Letterspace 1 6 0 – Taking Notes Made Easy

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Letterspace 1 6 0 Taking Notes Made Easy Class
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Zeeburgerpad 51h
1019 AB Amsterdam
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letterspace is platform situated in Amsterdam Oost, and as of 2018 is hosting a monthly series of lectures about experimentation, innovation and research in type.
As hosts, we are interested in expanding more traditional definitions of type (design) established within education programmes and institutions. We are excited to welcome a lively and diverse group of artists, designers and researchers to explore type happening in Amsterdam.
The lectures are open to the public and free. Experts, non-experts, type enthusiasts, writers, design students might be especially interested in joining.
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Supported by: 24 24. Sep 2021
19:00 21:00 at GWA
It has been too long since we were able to host a lecture about type related work, made in Amsterdam.
If youve visited one of our more crowded evenings at Zeeburgerpad, you know that there is no way to provide enough distance and airflow at our studio. Luckily, the GWA reached out to us, offering to host our events at their new workspace in Amsterdam Noord at the creative hotspot NDSM.
After an introduction to the facilities of the GWA, Sabina Chipar and Martin Cadwallader will present the bespoke typeface for HS Kwartier, The Hague, which they created in collaboration with CIRCUS.
CORINE ELEMANS
GWA stands for Grafische Werkplaats Amsterdam (Graphic Workshop Amsterdam). It was founded in October 2004 in Amsterdam Oost. GWA aims to take the Dutch Graphic Heritage forward by conserving, restoring, and using letterpress material. As an open atelier, the GWA wants people to come visit, smell the ink, and touch the machines in person. Next to letterpress, the GWA offers workshops in bookbinding, etching, lino cutting, and photopolymer. Since the move to Noord, silkscreen capacities have been added to the workshop.
SABINA CHIPAR MARTIN CADWALLADER
For the up-and-coming Holland Spoor Kwartier, the creative studio CIRCUS developed a progressive and playful area brand. HS Kwartier is set to become The Hagues most radiant district with an enticing mix of working, living and leisure concepts and facilities covering 90,000 sqm. This spectacular urban playground in the heart of The Hague surely deserved its own voice, so it should come to no surprise that the branding project included a bespoke typeface, designed by Martin Cadwallader and produced by Sabina Chipar. The two presenters will allow us a close look into the process of creating a custom typeface with several weights and even a variable-font. They will reveal what inspired the industrial letterforms and how it is to work on a typeface that will be the face of a whole neighborhood.
Thanks to:
Grafische Werkplaats Amsterdam
NDSM plein 27
1033 WC Amsterdam 02. Sep 2020
18:30 20:30 at Noorderpark
After the last press-conference of the government and having an eye on the climbing CoViD-19 infections in Amsterdam, we decided to cancel our fall season at letterspace.
Even though we really enjoy all things involved in organising these lectures and we are missing you all, we dont find our informal gatherings important enough to put anyone at risk.
Since we would like to catch-up with you all, we came up with the idea of a picnic in the park, where we can follow safety measures and everyone can bring their own snacks and blanket.
We will provide bottled beverages and hand-sanitiser for everyone.
Since sharing food is not advised by the RIMV its best to bring your own food and a picnic blanket. There are public BBQs in Noorderpark, we will bring one as well and the coal, in case youd like to put something on the fire. There is a variety of supermarkets on the way to Noorderpark, in case youd like to pick something up.
DIRECTIONS
PUBILC TRANSPORT: take Metro 52 in direction of Noord. Exit at Noorderpark. Exit the station to your right and take the stairs to underpass the street to your left. Follow Adelaarsweg and take the pedestrian entrance opposite of Merelstraat.
BIKE: take any ferry going to Noord.
In case you come from West, the ferry at Ponststeiger will bring you to NDSM or Distelweg.
CAR: The IJtunnel will drop you right at Noorderpark.
Parking is free after 7pm, before that the hour costs 1,40
The exact position is: 52.390815, 4.923596 23 02. MAR 09. APR 2020
online at 36.letterspace.amsterdam
36 Days of Type is a project that invites designers, illustrators and graphic artists to express their particular interpretation of the letters and numbers of the Latin alphabet. This year letterspace decided to join the open call in order to showcase the platform, our involved speakers, and guests. From March 2nd until April 9th we will post a letter of number a day on our minisite 36.letterspace.amsterdam and our social media accounts on Twitter and Instagram.
Because of the global health crisis CoViD-19 , we are not able to facilitate our monthly meeting with the guests mentioned below.
We hope you are safe and that we will be able to pick up our programming as soon as possible.
ATYPECAL
Born and raised in Bogot, Colombia, Mnica Rojas found in design the perfect balance between practicality and art. Her eclectic work was born back during university while taking illustration, painting and photography classes. Monicas passion for typography, lettering, and calligraphy have compelled her to attend several workshops to explore diverse techniques. To showcase those experiments, she created the Instagram profile @Atypecal, a word game that portrays whats within: graphic experiments using letters, forms, and silly quotes.
3D ALPHABET
As a multi-disciplinary holistic designer, Elmar van Zyl is currently living and working in Amsterdam. He regards design as a perspective shifting and problem solving tool. He definitely excited us with his way of looking at the alphabet as three-dimensional objects that he posted on Behance. In his talk, he will grant us a look behind the curtains and talk about his creative choices involved in creating these virtual sculptures.
NOMAD UNICORN
For about a year, Ely Zanni has been a regular and welcome guest at letterspace. Born in Argentina, she came via Barcelona and London before settling in Amsterdam. Ely has a diverse portfolio of international clients and works to strengthen their brands through her bold and colourful style. Elys skills range from branding, lettering, packaging to illustration and all of them come together in her participations in past 36daysoftype.
GOING VIRAL
Our 2 speaker, the graphic designer Danil Maarleveld started sharing kinetic typography experiments on Instagram after attending a Drawbot workshop by Just van Rossum. 36 days of type turned out to be a great way to share work quickly and to grow creatively without overthinking it. After Stefan Sagmeister shared one of his letter experiments, animation requests kept pouring in. 22 19. Feb 2020
19:0021:00 at letterspace.amsterdam
TYPOMENTO
In two years of letterspace, we have not yet explored the subject of hand lettering. Now we finally have the opportunity to do so. Kevin Rooi entered our radar through his proposed cover for Renate Boeres upcoming book and we admire the cardboard cups, he customises on the fly, for his coworkers. Kevins lettering work is experimental and fresh, expressing a push to design and create. At letterspace, Kevin will share his work and discuss his project called Typomento, which explores his own position and identity as a designer.
Kevin Rooi works as a freelance typographer, designer and illustrator for a range of clients and agencies in and around Amsterdam. He was born and raised in Curaao, relocated to Aruba with his family and finally moved to the Netherlands to study graphic design. His love for drawing and painting started as a kid and until now he has been fascinated by a wide spectrum of design disciplines especially if they involve type and lettering.
In his graduation project he focused on his identity as a designer from the Caribbean and how this makes him different from his fellow Dutch designers. Under the title Typomento (a combination of Type + Papiamento), he explores his native tongue and translates it into visual language for everyone to be understood.
Supported by: 21 22. Jan 2020
19:00 21:00 at letterspace.amsterdam
AMSTERDAM TYPOGRAPHY
A year ago, a new account popped up in our Twitter-feed, @amsterdam_type, dedicated to architectural and public typography across the city of Amsterdam. Similar to our own approach, this collection is curated, yet not limited to one particular style or school. Now that Arno Verweij the creator behind @amsterdam_type, has launched a website mapping all of his Twitter posts to their location in the city, its a great opportunity for him to present his project at letterspace.
The project Amsterdam Typography started as a Twitter feed in January 2019. Particularly fascinated by the style of house numbers and name signs from the Interwar period, Arno Verweij decided to document the citys interesting letters and numerals and share them with the world. To keep track of all these photos, he has put them on a map, which has resulted in the projects website launched in December 2019.
When not crossing the city on his bike to hunt down new subjects for his Twitter-feed, Arno Verweij is developing websites and working at Stichting Proefjes, where he organises workshops for teachers and kids to introduce them in a playful way to science, physics and biology.
In his presentation, Arno will share the motivations behinds his Twitter-account and subsequent map, talk about experiences and observations, and will focus on some examples that deserve a closer look. We would be thrilled to attract some of the researchers and conservers of Type in Amsterdam to exchange expertise and maybe even share additional anecdotes. 11. Dec 2019
18:30 20:30 at letterspace.amsterdam
FIVETHIRTY.TODAY
530 type club is a recent initiative from students within the graphic design department at ArtEZ, Arnhem, who have formed an independent collective interested in all things type design. When classes are over for the day, students organize themselves at 5:30pm on a weekly basis and engage in a variety of experiments and explorations of type.
TypeClub 530 is chatting about type, time and letters, everything in between and anything else. Its members create ugly shapes and smooth letters, half finished Glyphs files and shuffled alphabets.
Five Thirty (a.k.a. FVTY, 5 Thirty, Five 30, 5 3 0) organizes workshops on a weekly basis that focus on generating new ideas in form and concept within type design. The collective can be run by anyone, allowing easy experimentation with new ideas and processes. 530 is not tied down to one way of working; a workshop one week might ignore certain conventions, while the next workshop follows totally different rules.
At letterspace.amsterdam TypeClub 530 will showcase work they have done over the past two years and introduce what they are creating at the moment. With no formal education in type design, what does this informal experimentation look like? A mini-worshop and the lecture will be presented by Kuan-ting Chen, Dongbin Han, Jonathan van Loon Benjamin McMillan.
Beer sponsor:
Glyphs App 19 20. Nov 2019
18:30 20:30 at letterspace.amsterdam
A MATTER OF PERCEPTION
Trust your eyes, they said. But why do your eyes keep fooling you? Or is it your brain thats fooling your eyes? These are the questions that brought Jasper de Waard to the field of cognitive neuropsychology. Jasper is a type designer by night, and scientific researcher by day. He investigates visual perception, attention, and learning through experimental research.
In this talk, you will learn why horizontals appear thicker than verticals, why a Roman looks back-slanted after working on an Italic for a while, why the slash through your should not be continuous, and whether the left diagonal of the V should be thicker than the right one. With a little luck, you will also learn about the brain, about how much we dont know, and about how we learned what we do know.
Jasper de Waard (Rotterdam, 1996) has been designing fonts since he was 12. He studied Liberal Arts and Sciences at Amsterdam University College and is currently in the second year of the Master Cognitive Neuropsychology at the Vrije Universiteit, where he also works as a research fellow. He has published in the scientific journal Vision about thickness perception, and on ilovetypography.com about type design. A collection of his work can be found at bureauroffa.com. 18 16. Oct 2019
18:30 20:30 at letterspace.amsterdam
A SPELL TO CAST, A SECRET TO KEEP
While some typographic thinkers believe that a typeface should not call for attention but just be a vessel for written content, typefaces can do so much more than this. Expressive type and typography can add an extra layer to verbal communication or even strengthen its message.
With striking typefaces in mind, we are exited to present Charlotte Rohdes typographical work and typefaces, which caught our attention in Amsterdams arts and cultural scene.
In her talk, Charlotte will give a brief overview over her body of work in the field of type design and present her research and craft in progress as they revolve around feminism, witchcraft and (visual) language.
Charlotte Rohde (1992, DE) is a designer currently based in Amsterdam, working on the interface of typography and art. As part of the Sandberg Design Department, she is researching on how type as a form of magic can be used to embody and shape discourses within our society. Her work reaches from designing and publishing her own typefaces and translating them into spacial installations and poetry to developing and curating platforms for experimental type design. Shes been teaching design workshops like Saturday Type Fever at HfG Karlsruhe, Captcha Mannheim and ??? Summerschool in Estonia. 17 18. Sep 2019
18:30 20:30 at letterspace.amsterdam
GRAHAM STURT (VBAT)
PEDRO ARILLA (FONTSMITH)
Since its introduction at AtypI 2016, OpenType Font Variations have been a buzzword in the typographic and type-design community. Yet some skeptical voices doubt about these variable fonts having any practicality beyond their bandwidth-saving aspects for web-use. The example of the Amsteldok Campus designed by VBAT in collaboration with Fontsmith illustrates how variable fonts can be applied in smart, useable and iconic ways. We are really excited to start the letterspace fall season with a talk by Graham Sturt and Pedro Arilla about this project.
When leading communication services network WPP decided to brand its new Amsterdam campus, they turned to VBAT to develop a name, brand identity and overall attitude. Not only did the identity need to capture the creative DNA of all 15 of WPPs Dutch agencies and their sum total of 1500 employees, it also needed to establish the campus as an important new landmark in the city of Amsterdam. The end result was a dynamic brand identity immersed into every aspect of the campus from logotype, custom typography and iconography, wayfinding to furniture, interactive installations and statement walls. Ultimately its design, particularly its use of typography, has contributed to the location as an inspiring living entity, not just another corporate office building.
The talk at letterspace will take us behind the scenes of this groundbreaking project and present the process of developing the Amsteldok interactive variable front logo.
Graham Sturt Following his love of Dutch design Graham moved to Amsterdam in 2007, exchanging his beloved Vespa in London for a classic Dutch oma fiets (grandmother bike). After joining VBAT 12 years ago, Graham assumed creative direction duties for the Amsterdam based branding design agency in June 2014, becoming a board member in July 2018.
A specialist in identity development, Graham also has extensive experience in retail, digital, packaging, typographic and broadcast design. Creatively he is always looking for new and exciting ways of engaging people with brands.
Pedro Arilla is a type designer typographer from Spain working at Fontsmith and living in London (UK). Alongside his day job at Fontsmith Pedro hosts one of the most well-known publications on typography in the Spanish language (Don Serifa), organises and teaches an international one-week type design workshop (Glglifo), and owns a small letterpress studio. 16 19. Jun 2019
18:30 20:30 at letterspace.amsterdam
TYPE IN ALL DIMENSIONS
When moving through public spaces in Amsterdam, its difficult to miss the work of Janno Hahn. His lettering on buildings, bridges, and signs resembles classical typographic styles that have been typical of the citys vernacular.
Janno makes his letters contemporary by honouring their historical style, while adding a personal flare.
The talk at letterspace will take us behind the scenes of some of his recent public works and also present some autonomous and experimental new projects.
Janno Hahn (Enkhuizen 1980) likes to call himself a semi-autodidact, even though he studied at the Graphic Lyceum in Amsterdam, the Royal Academy of Art in The Hague and the Plantin Institute of Typography in Antwerp. He left each study in the second year, deciding he had seen enough. In between those years he worked at various well known graphic design studios.
Since 2006 he operates under his own name, working in the field of printed and spatial type design, typography and graphic design. Besides commissioned work by various types of clients and collaborations, he also works on autonomous type and art projects.
You might have come across the bridge and tunnel to the Spaarndammerbuurt, the new bridges of the Hourhaven or his positive reinforcement poetry on bike lanes in Amsterdam West. 15 22. May 2019
18:30 20:30 at letterspace.amsterdam
TYPEWRITER TYPE STYLES
Thanks to the recent Footnotes issue C, we became aware of Nicolien van der Keurs fascinating research into typewriter styles and their influence on letterpress typefaces. This research started as a PhD at the University of Leiden that had been supervised by Gerard Unger. We are happy we could convince Nicolien to present a part of her research at letterspace correlating with the publication of her text. We will sell a few hardcopies of Footnotes for 20., please let us know in advance if you are interested.
In her research Nicolien van der Keur investigates the relationship between the design and production of typefaces for print and for typewriters. Central to her research is the question: how do particular styles influence one another and what are notable differences deriving from the technical limitations?
Next to the rationalisation of glyph widths, typewriters also have a limited set of signs, like punctuation marks, that forces the typist to come up with creative solutions for emphasis or creating lists.
The typewriter, both analog and digital, is making a comeback. The distinctive style of a typewriter can be mimicked with advanced OpenType features as seen in Trixie by letterror. Others like Luke Winter or lvaro Franca with his Typewriter Portraits embrace analogue machines.
Nicolien van der Keur is an independent type designer and graphic designer based in The Netherlands. After her education in graphic design she worked for several years with agencies and publishers before she founded her own studio in 1999.
Her experience with type during her work with complex books, magazines, and corporate identities sparked her interest further into how typefaces and typography reinforce each other. This curiosity directed her to the University of Reading (UK), where she received an MA degree in 2007, specialising in designing a typeface for dictionaries and other complex, high-density text environments. Nicoliens special interest is in the combination of designing typefaces and then working with them to produce a desired effect. Nicolien published the typeface Sirba with TypeTogether. 14 17. Apr 2019
18:30 20:30 at letterspace.amsterdam
COMIC SANS AND OTHER ALPHABETS
If you thought that Comic Sans is the typeface used to fill in the speech-bubbles of comics, think again. There are not enough OpenType features in the world to replace the flexibility and experienced hand of a skilled hand-writer. In cooperation with the BNO we invite Frits Jonker to introduce us to this undervalued profession. He will also present a rich collection of fabulous alphabets he created as a side-practice.
Frits Jonker is lettering comics and graphic novels since 1979 for nearly every local publisher and comic artist. Apart from this he contributed to countless publications by writing about phenomenal and curious topics, such as forgotten music genres, all sorts of visual languages and exotic sciences.
Next to hand-lettering comics, Frits creates alphabets fantastic alphabets but also alphabets based on the architecture and vernacular of Amsterdam or comic related letters.
Last but not least, all his life Frits Jonker published strictly limited fanzines about myriad subjects he is interested in.
Co-hosted by the bno:
13 13. Mar 2019
18:30 20:30 at letterspace.amsterdam
DONALD BEEKMAN DONALD ROOS
We are looking forward to a rich evening of type-related projects. Donald Beekman is known for hosting Typeradio together with Liza Enebeis, and his letters and logos are featured across the city of Amsterdam. Donald Roos recently released a book and a game that help with time management and a platform to share corporate identities with clients. In addition he makes typography for movie-titles. Together Donald and Donald run the foundry VetteLetters: a home for bold, greasy and eccentric typefaces.
Donald Beekman was born and raised in Amsterdam. After studying at the Gerrit Rietveld Academy (1979-1984) he started his graphic design and music studio dbxl.nl. Through his own musical engagement Beekman acquired a large network in the music industry for which he designed numerous logos, album artwork, flyers, posters, identities, magazines and packaging. Next to these clients, cultural institutions and restaurants, the smart drugs distributor Conscious Dreams found their way to DBXL. Donald Beekman designed many typefaces, most of them emanating from logos or artwork designed for clients. DBXL typefaces are published internationally by VetteLetters, Fontshop/Monotype and Cape-Arcona. Since 2004 Donald Beekman has been host of Typeradio, the online radio- and podcast-station on design and typography.
Donald Roos was born and raised close to Amsterdam. He studied graphic and typographic design at the Royal Academy of The Hague.
After graduating in 2001 and working as a freelancer, in 2008 he started Bureaudonald, a studio that works for clients but mainly strives to set up self initiated projects together with other professionals. One of the first projects was indie font foundry VetteLetters.
Other current projects are Brandbook.io, the ToDontCompany and Planet X Title Design. PLX Title Design is focussing on designing of title sequences for feature films and television series or even music videos.
Donald has taught at the Art Academies of Rotterdam and The Hague for more than 13 years. He is the author of Dont Read This Book.
VetteLetters, based in Amsterdam, loves food and loves fonts. VetteLetters is fascinated by kebab shops, local chinese restaurants and fish-and-chips joints not just the food but especially the shop front typography. If all other type foundries are like haute cuisine restaurants, then VetteLetters is the snackbar in the world of exclusive and expensive font foundries. So lets introduce our chefs: After a wonderful career as a dishwasher, assistant cook, some kind of designer, and last but not least type designer, Donald Roos is now one of VetteLetters CEOs. Donald DBXL Beekman is the other Donald and also the other CEO. DBXL produces as many typefases as Prince makes records. Jacques Le Bailly also known as the Baron von Fonthausen is Chief Type Tech. Dev. Dept. and we have Martin TwoPoints Lorenz, baking his fonts in the lovely climate of Barcelona. The latest additions to the VetteLetters stable are designers Henning Brehm aka Design Tourist (hailing from Berlin), and Alexandre Saumier Demers from Montreal, Canada. Vette Letters aims to design high end typography with an aura of cheap greasyness. Just the way we like it. 12 13. Feb 2019
18:30 20:30 at letterspace.amsterdam
THE PALACE OF TYPOGRAPHIC MASONRY
At TypeAmsterdam 2015 Richard Niessen laid down the first stones for the foundation of the Palace of Typographic Masonry. Since then, this imaginary collective building has produced exhibitions, lectures, a website and in Fall 2018 a massive guidebook through its warren of passages and chambers.
We are delighted that Richard Niessen will share this vision, what hes established so far and an outlook to the future of this collaborative platform. Richard will present a closer look into the department of signs that include the Labyrinth of Scripts and the Asemic Cabinet.
The encyclopaedic project The Palace of Typographic Masonry is founded by Richard Niessen in 2015 in response of the fact that the Netherlands actually lacked an institute dedicated to the graphic design profession. Where could fellow designers keep up to date on new developments, identify longer historical connections, enter into debate and show each other their work under the best possible conditions? The Palace of Typographic Masonry is based on a keenly perceptive and concerned analysis of our society and media culture.
The Palace is structured on the basis of nine themes: Sign, Symbol, Ornament, Construction, Poetics, Play, Order, Craft and Practice. It comes as no surprise that others are invited to help to build the Palace, to celebrate the depth, breadth, excitement and power of their profession. Colleagues and enthusiasts are called on to come together and form a lively structure for exchange, interaction and to build an imaginary clubhouse thats always under construction.
Richard Niessen (1972) graduated in 1996 from the Gerrit Rietveld Academy in Amsterdam and as a graphic designer he earned a name for himself with his colorful posters and expressive typography, innovative identities and his collaborations with other artists. In 2007 he created TM-City, a traveling retrospective for the Festival International de lAffiche, Chaumont, France. In 2014 he added the book and installation A Hermetic Compendium of Typographic Masonry to his body of work. Besides working in commission Niessen regularly initiates projects of his own like the publication series 1:1:1 (2010-2016). In 2015, Niessen launched The Palace of Typographic Masonry, a platform with the aim of combining experimentation and research, connecting different disciplines and embedding graphic design in a broader cultural and historical context. 11 16. Jan 2019
18:30 20:30 at letterspace.amsterdam
MULTIMODAL TYPOGRAPHY
Type was invented to communicate with the same goal as the spoken word: create understanding. But like the spoken word, type also communicates with its tone, its volume, its gestures, type is multimodal, it is integrated with other semiotic means of expression such as color, texture, three-dimensionality, or movement. In this talk Marta Cerd will present her work and the different ways it brings typography together with other disciplines.
Marta Cerd is an Amsterdam based independent artist and graphic designer. Her main body of work focuses on the boundaries between typography and illustration, and stands out for being very eclectic and flexible in style. Before founding her own studio in 2008, Marta worked in advertising agencies and design studios across Europe. On her own, she has contributed to global projects calling for design, illustration and custom typography for art, culture, editorial and advertising clients. Her work has been recognized by professional organizations including the Type Directors Club and the Art Directors Club, where she was named as an ADC Young Gun. X 12. Dec 2018
18:30 20:30 at letterspace.amsterdam
ANNUAL REVIEW HOLIDAY DRINKS
We had a busy year at letterspace and would like to take the time to thank all of our guests and speakers. In addition wed like to introduce our new studio-mate, Willen Stapel, and reflect on our own projects from the past year in a few short presentations. Sabina Chipar
Custom made typography and optically balanced logotypes is what makes brands stand out and communicate in a coherent personal way. Sabina is happy to work for the design of Juandi a corporate typography for Stupendous and collaborate with Mas Peters as a type specialist.
Diana Ovezea
Diana is currently focusing on future project , so in her place Edgar will give a short introduction to future fonts, a new and developing platform through which Diana sells three typefaces.
Willem Stapel
Studio Willem Stapel is a digital image creation studio with a focus on 3D visualisations and animations. Crossing boundaries in disciplines and between reality and fiction is a central subject in his work. Sensual and atmospheric scenes arise from placing classical themes in a contemporary context.
Johannes Verwoerd
A year of surprises; several trips to Mars, a last minute assignment from the Anne Frank House, and a rabbit that glows in the dark.
Edith Winkler
Innovation seems to arise in large extent from interaction. The design and programming of spaces is a powerful tool to stage interaction, to invoke spontaneous action and to facilitate creativity. Edith Winkler from W_architectuurstudio will share some thoughts and projects with us on the design and curation of social spaces.
Edgar Walthert
Edgar kept a lot of different type projects moving simultaneously this year: he released his typeface Logical through Bold Monday while continuing to work with them on the extension of IBM Plex. He will show how his ambitions lead to a whole set of technical issues that required new approaches in the final production of his extensive typeface. 9 14. Nov 2018
18:30 20:30 at letterspace.amsterdam
SYSTEMATICALLY SLOPPY (2003)
To venerate the work of Amsterdams celebrated type designer Bram de Does, weve invited the printer and publisher Jan de Jong from Uitgeverij de Buitenkant to share some anecdotes and to present the documentary Systematisch Slordig (Systematically Sloppy) from 2003 with English subtitles. We will also assemble a pop-up-store for the occasion with typographic publications from De Buitenkant.
Jan de Jong and De Buitenkant are an important part of The Dutch typographical scene. In addition to books by Bram de Does, there are other important books from Gerard Unger, Hansje van Halem, Mathieu Lommen, Martin Kaye and Novo Typo (our guest 7). The small printshop is located in the center of Amsterdam, and its publications are regularly awarded The Best Dutch Book Designs.
Bram de Does , born as the son of a printer in Amsterdam East, studied at the Amsterdam Graphic School and worked afterward in the printing workshop of Royal Joh. Ensched and Sons in Haarlem. When asked to design a typeface for the printing-firm, Bram de Does quit his job and worked two years on the design of Trinit knowing that this was the only way to claim royalties for his typeface. Later in collaboration with Peter Matthias Noordzij he developed the typeface Lexicon for the The Great Dictionary of the Dutch language.
His typefaces are beloved by type-designers for their great readability and human flavour and are amongst the most expensive fonts in the market. 8 24. Oct 2018
18:30 20:30 at P/////AKT
TYPE FOR GRAPHIC DESIGNERS
Though there is no actual type design department at the Gerrit Rietveld Academie, graphic design graduates continue to develop typefaces that influence the graphic-design scene and cultural publications in Amsterdam and beyond. The next letterspace will therefore highlight the ongoing work of three recent Rietveld graduates, who will discuss their research, influences and methodologies, as well as their experiences as autodidacts in an increasingly professionalising type world.
VISUAL EXCEPTIONS
Amsterdam based graphic and type designer Jolana Skorov graduated from Academy of Arts, Architecture and Design in Prague and Gerrit Rietveld Academie in Amsterdam. For her graduation project at Rietveld, she researched a lesser known period of Czech glass designer Frantisek Vizner and subsequently designed a sans-serif typeface with alternate characters inspired by his work. She further developed this typeface in conjunction with the Sculpture Cam project at studio Moniker where she currently works. Jolana also designs books using self-created or uncommon printing and binding techniques by thinking of the reader and the physicality of the medium in order to find an intriguing form.
STUDENTS DEVIATION
Wooseok Jang started to design typefaces while studying at the Gerrit Rietveld Academie from 2016 to 2018. He graduated with a library of typefaces including the experimental typeface variable text that plays with type-industries favourite new feature variable fonts and is intended for digital reading. His type design process plays with and modifies formal elements of letters, by exploiting his perspective of a non-Latin user. We will also learn in what way the education at Rietveld influenced his resulting designs. One of his typefaces Dummy Sans was used for the graduation show 2018 poster and its way finding system.
BOLD DECISIONS
Bold-Decisions is a foundry operated by Mads Wildgaard (graduating class of 2014) It has regularly released typefaces since 2015, and now produces custom typefaces with and for cultural institutions and corporations, in both Latin and Cyrillic scripts. With Lars initiated at the Rietveld in 14, and a name influenced by the school as well, the talk will be explaining the mechanism and reason of the foundry and work of Mads.
Besides explaining the basics of Bold-Decisions, it will also be a personal reasoning of how and why the Rietveld or more specifically its graduates continues to affect the contemporary type scene. 7 19. Sep 2018
18:30 20:30 at letterspace.amsterdam
THE FUTURE OF TYPOGRAPHY IS COLORFUL
In printing and typographic circles of Amsterdam, one will likely encounter the work of Mark van Wageningen. He cut his wooden type Bixa down the street from letterspace, at makerspace ZB45, and its now being used just around the corner at GWA. De Buitenkant, also situated in Oost, printed and published his Novo Typo Color Book.
It is about time that we invite Mark to present his variety of chromatic layer fonts at letterspace. He is eager to discuss his work with type designers, designers and others.
Mark van Wageningen is the founder of Novo Typo, a (typo)graphic design studio and foundry based in Amsterdam, The Netherlands.
In January 2015 Novo Typo started the Typewood / Bixa Color project. Typewood is a research project about designing, deconstructing and transforming multi-colored digital typefaces into wooden type for letterpress. In 2016, this project was followed by Hotmetaltype project Ziza. Both projects try to show the future of chromatic typography by re-inventing and deconstructing history. In March 2017, van Wageningen published the Novo Typo Color Book about the technical and editorial possibilities and challenges of contemporary chromatic typography. These achievements have been awarded by the TDC New York and ADC Netherlands among others. 6 20. Jun 2018
18:30 20:30 at letterspace.amsterdam
ANIM(MATED TYP)OGRAPHY
As designers we often take our tools as a given. Fonts are black and white, and we might decide to add color, to stack, extrude or animate them in an extra process. With new font formats such as colour fonts or the most recent craze: variable fonts, the gridlocked ways of thinking about typefaces have become more malleable.
The platform Animography by Jeroen Krielaars, is among the pioneers that keep pushing the boundaries of possibilities within font-formats. Animography locates itself today primarily in motion-design circles, since its solution for animated typefaces is currently limited to the Adobe AfterEffects environment.
We are excited to host Jeroen Krielaars as he presents his library of moving and colourful fonts, and hope that some fruitful new connections might be initiated in our space.
Jeroen Krielaars is a self taught motion designer from Amsterdam. After years in the industry he started Animography, a type-foundry specialising in animated typefaces. What started as an experimental side project is now a full-time occupation. Together with a network of type-designers, motion-designers and programmers, he is constantly exploring the combination of type and motion from different angles. 5 16. May 2018
18:30 20:30 at letterspace.amsterdam
A TYPOGRAPHIC MAGHRIBI TRIALOGUE
Since more than a decade, the Amsterdam based Khatt Foundation matches designers form different cultures to develop multilingual typographical systems. The most recent Matchmaking 3.0 in Maghrib, combined (among others) the powers of two TypeMedia alumni that both presently live and work in Amsterdam.
Laura Meseguer and Kristyan Sarkis will offer insight into the Typographic Machtmaking project and present their result: the TDC award-winning trilingual typeface Qandus.
In the Maghreb, the confluence of native cultures with different colonial periods has produced an extraordinarily diverse heritage. The history of this region and the Andalus could be told in more than twenty languages and written in any of the three common writing systems: Latin, Arabic and Tifinagh.
From this context the Typographic Matchmaking in the Maghrib Project of the Khatt Foundation came into being as a way to facilitate a cultural trialogue, as well as shed a typographic spotlight on the largely ignored writing and design traditions of the region. The specific goal of the collaboration is the research and development of tri-script font families that can communicate harmoniously. The project created an excellent opportunity for interaction and conversation between the members of all the different teams, as they researched the environment in which those scripts originated, evolved, and were used, through field trips to Marrakech, Crdoba and Granada. 4 25. Apr 2018
18:30 20:30 at letterspace.amsterdam
APPROACHES TO THE TYPEFACE DESIGN OF INUKTITUT SYLLABICS
Within the context of an oversaturated market and automated tools, type designers must now reflect on the ways they can bring something innovative or of value to the world. It now seems like a pivotal time to widen the field and to consider type systems that have been overlooked or underdeveloped. Therefore we are happy to invite David Bennewith, who will present his research into a selection of font products for Inuktitut syllabics. David runs the studio Colophon and is head of the Graphic Design Department at the Gerrit Rietveld Academy Amsterdam.
In early 2000, the Unicode Consortium published the USAC (Unified Canadian Aboriginal Syllabics) standard. This standard constitutes a set of code points comprising single characters of the whole set needed to reproduce Inuktitut syllabics, among other Canadian Aboriginal languages. Derived from phonetic analysis, Inuktitut was conceived to make the Inuit language visible in an easy to learn and comprehensible way. As a result, Inuktitut syllabics were readily adopted and popularised by many Inuit. Over the years, Inuktitut syllabics have become a co-official script (along with a version using Latin orthography) in Nunavut, the northern-most territory of Canada. In the digital age, type design software, font products, and standardisation efforts like Unicode offer ways for Inuktitut syllabics to be transmitted between many different digital devices.
This research was initiated after being invited by artist Hinrich Sachs to contribute to Fog Friend Font, an editorial framework in reference to the transformative developments occurring in the realm of writing and speaking today, as triggered by digital communication. It will be published by Humboldt Books, Milan, in September of this year.
This talk presents and compares a selection of professionally designed digital fonts, published between 2001 and 2015, that conform to the UCAS standard. It also brings together examples of other Inuktitut syllabic fonts, two distinct (yet overlapping) histories and Inuktitut syllabic fonts in (mis-)use. Describing the contexts of the fonts creation and looking at the fonts themselves this talk attempts to gather and foreground the meanings and intentions that the designers bring to their work. 14. Mar 2018
18:30 20:30 at letterspace.amsterdam
Its clear that pictographs and symbols, through the help of smartphones and emojis, have continued to assert themselves as a dominant part of our written language. Have our alphabets begun the return to an image-based or logo-graphic language?
Weve invited three speakers, whose work analyses different angles of the emoji to explore this question in both critical and refreshing ways.
TEARS OF JOY
Lilian Stolk focuses on how language becomes visual. Through her background as a historian and an artist, she observes the new visual language of emoji both from a theoretical and practical perspective. She will present her view on these symbols as a modern-day emoji expert, and consider the ways internet technologies and smartphones have changed the speed and directness of written communication.
Lilian is currently finishing her Het zonder woorden boek , over the phenomenon of image-based communication and organises The Hmm, evenings on digital visual culture.
DEMOJI
Mantas Rimkus is a graphic designer currently living and working at LAVA design studio in Amsterdam. He recently graduated from Willem de Kooning academy with the Demoji project, which was developed in collaboration with his colleagues and other artists from abroad. Widely used emojis triggered Mantas to take a deeper and more critical look at this visual communication tool. He found out that these emojis are positive, one-sided, non-critical and mainly relevant only for Western societies. As a result we miss lot of representations of critical subjects and culture-specific topics. Demoji highlights important points of critique in the otherwise beloved emojis.
DISCLOSING DINGBATS
Arthur Reinders Folmer is specialised in type design, typography and illustration. Through his type foundry, Typearture, he creates typefaces that are not just collections of glyphs, but type that tells a story.
With the Disclosure Dingbats he explores the ability of icons to do more than illustrate an action: What if they are able to reveal a meaning or tell a story? These Dingbats are a what if experiment, merging everyday usable icons with hidden messages. Consisting of relevant and irrelevant secrets, the Dingbats are filled with material to be mocked, but also explore the ability of a typeface to warp our words. 2 14. Feb 2018
18:30 20:30 at letterspace.amsterdam
GENERATING TYPOGRAPHY
Please join us on this special date to share our appreciation of type and typography. On this occasion we would love to present you the work of Danil Maarleveld. He will present his typographic experiments and generative design work, looking into how the limitations of technology enable him to develop a new-found freedom in his process.
Danil Maarleveld is a graphic designer based in Amsterdam. In 2007, he graduated from Graphic Design departmen at the Rietveld Academie with his PenJet project. This was a collaboration with fellow classmates, which showed the movement of the print head using an attached pen. With practice he began to work more directly with the limitations of movement in order to experiment with type, and through this, an adapted typeface for the PenJet emerged. This working method, using the possibilities and limitations of a new or existing tool or technique, is a source of inspiration for Daniels approach to design. In addition, he seeks out unexplored mathematical, natural and mechanical principles, as well as ways to use them in his design. This results in work that balances between machine and handmade. 1 10. Jan 2018
18:30 20:30 at letterspace.amsterdam
TRACKING KINETIC TYPOGRAPHY
We are proud to announce our inaugural letterspace lecture to take place right at the beginning of 2018. Milda Kuraityt will present her PhD research into kinetic typography, with an analysis of moving letters and their positive impact on memory and caution. We encourage everyone involved in the design of screen typography, whether online, offline or mobile, to join in this evening.
Milda Kuraityt is a Communication Design PhD student at the Faculty of Fine Arts, University of Lisbon, and a member of Costs project E-Read, which unites researchers on digital reading. Milda Kuraityt works between the fields of Typography and Psycholinguistics, running experiments that use stimuli of Kinetic Typography and an eye tracking system.
Kinetic Typography is typography on screen that includes movement. The achievements of the twentieth century technology witnessed the appearance of a number of increasingly complex categories of Kinetic Typography with a direct impact on its readability. The present research consists of a series of experiments on the legibility and readability of Kinetic Typography, using an eye tracking system to verify the hypothesis that Fluid Typography can be used in the education process. 0 13. Dec 2017
18:30 21:00 at letterspace.amsterdam
PRE-LAUNCH AND HOLIDAY DRINKS
letterspace.amsterdam opens its doors for the first time. Before we kick off our series of mostly type-based events in 2018, we would like to introduce the space, ourselves and our work. Please join us to learn more and to toast our new project. Sabina Chipar Romanian Archaic Alphabets
An overview of the Romanian Archaic Alphabets used in the 19th century, a period of transition from Cyrillic letterfoms to Latin. In this context a hybrid character design emerged. Can these peculiar shapes become an inspiration for future display typefaces?
Johannes Verwoerd Pozie Museum
Lets have a look behind the surface of the Pozie Museum on the Museumplein
Edith Winkler W. architecture n design
'My work is like telling stories, the medium is physical space'.
Edith Winkler propagates a haptic, sensory, narrative, playful as well as participatory approach towards architectural space interior design. A designprocess with W- and is an interactive process, W- and doesnt work for but with clients. W- and translates personal and unique stories to spaces that matter, make sense and fit.
Diana Ovezea 3 years, 6 families, and 321 banners later.
When the Indian Type Foundry approached Diana to design a font superfamily in 2014, she couldnt refuse. In her talk, Diana will show how this project marked the beginning of a longer cooperation and pushed her to expand her own studio, connect with new collaborators and redefine her practice.
Edgar Walthert Invisible Work
After more than 10 years working in the field of type production, Edgar likes to shine a light on some of the hidden secrets of type-engineering. We will have a look at IBM Plex, the recently developed typeface in the team of Bold Monday.
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Zeeburgerpad 51h
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Credits
CMS: Kirby 2.5.7
Typeface: IBM Plex Mono
Webdesign: Edgar Walthert
Programming: Andr Fincato
Links
Sabina Chipar Typedesign
Menno Fokma Motion Graphics Director
Tom Geraedts Director
Diana Ovezea Typedesign
Johannes Verwoerd Studio ideas typography
Edgar Walthert type graphic design
Thanks
to P////AKT, the BNO and all our participants.
Zeeburgerpad 51h
1019 AB Amsterdam
letterspace is platform situated in Amsterdam Oost, and as of 2018 is hosting a monthly series of lectures about experimentation, innovation and research in type.
As hosts, we are interested in expanding more traditional definitions of type (design) established within education programmes and institutions. We are excited to welcome a lively and diverse group of artists, designers and researchers to explore type happening in Amsterdam.
The lectures are open to the public and free. Experts, non-experts, type enthusiasts, writers, design students might be especially interested in joining.
Contact
Studio
Supported by: 24 24. Sep 2021
19:00 21:00 at GWA
It has been too long since we were able to host a lecture about type related work, made in Amsterdam.
If youve visited one of our more crowded evenings at Zeeburgerpad, you know that there is no way to provide enough distance and airflow at our studio. Luckily, the GWA reached out to us, offering to host our events at their new workspace in Amsterdam Noord at the creative hotspot NDSM.
After an introduction to the facilities of the GWA, Sabina Chipar and Martin Cadwallader will present the bespoke typeface for HS Kwartier, The Hague, which they created in collaboration with CIRCUS.
CORINE ELEMANS
GWA stands for Grafische Werkplaats Amsterdam (Graphic Workshop Amsterdam). It was founded in October 2004 in Amsterdam Oost. GWA aims to take the Dutch Graphic Heritage forward by conserving, restoring, and using letterpress material. As an open atelier, the GWA wants people to come visit, smell the ink, and touch the machines in person. Next to letterpress, the GWA offers workshops in bookbinding, etching, lino cutting, and photopolymer. Since the move to Noord, silkscreen capacities have been added to the workshop.
SABINA CHIPAR MARTIN CADWALLADER
For the up-and-coming Holland Spoor Kwartier, the creative studio CIRCUS developed a progressive and playful area brand. HS Kwartier is set to become The Hagues most radiant district with an enticing mix of working, living and leisure concepts and facilities covering 90,000 sqm. This spectacular urban playground in the heart of The Hague surely deserved its own voice, so it should come to no surprise that the branding project included a bespoke typeface, designed by Martin Cadwallader and produced by Sabina Chipar. The two presenters will allow us a close look into the process of creating a custom typeface with several weights and even a variable-font. They will reveal what inspired the industrial letterforms and how it is to work on a typeface that will be the face of a whole neighborhood.
Thanks to:
Grafische Werkplaats Amsterdam
NDSM plein 27
1033 WC Amsterdam 02. Sep 2020
18:30 20:30 at Noorderpark
After the last press-conference of the government and having an eye on the climbing CoViD-19 infections in Amsterdam, we decided to cancel our fall season at letterspace.
Even though we really enjoy all things involved in organising these lectures and we are missing you all, we dont find our informal gatherings important enough to put anyone at risk.
Since we would like to catch-up with you all, we came up with the idea of a picnic in the park, where we can follow safety measures and everyone can bring their own snacks and blanket.
We will provide bottled beverages and hand-sanitiser for everyone.
Since sharing food is not advised by the RIMV its best to bring your own food and a picnic blanket. There are public BBQs in Noorderpark, we will bring one as well and the coal, in case youd like to put something on the fire. There is a variety of supermarkets on the way to Noorderpark, in case youd like to pick something up.
DIRECTIONS
PUBILC TRANSPORT: take Metro 52 in direction of Noord. Exit at Noorderpark. Exit the station to your right and take the stairs to underpass the street to your left. Follow Adelaarsweg and take the pedestrian entrance opposite of Merelstraat.
BIKE: take any ferry going to Noord.
In case you come from West, the ferry at Ponststeiger will bring you to NDSM or Distelweg.
CAR: The IJtunnel will drop you right at Noorderpark.
Parking is free after 7pm, before that the hour costs 1,40
The exact position is: 52.390815, 4.923596 23 02. MAR 09. APR 2020
online at 36.letterspace.amsterdam
36 Days of Type is a project that invites designers, illustrators and graphic artists to express their particular interpretation of the letters and numbers of the Latin alphabet. This year letterspace decided to join the open call in order to showcase the platform, our involved speakers, and guests. From March 2nd until April 9th we will post a letter of number a day on our minisite 36.letterspace.amsterdam and our social media accounts on Twitter and Instagram.
Because of the global health crisis CoViD-19 , we are not able to facilitate our monthly meeting with the guests mentioned below.
We hope you are safe and that we will be able to pick up our programming as soon as possible.
ATYPECAL
Born and raised in Bogot, Colombia, Mnica Rojas found in design the perfect balance between practicality and art. Her eclectic work was born back during university while taking illustration, painting and photography classes. Monicas passion for typography, lettering, and calligraphy have compelled her to attend several workshops to explore diverse techniques. To showcase those experiments, she created the Instagram profile @Atypecal, a word game that portrays whats within: graphic experiments using letters, forms, and silly quotes.
3D ALPHABET
As a multi-disciplinary holistic designer, Elmar van Zyl is currently living and working in Amsterdam. He regards design as a perspective shifting and problem solving tool. He definitely excited us with his way of looking at the alphabet as three-dimensional objects that he posted on Behance. In his talk, he will grant us a look behind the curtains and talk about his creative choices involved in creating these virtual sculptures.
NOMAD UNICORN
For about a year, Ely Zanni has been a regular and welcome guest at letterspace. Born in Argentina, she came via Barcelona and London before settling in Amsterdam. Ely has a diverse portfolio of international clients and works to strengthen their brands through her bold and colourful style. Elys skills range from branding, lettering, packaging to illustration and all of them come together in her participations in past 36daysoftype.
GOING VIRAL
Our 2 speaker, the graphic designer Danil Maarleveld started sharing kinetic typography experiments on Instagram after attending a Drawbot workshop by Just van Rossum. 36 days of type turned out to be a great way to share work quickly and to grow creatively without overthinking it. After Stefan Sagmeister shared one of his letter experiments, animation requests kept pouring in. 22 19. Feb 2020
19:0021:00 at letterspace.amsterdam
TYPOMENTO
In two years of letterspace, we have not yet explored the subject of hand lettering. Now we finally have the opportunity to do so. Kevin Rooi entered our radar through his proposed cover for Renate Boeres upcoming book and we admire the cardboard cups, he customises on the fly, for his coworkers. Kevins lettering work is experimental and fresh, expressing a push to design and create. At letterspace, Kevin will share his work and discuss his project called Typomento, which explores his own position and identity as a designer.
Kevin Rooi works as a freelance typographer, designer and illustrator for a range of clients and agencies in and around Amsterdam. He was born and raised in Curaao, relocated to Aruba with his family and finally moved to the Netherlands to study graphic design. His love for drawing and painting started as a kid and until now he has been fascinated by a wide spectrum of design disciplines especially if they involve type and lettering.
In his graduation project he focused on his identity as a designer from the Caribbean and how this makes him different from his fellow Dutch designers. Under the title Typomento (a combination of Type + Papiamento), he explores his native tongue and translates it into visual language for everyone to be understood.
Supported by: 21 22. Jan 2020
19:00 21:00 at letterspace.amsterdam
AMSTERDAM TYPOGRAPHY
A year ago, a new account popped up in our Twitter-feed, @amsterdam_type, dedicated to architectural and public typography across the city of Amsterdam. Similar to our own approach, this collection is curated, yet not limited to one particular style or school. Now that Arno Verweij the creator behind @amsterdam_type, has launched a website mapping all of his Twitter posts to their location in the city, its a great opportunity for him to present his project at letterspace.
The project Amsterdam Typography started as a Twitter feed in January 2019. Particularly fascinated by the style of house numbers and name signs from the Interwar period, Arno Verweij decided to document the citys interesting letters and numerals and share them with the world. To keep track of all these photos, he has put them on a map, which has resulted in the projects website launched in December 2019.
When not crossing the city on his bike to hunt down new subjects for his Twitter-feed, Arno Verweij is developing websites and working at Stichting Proefjes, where he organises workshops for teachers and kids to introduce them in a playful way to science, physics and biology.
In his presentation, Arno will share the motivations behinds his Twitter-account and subsequent map, talk about experiences and observations, and will focus on some examples that deserve a closer look. We would be thrilled to attract some of the researchers and conservers of Type in Amsterdam to exchange expertise and maybe even share additional anecdotes. 11. Dec 2019
18:30 20:30 at letterspace.amsterdam
FIVETHIRTY.TODAY
530 type club is a recent initiative from students within the graphic design department at ArtEZ, Arnhem, who have formed an independent collective interested in all things type design. When classes are over for the day, students organize themselves at 5:30pm on a weekly basis and engage in a variety of experiments and explorations of type.
TypeClub 530 is chatting about type, time and letters, everything in between and anything else. Its members create ugly shapes and smooth letters, half finished Glyphs files and shuffled alphabets.
Five Thirty (a.k.a. FVTY, 5 Thirty, Five 30, 5 3 0) organizes workshops on a weekly basis that focus on generating new ideas in form and concept within type design. The collective can be run by anyone, allowing easy experimentation with new ideas and processes. 530 is not tied down to one way of working; a workshop one week might ignore certain conventions, while the next workshop follows totally different rules.
At letterspace.amsterdam TypeClub 530 will showcase work they have done over the past two years and introduce what they are creating at the moment. With no formal education in type design, what does this informal experimentation look like? A mini-worshop and the lecture will be presented by Kuan-ting Chen, Dongbin Han, Jonathan van Loon Benjamin McMillan.
Beer sponsor:
Glyphs App 19 20. Nov 2019
18:30 20:30 at letterspace.amsterdam
A MATTER OF PERCEPTION
Trust your eyes, they said. But why do your eyes keep fooling you? Or is it your brain thats fooling your eyes? These are the questions that brought Jasper de Waard to the field of cognitive neuropsychology. Jasper is a type designer by night, and scientific researcher by day. He investigates visual perception, attention, and learning through experimental research.
In this talk, you will learn why horizontals appear thicker than verticals, why a Roman looks back-slanted after working on an Italic for a while, why the slash through your should not be continuous, and whether the left diagonal of the V should be thicker than the right one. With a little luck, you will also learn about the brain, about how much we dont know, and about how we learned what we do know.
Jasper de Waard (Rotterdam, 1996) has been designing fonts since he was 12. He studied Liberal Arts and Sciences at Amsterdam University College and is currently in the second year of the Master Cognitive Neuropsychology at the Vrije Universiteit, where he also works as a research fellow. He has published in the scientific journal Vision about thickness perception, and on ilovetypography.com about type design. A collection of his work can be found at bureauroffa.com. 18 16. Oct 2019
18:30 20:30 at letterspace.amsterdam
A SPELL TO CAST, A SECRET TO KEEP
While some typographic thinkers believe that a typeface should not call for attention but just be a vessel for written content, typefaces can do so much more than this. Expressive type and typography can add an extra layer to verbal communication or even strengthen its message.
With striking typefaces in mind, we are exited to present Charlotte Rohdes typographical work and typefaces, which caught our attention in Amsterdams arts and cultural scene.
In her talk, Charlotte will give a brief overview over her body of work in the field of type design and present her research and craft in progress as they revolve around feminism, witchcraft and (visual) language.
Charlotte Rohde (1992, DE) is a designer currently based in Amsterdam, working on the interface of typography and art. As part of the Sandberg Design Department, she is researching on how type as a form of magic can be used to embody and shape discourses within our society. Her work reaches from designing and publishing her own typefaces and translating them into spacial installations and poetry to developing and curating platforms for experimental type design. Shes been teaching design workshops like Saturday Type Fever at HfG Karlsruhe, Captcha Mannheim and ??? Summerschool in Estonia. 17 18. Sep 2019
18:30 20:30 at letterspace.amsterdam
GRAHAM STURT (VBAT)
PEDRO ARILLA (FONTSMITH)
Since its introduction at AtypI 2016, OpenType Font Variations have been a buzzword in the typographic and type-design community. Yet some skeptical voices doubt about these variable fonts having any practicality beyond their bandwidth-saving aspects for web-use. The example of the Amsteldok Campus designed by VBAT in collaboration with Fontsmith illustrates how variable fonts can be applied in smart, useable and iconic ways. We are really excited to start the letterspace fall season with a talk by Graham Sturt and Pedro Arilla about this project.
When leading communication services network WPP decided to brand its new Amsterdam campus, they turned to VBAT to develop a name, brand identity and overall attitude. Not only did the identity need to capture the creative DNA of all 15 of WPPs Dutch agencies and their sum total of 1500 employees, it also needed to establish the campus as an important new landmark in the city of Amsterdam. The end result was a dynamic brand identity immersed into every aspect of the campus from logotype, custom typography and iconography, wayfinding to furniture, interactive installations and statement walls. Ultimately its design, particularly its use of typography, has contributed to the location as an inspiring living entity, not just another corporate office building.
The talk at letterspace will take us behind the scenes of this groundbreaking project and present the process of developing the Amsteldok interactive variable front logo.
Graham Sturt Following his love of Dutch design Graham moved to Amsterdam in 2007, exchanging his beloved Vespa in London for a classic Dutch oma fiets (grandmother bike). After joining VBAT 12 years ago, Graham assumed creative direction duties for the Amsterdam based branding design agency in June 2014, becoming a board member in July 2018.
A specialist in identity development, Graham also has extensive experience in retail, digital, packaging, typographic and broadcast design. Creatively he is always looking for new and exciting ways of engaging people with brands.
Pedro Arilla is a type designer typographer from Spain working at Fontsmith and living in London (UK). Alongside his day job at Fontsmith Pedro hosts one of the most well-known publications on typography in the Spanish language (Don Serifa), organises and teaches an international one-week type design workshop (Glglifo), and owns a small letterpress studio. 16 19. Jun 2019
18:30 20:30 at letterspace.amsterdam
TYPE IN ALL DIMENSIONS
When moving through public spaces in Amsterdam, its difficult to miss the work of Janno Hahn. His lettering on buildings, bridges, and signs resembles classical typographic styles that have been typical of the citys vernacular.
Janno makes his letters contemporary by honouring their historical style, while adding a personal flare.
The talk at letterspace will take us behind the scenes of some of his recent public works and also present some autonomous and experimental new projects.
Janno Hahn (Enkhuizen 1980) likes to call himself a semi-autodidact, even though he studied at the Graphic Lyceum in Amsterdam, the Royal Academy of Art in The Hague and the Plantin Institute of Typography in Antwerp. He left each study in the second year, deciding he had seen enough. In between those years he worked at various well known graphic design studios.
Since 2006 he operates under his own name, working in the field of printed and spatial type design, typography and graphic design. Besides commissioned work by various types of clients and collaborations, he also works on autonomous type and art projects.
You might have come across the bridge and tunnel to the Spaarndammerbuurt, the new bridges of the Hourhaven or his positive reinforcement poetry on bike lanes in Amsterdam West. 15 22. May 2019
18:30 20:30 at letterspace.amsterdam
TYPEWRITER TYPE STYLES
Thanks to the recent Footnotes issue C, we became aware of Nicolien van der Keurs fascinating research into typewriter styles and their influence on letterpress typefaces. This research started as a PhD at the University of Leiden that had been supervised by Gerard Unger. We are happy we could convince Nicolien to present a part of her research at letterspace correlating with the publication of her text. We will sell a few hardcopies of Footnotes for 20., please let us know in advance if you are interested.
In her research Nicolien van der Keur investigates the relationship between the design and production of typefaces for print and for typewriters. Central to her research is the question: how do particular styles influence one another and what are notable differences deriving from the technical limitations?
Next to the rationalisation of glyph widths, typewriters also have a limited set of signs, like punctuation marks, that forces the typist to come up with creative solutions for emphasis or creating lists.
The typewriter, both analog and digital, is making a comeback. The distinctive style of a typewriter can be mimicked with advanced OpenType features as seen in Trixie by letterror. Others like Luke Winter or lvaro Franca with his Typewriter Portraits embrace analogue machines.
Nicolien van der Keur is an independent type designer and graphic designer based in The Netherlands. After her education in graphic design she worked for several years with agencies and publishers before she founded her own studio in 1999.
Her experience with type during her work with complex books, magazines, and corporate identities sparked her interest further into how typefaces and typography reinforce each other. This curiosity directed her to the University of Reading (UK), where she received an MA degree in 2007, specialising in designing a typeface for dictionaries and other complex, high-density text environments. Nicoliens special interest is in the combination of designing typefaces and then working with them to produce a desired effect. Nicolien published the typeface Sirba with TypeTogether. 14 17. Apr 2019
18:30 20:30 at letterspace.amsterdam
Ninox database 2 5 8th . COMIC SANS AND OTHER ALPHABETS
If you thought that Comic Sans is the typeface used to fill in the speech-bubbles of comics, think again. There are not enough OpenType features in the world to replace the flexibility and experienced hand of a skilled hand-writer. In cooperation with the BNO we invite Frits Jonker to introduce us to this undervalued profession. He will also present a rich collection of fabulous alphabets he created as a side-practice. Letterspace 1 6 0 Taking Notes Made Easy Class
Frits Jonker is lettering comics and graphic novels since 1979 for nearly every local publisher and comic artist. Apart from this he contributed to countless publications by writing about phenomenal and curious topics, such as forgotten music genres, all sorts of visual languages and exotic sciences.
Next to hand-lettering comics, Frits creates alphabets fantastic alphabets but also alphabets based on the architecture and vernacular of Amsterdam or comic related letters.
Last but not least, all his life Frits Jonker published strictly limited fanzines about myriad subjects he is interested in.
Co-hosted by the bno:
13 13. Mar 2019
18:30 20:30 at letterspace.amsterdam
DONALD BEEKMAN DONALD ROOS
We are looking forward to a rich evening of type-related projects. Donald Beekman is known for hosting Typeradio together with Liza Enebeis, and his letters and logos are featured across the city of Amsterdam. Donald Roos recently released a book and a game that help with time management and a platform to share corporate identities with clients. In addition he makes typography for movie-titles. Together Donald and Donald run the foundry VetteLetters: a home for bold, greasy and eccentric typefaces.
Donald Beekman was born and raised in Amsterdam. After studying at the Gerrit Rietveld Academy (1979-1984) he started his graphic design and music studio dbxl.nl. Through his own musical engagement Beekman acquired a large network in the music industry for which he designed numerous logos, album artwork, flyers, posters, identities, magazines and packaging. Next to these clients, cultural institutions and restaurants, the smart drugs distributor Conscious Dreams found their way to DBXL. Donald Beekman designed many typefaces, most of them emanating from logos or artwork designed for clients. DBXL typefaces are published internationally by VetteLetters, Fontshop/Monotype and Cape-Arcona. Since 2004 Donald Beekman has been host of Typeradio, the online radio- and podcast-station on design and typography.
Donald Roos was born and raised close to Amsterdam. He studied graphic and typographic design at the Royal Academy of The Hague.
After graduating in 2001 and working as a freelancer, in 2008 he started Bureaudonald, a studio that works for clients but mainly strives to set up self initiated projects together with other professionals. One of the first projects was indie font foundry VetteLetters.
Other current projects are Brandbook.io, the ToDontCompany and Planet X Title Design. PLX Title Design is focussing on designing of title sequences for feature films and television series or even music videos.
Donald has taught at the Art Academies of Rotterdam and The Hague for more than 13 years. He is the author of Dont Read This Book.
VetteLetters, based in Amsterdam, loves food and loves fonts. VetteLetters is fascinated by kebab shops, local chinese restaurants and fish-and-chips joints not just the food but especially the shop front typography. If all other type foundries are like haute cuisine restaurants, then VetteLetters is the snackbar in the world of exclusive and expensive font foundries. So lets introduce our chefs: After a wonderful career as a dishwasher, assistant cook, some kind of designer, and last but not least type designer, Donald Roos is now one of VetteLetters CEOs. Donald DBXL Beekman is the other Donald and also the other CEO. DBXL produces as many typefases as Prince makes records. Jacques Le Bailly also known as the Baron von Fonthausen is Chief Type Tech. Dev. Dept. and we have Martin TwoPoints Lorenz, baking his fonts in the lovely climate of Barcelona. The latest additions to the VetteLetters stable are designers Henning Brehm aka Design Tourist (hailing from Berlin), and Alexandre Saumier Demers from Montreal, Canada. Vette Letters aims to design high end typography with an aura of cheap greasyness. Just the way we like it. 12 13. Feb 2019
18:30 20:30 at letterspace.amsterdam
THE PALACE OF TYPOGRAPHIC MASONRY
At TypeAmsterdam 2015 Richard Niessen laid down the first stones for the foundation of the Palace of Typographic Masonry. Since then, this imaginary collective building has produced exhibitions, lectures, a website and in Fall 2018 a massive guidebook through its warren of passages and chambers.
We are delighted that Richard Niessen will share this vision, what hes established so far and an outlook to the future of this collaborative platform. Richard will present a closer look into the department of signs that include the Labyrinth of Scripts and the Asemic Cabinet.
The encyclopaedic project The Palace of Typographic Masonry is founded by Richard Niessen in 2015 in response of the fact that the Netherlands actually lacked an institute dedicated to the graphic design profession. Where could fellow designers keep up to date on new developments, identify longer historical connections, enter into debate and show each other their work under the best possible conditions? The Palace of Typographic Masonry is based on a keenly perceptive and concerned analysis of our society and media culture.
The Palace is structured on the basis of nine themes: Sign, Symbol, Ornament, Construction, Poetics, Play, Order, Craft and Practice. It comes as no surprise that others are invited to help to build the Palace, to celebrate the depth, breadth, excitement and power of their profession. Colleagues and enthusiasts are called on to come together and form a lively structure for exchange, interaction and to build an imaginary clubhouse thats always under construction.
Richard Niessen (1972) graduated in 1996 from the Gerrit Rietveld Academy in Amsterdam and as a graphic designer he earned a name for himself with his colorful posters and expressive typography, innovative identities and his collaborations with other artists. In 2007 he created TM-City, a traveling retrospective for the Festival International de lAffiche, Chaumont, France. In 2014 he added the book and installation A Hermetic Compendium of Typographic Masonry to his body of work. Besides working in commission Niessen regularly initiates projects of his own like the publication series 1:1:1 (2010-2016). In 2015, Niessen launched The Palace of Typographic Masonry, a platform with the aim of combining experimentation and research, connecting different disciplines and embedding graphic design in a broader cultural and historical context. 11 16. Jan 2019
18:30 20:30 at letterspace.amsterdam
MULTIMODAL TYPOGRAPHY
Type was invented to communicate with the same goal as the spoken word: create understanding. But like the spoken word, type also communicates with its tone, its volume, its gestures, type is multimodal, it is integrated with other semiotic means of expression such as color, texture, three-dimensionality, or movement. In this talk Marta Cerd will present her work and the different ways it brings typography together with other disciplines.
Marta Cerd is an Amsterdam based independent artist and graphic designer. Her main body of work focuses on the boundaries between typography and illustration, and stands out for being very eclectic and flexible in style. Before founding her own studio in 2008, Marta worked in advertising agencies and design studios across Europe. On her own, she has contributed to global projects calling for design, illustration and custom typography for art, culture, editorial and advertising clients. Her work has been recognized by professional organizations including the Type Directors Club and the Art Directors Club, where she was named as an ADC Young Gun. X 12. Dec 2018
18:30 20:30 at letterspace.amsterdam
ANNUAL REVIEW HOLIDAY DRINKS
We had a busy year at letterspace and would like to take the time to thank all of our guests and speakers. In addition wed like to introduce our new studio-mate, Willen Stapel, and reflect on our own projects from the past year in a few short presentations. Sabina Chipar
Custom made typography and optically balanced logotypes is what makes brands stand out and communicate in a coherent personal way. Sabina is happy to work for the design of Juandi a corporate typography for Stupendous and collaborate with Mas Peters as a type specialist.
Diana Ovezea
Diana is currently focusing on future project , so in her place Edgar will give a short introduction to future fonts, a new and developing platform through which Diana sells three typefaces.
Willem Stapel
Studio Willem Stapel is a digital image creation studio with a focus on 3D visualisations and animations. Crossing boundaries in disciplines and between reality and fiction is a central subject in his work. Sensual and atmospheric scenes arise from placing classical themes in a contemporary context.
Johannes Verwoerd
A year of surprises; several trips to Mars, a last minute assignment from the Anne Frank House, and a rabbit that glows in the dark.
Edith Winkler
Innovation seems to arise in large extent from interaction. The design and programming of spaces is a powerful tool to stage interaction, to invoke spontaneous action and to facilitate creativity. Edith Winkler from W_architectuurstudio will share some thoughts and projects with us on the design and curation of social spaces.
Edgar Walthert
Edgar kept a lot of different type projects moving simultaneously this year: he released his typeface Logical through Bold Monday while continuing to work with them on the extension of IBM Plex. He will show how his ambitions lead to a whole set of technical issues that required new approaches in the final production of his extensive typeface. 9 14. Nov 2018
18:30 20:30 at letterspace.amsterdam
SYSTEMATICALLY SLOPPY (2003)
To venerate the work of Amsterdams celebrated type designer Bram de Does, weve invited the printer and publisher Jan de Jong from Uitgeverij de Buitenkant to share some anecdotes and to present the documentary Systematisch Slordig (Systematically Sloppy) from 2003 with English subtitles. We will also assemble a pop-up-store for the occasion with typographic publications from De Buitenkant.
Jan de Jong and De Buitenkant are an important part of The Dutch typographical scene. In addition to books by Bram de Does, there are other important books from Gerard Unger, Hansje van Halem, Mathieu Lommen, Martin Kaye and Novo Typo (our guest 7). The small printshop is located in the center of Amsterdam, and its publications are regularly awarded The Best Dutch Book Designs.
Bram de Does , born as the son of a printer in Amsterdam East, studied at the Amsterdam Graphic School and worked afterward in the printing workshop of Royal Joh. Ensched and Sons in Haarlem. When asked to design a typeface for the printing-firm, Bram de Does quit his job and worked two years on the design of Trinit knowing that this was the only way to claim royalties for his typeface. Later in collaboration with Peter Matthias Noordzij he developed the typeface Lexicon for the The Great Dictionary of the Dutch language.
His typefaces are beloved by type-designers for their great readability and human flavour and are amongst the most expensive fonts in the market. 8 24. Oct 2018
18:30 20:30 at P/////AKT
TYPE FOR GRAPHIC DESIGNERS
Though there is no actual type design department at the Gerrit Rietveld Academie, graphic design graduates continue to develop typefaces that influence the graphic-design scene and cultural publications in Amsterdam and beyond. The next letterspace will therefore highlight the ongoing work of three recent Rietveld graduates, who will discuss their research, influences and methodologies, as well as their experiences as autodidacts in an increasingly professionalising type world.
VISUAL EXCEPTIONS
Amsterdam based graphic and type designer Jolana Skorov graduated from Academy of Arts, Architecture and Design in Prague and Gerrit Rietveld Academie in Amsterdam. For her graduation project at Rietveld, she researched a lesser known period of Czech glass designer Frantisek Vizner and subsequently designed a sans-serif typeface with alternate characters inspired by his work. She further developed this typeface in conjunction with the Sculpture Cam project at studio Moniker where she currently works. Jolana also designs books using self-created or uncommon printing and binding techniques by thinking of the reader and the physicality of the medium in order to find an intriguing form.
STUDENTS DEVIATION
Wooseok Jang started to design typefaces while studying at the Gerrit Rietveld Academie from 2016 to 2018. He graduated with a library of typefaces including the experimental typeface variable text that plays with type-industries favourite new feature variable fonts and is intended for digital reading. His type design process plays with and modifies formal elements of letters, by exploiting his perspective of a non-Latin user. We will also learn in what way the education at Rietveld influenced his resulting designs. One of his typefaces Dummy Sans was used for the graduation show 2018 poster and its way finding system.
BOLD DECISIONS
Bold-Decisions is a foundry operated by Mads Wildgaard (graduating class of 2014) It has regularly released typefaces since 2015, and now produces custom typefaces with and for cultural institutions and corporations, in both Latin and Cyrillic scripts. With Lars initiated at the Rietveld in 14, and a name influenced by the school as well, the talk will be explaining the mechanism and reason of the foundry and work of Mads.
Besides explaining the basics of Bold-Decisions, it will also be a personal reasoning of how and why the Rietveld or more specifically its graduates continues to affect the contemporary type scene. 7 19. Sep 2018
18:30 20:30 at letterspace.amsterdam
THE FUTURE OF TYPOGRAPHY IS COLORFUL
In printing and typographic circles of Amsterdam, one will likely encounter the work of Mark van Wageningen. He cut his wooden type Bixa down the street from letterspace, at makerspace ZB45, and its now being used just around the corner at GWA. De Buitenkant, also situated in Oost, printed and published his Novo Typo Color Book.
It is about time that we invite Mark to present his variety of chromatic layer fonts at letterspace. He is eager to discuss his work with type designers, designers and others.
Mark van Wageningen is the founder of Novo Typo, a (typo)graphic design studio and foundry based in Amsterdam, The Netherlands.
In January 2015 Novo Typo started the Typewood / Bixa Color project. Typewood is a research project about designing, deconstructing and transforming multi-colored digital typefaces into wooden type for letterpress. In 2016, this project was followed by Hotmetaltype project Ziza. Both projects try to show the future of chromatic typography by re-inventing and deconstructing history. In March 2017, van Wageningen published the Novo Typo Color Book about the technical and editorial possibilities and challenges of contemporary chromatic typography. These achievements have been awarded by the TDC New York and ADC Netherlands among others. 6 20. Jun 2018
18:30 20:30 at letterspace.amsterdam
ANIM(MATED TYP)OGRAPHY
As designers we often take our tools as a given. Fonts are black and white, and we might decide to add color, to stack, extrude or animate them in an extra process. With new font formats such as colour fonts or the most recent craze: variable fonts, the gridlocked ways of thinking about typefaces have become more malleable.
The platform Animography by Jeroen Krielaars, is among the pioneers that keep pushing the boundaries of possibilities within font-formats. Animography locates itself today primarily in motion-design circles, since its solution for animated typefaces is currently limited to the Adobe AfterEffects environment.
We are excited to host Jeroen Krielaars as he presents his library of moving and colourful fonts, and hope that some fruitful new connections might be initiated in our space.
Jeroen Krielaars is a self taught motion designer from Amsterdam. After years in the industry he started Animography, a type-foundry specialising in animated typefaces. What started as an experimental side project is now a full-time occupation. Together with a network of type-designers, motion-designers and programmers, he is constantly exploring the combination of type and motion from different angles. Letterspace 1 6 0 Taking Notes Made Easy Free 5 16. May 2018
18:30 20:30 at letterspace.amsterdam
A TYPOGRAPHIC MAGHRIBI TRIALOGUE
Since more than a decade, the Amsterdam based Khatt Foundation matches designers form different cultures to develop multilingual typographical systems. The most recent Matchmaking 3.0 in Maghrib, combined (among others) the powers of two TypeMedia alumni that both presently live and work in Amsterdam.
Laura Meseguer and Kristyan Sarkis will offer insight into the Typographic Machtmaking project and present their result: the TDC award-winning trilingual typeface Qandus.
In the Maghreb, the confluence of native cultures with different colonial periods has produced an extraordinarily diverse heritage. The history of this region and the Andalus could be told in more than twenty languages and written in any of the three common writing systems: Latin, Arabic and Tifinagh.
From this context the Typographic Matchmaking in the Maghrib Project of the Khatt Foundation came into being as a way to facilitate a cultural trialogue, as well as shed a typographic spotlight on the largely ignored writing and design traditions of the region. The specific goal of the collaboration is the research and development of tri-script font families that can communicate harmoniously. The project created an excellent opportunity for interaction and conversation between the members of all the different teams, as they researched the environment in which those scripts originated, evolved, and were used, through field trips to Marrakech, Crdoba and Granada. 4 25. Apr 2018
18:30 20:30 at letterspace.amsterdam
APPROACHES TO THE TYPEFACE DESIGN OF INUKTITUT SYLLABICS
Within the context of an oversaturated market and automated tools, type designers must now reflect on the ways they can bring something innovative or of value to the world. It now seems like a pivotal time to widen the field and to consider type systems that have been overlooked or underdeveloped. Therefore we are happy to invite David Bennewith, who will present his research into a selection of font products for Inuktitut syllabics. David runs the studio Colophon and is head of the Graphic Design Department at the Gerrit Rietveld Academy Amsterdam.
In early 2000, the Unicode Consortium published the USAC (Unified Canadian Aboriginal Syllabics) standard. This standard constitutes a set of code points comprising single characters of the whole set needed to reproduce Inuktitut syllabics, among other Canadian Aboriginal languages. Derived from phonetic analysis, Inuktitut was conceived to make the Inuit language visible in an easy to learn and comprehensible way. As a result, Inuktitut syllabics were readily adopted and popularised by many Inuit. Over the years, Inuktitut syllabics have become a co-official script (along with a version using Latin orthography) in Nunavut, the northern-most territory of Canada. In the digital age, type design software, font products, and standardisation efforts like Unicode offer ways for Inuktitut syllabics to be transmitted between many different digital devices.
This research was initiated after being invited by artist Hinrich Sachs to contribute to Fog Friend Font, an editorial framework in reference to the transformative developments occurring in the realm of writing and speaking today, as triggered by digital communication. It will be published by Humboldt Books, Milan, in September of this year.
This talk presents and compares a selection of professionally designed digital fonts, published between 2001 and 2015, that conform to the UCAS standard. It also brings together examples of other Inuktitut syllabic fonts, two distinct (yet overlapping) histories and Inuktitut syllabic fonts in (mis-)use. Describing the contexts of the fonts creation and looking at the fonts themselves this talk attempts to gather and foreground the meanings and intentions that the designers bring to their work. 14. Mar 2018
18:30 20:30 at letterspace.amsterdam
Its clear that pictographs and symbols, through the help of smartphones and emojis, have continued to assert themselves as a dominant part of our written language. Have our alphabets begun the return to an image-based or logo-graphic language?
Weve invited three speakers, whose work analyses different angles of the emoji to explore this question in both critical and refreshing ways.
TEARS OF JOY
Lilian Stolk focuses on how language becomes visual. Through her background as a historian and an artist, she observes the new visual language of emoji both from a theoretical and practical perspective. She will present her view on these symbols as a modern-day emoji expert, and consider the ways internet technologies and smartphones have changed the speed and directness of written communication.
Lilian is currently finishing her Het zonder woorden boek , over the phenomenon of image-based communication and organises The Hmm, evenings on digital visual culture.
DEMOJI
Mantas Rimkus is a graphic designer currently living and working at LAVA design studio in Amsterdam. He recently graduated from Willem de Kooning academy with the Demoji project, which was developed in collaboration with his colleagues and other artists from abroad. Widely used emojis triggered Mantas to take a deeper and more critical look at this visual communication tool. He found out that these emojis are positive, one-sided, non-critical and mainly relevant only for Western societies. As a result we miss lot of representations of critical subjects and culture-specific topics. Demoji highlights important points of critique in the otherwise beloved emojis.
DISCLOSING DINGBATS
Arthur Reinders Folmer is specialised in type design, typography and illustration. Through his type foundry, Typearture, he creates typefaces that are not just collections of glyphs, but type that tells a story.
With the Disclosure Dingbats he explores the ability of icons to do more than illustrate an action: What if they are able to reveal a meaning or tell a story? These Dingbats are a what if experiment, merging everyday usable icons with hidden messages. Consisting of relevant and irrelevant secrets, the Dingbats are filled with material to be mocked, but also explore the ability of a typeface to warp our words. 2 14. Feb 2018
18:30 20:30 at letterspace.amsterdam
GENERATING TYPOGRAPHY
Please join us on this special date to share our appreciation of type and typography. On this occasion we would love to present you the work of Danil Maarleveld. He will present his typographic experiments and generative design work, looking into how the limitations of technology enable him to develop a new-found freedom in his process.
Danil Maarleveld is a graphic designer based in Amsterdam. In 2007, he graduated from Graphic Design departmen at the Rietveld Academie with his PenJet project. This was a collaboration with fellow classmates, which showed the movement of the print head using an attached pen. With practice he began to work more directly with the limitations of movement in order to experiment with type, and through this, an adapted typeface for the PenJet emerged. This working method, using the possibilities and limitations of a new or existing tool or technique, is a source of inspiration for Daniels approach to design. In addition, he seeks out unexplored mathematical, natural and mechanical principles, as well as ways to use them in his design. This results in work that balances between machine and handmade. 1 10. Jan 2018
18:30 20:30 at letterspace.amsterdam
TRACKING KINETIC TYPOGRAPHY
We are proud to announce our inaugural letterspace lecture to take place right at the beginning of 2018. Milda Kuraityt will present her PhD research into kinetic typography, with an analysis of moving letters and their positive impact on memory and caution. We encourage everyone involved in the design of screen typography, whether online, offline or mobile, to join in this evening.
Milda Kuraityt is a Communication Design PhD student at the Faculty of Fine Arts, University of Lisbon, and a member of Costs project E-Read, which unites researchers on digital reading. Milda Kuraityt works between the fields of Typography and Psycholinguistics, running experiments that use stimuli of Kinetic Typography and an eye tracking system.
Kinetic Typography is typography on screen that includes movement. The achievements of the twentieth century technology witnessed the appearance of a number of increasingly complex categories of Kinetic Typography with a direct impact on its readability. The present research consists of a series of experiments on the legibility and readability of Kinetic Typography, using an eye tracking system to verify the hypothesis that Fluid Typography can be used in the education process. 0 13. Dec 2017
18:30 21:00 at letterspace.amsterdam
PRE-LAUNCH AND HOLIDAY DRINKS
letterspace.amsterdam opens its doors for the first time. Before we kick off our series of mostly type-based events in 2018, we would like to introduce the space, ourselves and our work. Please join us to learn more and to toast our new project. Sabina Chipar Romanian Archaic Alphabets
An overview of the Romanian Archaic Alphabets used in the 19th century, a period of transition from Cyrillic letterfoms to Latin. In this context a hybrid character design emerged. Can these peculiar shapes become an inspiration for future display typefaces?
Johannes Verwoerd Pozie Museum
Lets have a look behind the surface of the Pozie Museum on the Museumplein
Edith Winkler W. architecture n design
'My work is like telling stories, the medium is physical space'.
Edith Winkler propagates a haptic, sensory, narrative, playful as well as participatory approach towards architectural space interior design. A designprocess with W- and is an interactive process, W- and doesnt work for but with clients. W- and translates personal and unique stories to spaces that matter, make sense and fit.
Diana Ovezea 3 years, 6 families, and 321 banners later.
When the Indian Type Foundry approached Diana to design a font superfamily in 2014, she couldnt refuse. In her talk, Diana will show how this project marked the beginning of a longer cooperation and pushed her to expand her own studio, connect with new collaborators and redefine her practice.
Edgar Walthert Invisible Work
After more than 10 years working in the field of type production, Edgar likes to shine a light on some of the hidden secrets of type-engineering. We will have a look at IBM Plex, the recently developed typeface in the team of Bold Monday.
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Credits
CMS: Kirby 2.5.7
Typeface: IBM Plex Mono
Webdesign: Edgar Walthert
Programming: Andr Fincato
Links
Sabina Chipar Typedesign
Menno Fokma Motion Graphics Director
Tom Geraedts Director
Diana Ovezea Typedesign
Johannes Verwoerd Studio ideas typography
Edgar Walthert type graphic design
Thanks
to P////AKT, the BNO and all our participants.