In my talk, I would like to give answers to those questions and hopefully, you’ll get some insights in my process. Weiterlesen
Chris Campe: Intellectual Lettering
→ Everyone is so strange in their own peculiar way – yet much of lettering looks the same. But if lettering makes language visual and gives text a voice, shouldn’t there be a broader range of sounds? In her talk, Chris advocates idiosyncrasy and shows you how to make your lettering more interesting and your voice be heard. Weiterlesen
Gayane Yerkanyan: ERRORS
→ Gayane will speak about her journey of breaking free from the unwritten rules, fears and challenges of working with the Armenian letters. After embracing ERRORS in her artistic practice, she compares an individual with a letter, in a way that they both need freedom from their contexts. Weiterlesen
High on Type: Calligraphy Performance
→ We’re not doing just a talk, we’re going to give you a live calligraphy performance! We would like to give you the feeling to be there when we grabbing our brushes and making letters in our studios. And in this way to give you some insight in our making-process. Weiterlesen
Kimya Gandhi: Looking at the Past, Present and Future of Type in India
→ In India, we live simultaneously in a number of centuries together. There is continuity of thought, philosophy and the way of life. But the decisive factor in the perpetuation of the cultural dichotomy between tradition and modernity is the exclusion of traditional culture from formal design education. Weiterlesen
Martina Flor: Wonder-making with Letters
→ Lettering Design from Sketch to Final Artwork: Pushing her own lettering work from ‘good’ towards ‘great’ is what keeps Martina Flor busy. This Berlin-based letterer and designer will speak about the craft of drawing letterforms, walking the audience through her working method including analog and digital tools, as well as sharing insights on the making of the process from concept to sketch to final artwork. Weiterlesen
Otto Baum: Wallphabets & OttoTools
→ Otto spricht über seinen Werdegang und stellt verschiedene Arbeiten und seine Herangehensweisen im Handlettering vor. Er beschreibt seine fortlaufende Serie der „Wallphabet’s“. Darüber hinaus geht er auf einige seiner selbstgebauten „OttoTools“ ein die er im Bereich Abstract Painting und Handlettering anwendet. Weiterlesen
Bernd Volmer: How Our Creativity is Shaped by Our Tools
→ Bernd is a type designer who uses various tools in his work, ranging from old pen plotters to computers and iPads. In the presentation, he will explain how these tools influence his design process and shape his visual repertoire as well as what are their different limitations and advantages regarding type design, calligraphy and lettering. Weiterlesen