6ET

An experimental typography workshop exploring the expressive possibilities of letter forms and the qualities of positive and negative space in and around their shapes. The workshop will focus on the aspect of this years conference theme ‘perception’ that deals with the graphic communication of emotion, through lettering and typography.

This is a hands-on workshop, using analog means such as stencils, drawing and cutting to create custom lettering.

Participants will work by creating positive and negative shapes to create letter forms and words, with the aim of producing a poster that expresses a particular emotion.

The workshop will include a short presentation to introduce its theme and key ideas. This will be followed by a demonstration of techniques after which participants will begin to make their own experiments in the construction of letter forms. This will occupy the first 3 hours.

In second part of the workshop, the participants will be producing a full alphabet using their newly created letter forms. This will be photographed in order to make digital compositions. They will then create a poster using a single phrase whose emotional charge is carried by the design rather than the content of the message. Designing the poster introduces additional elements to the workshop such as letter spacing, line spacing, scale and composition.

Os participantes devem trazer consigo:

• Camera digital;
• Portátil com editor de imagem instalado (P. ex.: Photoshop);
• Materiais de desenho;
• Tesoura, Bistury (ou X-Acto) e superfície de corte;
• Rolo de artes gráficas (brayer / roller);
• Papel A3 ou jornal (10 – 20 folhas);
• Papel A2 (3 – 4 folhas).