A really nice alchemy ran through that Summer School workshop on sunday;
by the time I picked up my camera, I went back outside to find people who didn’t know each other performing
words and letters, and brainstorming on possible messages involving alternative post-Olympic messages
and the Pussy Riot.

The Free Pussy Riot one, below, has since been very broadly shared by Amnesty International UK,
amongst others, on Twitter.

The workshop was curated by George Vasey;
Summer School was curated by Rosie Cooper a& realised by Fay Nicolson.

Want to protest? Tell a story?
We are looking for between 10-15 volunteers to join us for a performative typographic workshop
at the Gerald Moore gallery on Sunday August the 12th. Working with the body’s potential
to form new words through movement and gesture, it will be your chance to take part
in a living work of art.

I will be leading a three hour workshop and participants will be invited to work together to create
a collaborative public performance on the day.

Sunday 12th August 2012
12-5pm

Workshop, 12th of August 2012

We want people to bring ideas along and work together as a group. It will be a fun day, and we will provide lunch and refreshments as well as a souvenir.

The workshop curated by George Vasey
Summer School is curated by Rosie Cooper and realised by Fay Nicolson

Booklet designed by Kaisa Lassinaro

http://www.geraldmooregallery.org/sub-links/letterform-for-the-ephemeral-expanded/

Sunday 12th August
The workshop starts at 12pm; phrases will be performed from 3pm
Gerald Moore Gallery at Eltham College
Mottingham Lane
Mottingham
SE9 4QF

T. 020 8857 0448
E. info [at] geraldmooregallery.org

By train:
The nearest train station is Mottingham or Grove Park. Direct trains take 20 minutes from London Bridge or 15 minutes from New Cross.

Other options:
Parking is available on site.
The 136 bus goes from Peckham to nearby Grove Park.

This picture of human arabic typography, reading تضاريس/Relief/Tadariss, was taken on the first day of a seminar on 3D typography I gave at the Académie Libanaise des Beaux-Arts in Beirut, Lebanon.

Working with Masters students in Art Direction and Multimedia, we a created choreography-based pluri-alphabetic piece allowing a group of people posing as human letterforms to express a word in English, then in French, and finally in Arabic in a few moves, reflecting on the Lebanese multi-lingual culture.

Alba 75 ans

The ALBA, where I was giving a one-week seminar on typography last month,
is celebrating its 75th anniversary next week.

For this occasion, the school asked me and the students to prepare something
to go on the massive banner that will cover the building during the festivities;
above is a sneak pic of the making of.
More soon.

26 choreographic micro-pieces

More here.

TYPOTAGE invites Michael von Aichberger, Amandine Alessandra, Bela Borsodi, Alexander Branczyk, Andrew Byrom, Arnold Dreyblatt, Götz Gramlich, Sascha Grewe, MAGMA Brand Design, Ebon Heath, Susan Hefuna, Monika Heineck, Aoyama Hina, Domingo Kdekilo, René Knip, Vladimir Koncar, Eric Ku, Pantea Lachin, Sebastian Lemm, Thomas Mayfried, Niessen & de Vries, Julius Popp, Lisa Rienermann, Camilo Rojas, Stefan Sagmeister, Lee Stokes, Reona Ueda, Ralph Ueltzhöffer, usus,Bembo’s Zoo, zwölf to exhibit their typographic work at the Museum of the Printing Arts of Leipzig, Germany.

Workshops and Museum of the Printing Arts Leipzig
May, 8th – July, 17th 2011

http://www.druckkunst-museum.de/home.html