Lettering workshop: Concordia university, Montréal
Two classes of the department of Design & Computation Arts at Concordia University. (Montréal, Canada) welcomed me for lectures and hand-lettering workshops. This was later followed by an introduction to digital typeface design.
Many thanks to professor Nathalie Dumont and to her students for their participation!
Typography workshop at Sorbonne university, Paris, France
In April 2010, the university of “Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne” contacted me to come up with a concept for a one-day workshop, as part of their Déjà Vu exhibition. I chose to work on the curating texts that had been featured in the catalog, and selected numerous examples of XIXth century woodtype alphabets from my personal library. Starting with that, students were asked to design words as graphic images.
Many thanks to Pauline Toulouzou and Bérénice Moulin for putting this together, and to the students for their participation. Hat tip to Malte Martin.
Lettering workshop + lectures at Concordia university, Montréal Québec
In February 2010 I made a series of appearances at the Design & Computation Arts department of Concordia University (Montréal, Québec, Canada). I gave a couple of lectures, a hand-lettering demo, plus a lettering workshops with the class.
Many thanks to professor Nathalie Dumont for her kind invitation and her organization skills, and to the students of the university for their participation!
Type design workshop: Pau, France
In january 2010, I conducted a one-week type design workshop in École supérieure des arts & de la communication (Ésac) in Pau, France.
Starting with calligraphy, 11 students then moved towards typography by picking a randomly selected design brief. Two groups were formed. The week’s content included type sketching and drawing, execution on tracing paper, digitization and production. The last day was spared for the design of a type specimen meant to be displayed at rather large scale in public space.
Many thanks to the course coordinator Patrice Chaminade, to the school staff and to the students for this pleasant week in the city of Henri IV!
Workshop «Écritures imaginaires», Caen, France
In january 2010, Franck Jalleau, Margaret Gray and I conducted a one-week workshop taking place at the Institut Mémoires de l‘édition contemporaine (Imec) in Caen, France. This workshop was organized by the École Estienne and gathered parisian and european art schools students. It is part of a greater series of events, including publications, exhibitions and lectures in april 2010, called Le printemps de la typographie (“Typography spring”). The 21 students were asked to explore the theme Écritures imaginaires (“fantasy writings”), taking the most of this unique place. The institute is indeed located in a former XIIIth century abbey.
Many thanks to Gérard Becker from École Estienne for putting the whole event together! A lot of things connected to this event are following, so stay tuned.
Workshop à Estienne, mars-avril 2009
Et hop, j’interviens (à nouveau) en BTS Communication Visuelle à Estienne le mois prochain, autour de la typographie en design éditorial dans le cadre du sujet de mise en page.
Workshop à Estienne
Le ouorkchope s’articulera autour d’un cours magistral intitulé Typographie en design éditorial: une introduction et d’un sujet de mise en page.