Paper&People

BREAKING NEWS

24.10

Workshop curated by Patrick Thomas

10:00–16:00Paper&PeopleParticipants will make visual responses from the day’s newspapers. Through sampling, remix, hacking and the de/construction of headlines, images and articles, they will turn the news into their own interpretations and visual narratives. The work will be collected in editions of black-and-white DIN A5 booklets.Participants are advised to bring:• Laptop, smartphone (with camera) and/or digital camera, USB stick• Image and text editing software• Black drawing or writing tools (pencils, markers, felt- or fibre-tip pens, ballpoints, etc.), pocket knife, rulerThe number of participants is limited. →SubscribeThis event will be held in English.

TYPE DESIGN FOR NON-TYPE DESIGNERS

22.10–23.10

Workshop curated by Matteo Bologna e Stefano Pellone

10:00–18:00Paper&PeopleHave you ever wanted to design your own typeface, but didn't know where to start?This intensive weekend workshop is a great opportunity to start designing typefaces. Go beyond choosing the usual fonts from the font menu and create your own! In this two-day course you will learn the basics of designing and generating a variable font with the type design software Glyphs (only for Mac).In the Thursday session we will focus on the basics of creating a font. We'll look at how to design a simple set of uppercase letters, how to effectively manage letter spacing, how to integrate diacritics, and how to use punctuation.Friday we will create a bold version of the same typeface, develop a variable font, and animate it for use in a web browser or desktop application.→Subscribe

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