Elliott Earls is the head of the Graduate Graphic Design Department at Cranbrook Academy of Art. He’s a graphic designer who blurs the line between graphic design and art. He’s also a performer and artist whose work has been represented in major art museums. This afternoon, at Typo San Francisco 2014, Earls was all of these things — and a dynamic speaker with some very quotable takeaway points.
In this presentation, Elliott Earls breaks down the mechanics of his hybrid design practice.
We began George Zisiadis‘s talk by shouting our favorite font and high-fiving our neighbors. This was a great introduction to Zisiadis and his work, which he summarized in the opening of his talk with the quote: “I like to have fun. I use my work to have fun.”
Author, artist, and avid cyclist Lisa Congdon gave an inspiring presentation on embarking on new, unfamiliar paths, and embracing the abyss along the way.
Martha Kelly Schumann began her career as an artist and holds a BFA in Graphic Design in Alabama where she grew up. During the summer of 2012 she pursued her interest in computers by attending a 3-month program at the Hacker School in NY where she fell in love with programming. She is now a software engineer at Uber and the founder of LadiesHackDay—a meetup for women of all skills and ages to build radical things together.
Rhythm Remarks wraps up this week with Elliot Earls. Earls is Artist-in-Residence and head of the Graduate Graphic Design Department at Cranbrook Academy of Art. His work as a designer, performer, and artist is represented in major collections including the Smithsonian Cooper-Hewitt National Design Museum, The Wolfsonian Museum, and The Miami Art Museum.
Rhythm Remarks is back again with our next speaker, George Zisiadis. Zisiadis is an interactive artist and designer who’s interdisciplinary projects playfully re-imagine the everyday and inspire people to see the world in new ways.
For years we have been trying to invite Berlin based graphic artist Sarah Illenberger. Due to organizational difficulties she could never make it. Now we are extremely happy to announce that Sarah will be speaking at TYPO Berlin 2014!
Der Ruf als blutjunger Shooting-Star der Branche eilt ihr voraus. Jessica Walsh kommt trotz atemberaubender Hackenschuhe auf den ersten Blick ganz harmlos daher – Vamp geht anders. Ihr Vortragsstil ist ausgesprochen brav, sie bewegt sich kaum, steht hinter dem Pult und liest vom Blatt ab, anfangs zittert ihre Stimme – ein großer Kontrast zu ihrem Ruf, zu den poetischen und professionellen Arbeiten, die sie präsentiert, und auch zu den sexuellen Anspielungen (auf sich selbst), mit denen sie ihren Vortrag anreichert.
Anthony Burrill is a self googler, almost musician and all in all remarkable and humbling creative, graphic artist, print-maker and designer. Having created the “work hard and be nice to people” poster that adorns many a design studio, home and pinterest board, it was absolutely terrific to get an insight into his creative journey and process. Via a series of delightful anecdotes, there were tales of his hometown Rye, adventures with letterpress printers around the world, rock and roll, one of the worst hotels in the world, an infamous environmental disaster, and of course how his iconic print came to be.
Lehni’s work is an intersection of computer science, art, and engineering. He is interested in gestures of production and process. He self taught himself programming at a young age, and is interested in using programming to give things behavior and develop intuition while still maintaining control.
Erik Kessels’ lecture was incredibly visual, incredibly entertaining, and showed us how to blur the lines between the contrasts that occur daily in the design industry. “Strong ideas allow you to blur.” Starting with a strong idea allows you to cross over into different disciplines. To support this point we had the pleasure of seeing some slides of Erik’s projects including: His print work for various ad campaigns, 3-D type created to promote the city of Amsterdam, commercials, and even art exhibits curated by Erik.
