Building a Typographic Ballet

TYPO Berlin 2009 Space | Saturday, 23 May | 12:00 pm | english

What do our words look like when liberated from the two dimensional page or digital screen? This presentation is a creative journey to define a visual language that is felt not just read by allowing the form of typography to expresses its content in three dimensional space. What happens when our words come alive with the ability to jump, scream, and dance after they leave our mouths? Ebon will share his detailed process journal created over the past ten years exploring the physicality of type in drawings, models, animations, mobiles and installations. His method utilizes technology to celebrate analog construction unbound by the edges of a page or screen.

Ebon Heath

Ebon Heath

Ebon Heath lives and works in Brooklyn New York and received his BFA, in Graphic Design, from Rhode Island School of Design. In 1993 he founded (((stereotype))) , a design studio focused on music packaging, magazine layout, and fashion advertising. Clients varied from the urban fashion pioneer Tripe 5 Soul,…

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