Barış Atiker has what you call a hands-on-mentality. “Are you ready for an experiment on creative thinking, collaboration and making mistakes?” The turkish motion designer enthusiastically challenges his crowd from the very beginning of his workshop on “Stop Motion Typography”.
While some people have their lunch and enjoy the sun outside, in the depths of the conference burrow a special workshop takes place, where you have to cook on your own. What might sound like a cooking-class or maybe a breaking-bad metaphor, actually is one of the most beloved parts of the TYPO. Like in the years before Eric van Blokland and Paul van der Laan guide you through your special recipe of drawing type.
Usually Stefan Kiefer’s creative workshops take two days (plus one night shift). At TYPO Berlin he squeezes the content into two tiny hours. The dynamic of the extremely short-lived creative teams and their results are nevertheless remarkable.
On designing the cryptic cyrillic “K”. In her workshop, Gayaneh Bagdasaryan revealed her approach to design one of the most confusing Cyrillic letters.
After a successful launch at last year’s TYPO, the Hebrew calligraphy workshop is back again for 2015. This year sees graphic and type design duo Christine Lange and Patrick Marc Sommer of Langesommer teaming up with expert calligrapher and multidisciplinary designer Amichai Green.
Der „Calligraphic Letter Abstraction“-Workshop vermittelte Einsichten in die Methode der typografischen Abstraktion des Schriftkünstlers Drury Brennan – mit Live-Demo und Fragerunde.
Typecooks Erik van Blokland and Paul van der Laan fried and roasted the recipes sketched by TYPO guests during the conference.
Seit Jahren der Renner unter den TYPO-Workshops: die Kalligrafie-Workshops mit Andreas Frohloff, dem Leiter des Type Department bei FontShop International. Diesmal: Einführung in das Schreiben einer Breitfeder-Kursiv nach den Schreibmusterblättern von Axel Bertram.
Das hebräische Alef-bet ist das Alphabet des antiken und modernen Hebräisch und eines der ältesten noch verwendeten. In Zusammenarbeit mit dem Jüdischen Museum Berlin gab der Workshop von LANGESOMMER Einblicke in die hebräische Kalligrafie und Schrift. Gemeinsam mit Amichai Green vom Jüdischen Museum, lernten die TeilnehmerInnen, hebräische Buchstaben mit einer Feder zu schreiben und damit Duktus und Schönheit der hebräischen Kalligrafie kennenzulernen.
Designerin Ulrike Damm beschäftigt sich vor allem mit freien Kulturprojekten. Mit Studentengruppen in verschiedenen Ländern hat sie acht Sprachen analysiert und dafür – über Ländergrenzen hinweg verblüffend einheitliche – Bilder gefunden.
I hope you had a chance to visit the $1/MINUTE participatory creative workshop set up by Ana Llorente & Davey Whitcraft of Strangeways Academy. Throughout the past two days, conference attendees had the opportunity to place requests (and name their price) for projects that were fulfilled by the workshop directors and rotating guest creatives – open to anyone who wanted to participate.
Us is a de-centralized design collective that explores non-traditional methods of process and collaboration. In response to this year’s theme of rhythm, they have set up an interactive workshop where conference attendees generate hand crafted poster art by working within (and against) established parameters, taking inspiration from the elements provided while exercising creative liberty to remix and re-imagine.
