Some of my video and photography-based typographic work will be shown by the Word Art Collective
at the Hoxton Arches from Wednesday 21st November to Saturday 8th December 2012.

The Word Art Collective is a non-profit initiative established by a group of curators and writers based in London, generously supported by the European Commission and partner gallery Hoxton Arches.

The show is curated as an exhibition of art and design by artists whose work explores the theme of European identity, taking as its base an interest in language.

Venue
The exhibition is to be held at Hoxton Arches, Arch 402, on the edge of Shoreditch.
Arch 402
Cremer Street
London
E2 8HD

Opening hours
The exhibition will be open to the public from Wednesday 21st November to Saturday 8th December.

Monday: Closed
Tuesday: Closed
Wednesday: 11am – 6pm
Thursday: 11am – 9pm
Friday: 11am – 6pm
Saturday: 11am – 6pm
Sunday: 11am – 6pm

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.

Last December, DesignMarketo was invited to show its first retrospection (yes, somewhere between a retrospective and an introspection, it’s a retrospection), DesignMarketo en Barcelona at Otrascosas de Villarrosas gallery in Barcelona in December 2011. The exhibition space looked amazing, designed by
Lars Frideen and Jordi Canudas (waiting for pictures here! Anyone?), and featured a variety of products launched during various events organised, the BookSetting poster being one of them.

On this occasion, DesignMarketo also launched its first book, (designed by DesignMarketo themselves!) presenting designers, products and events from the main events organised so far. It includes an introduction text by Brit Leissler and the photographs I’ve been taking for DesignMarketo those past 3 years.

A4, 64pages, printed laser & Riso as an edition of 100 only.
Get it from here!

During the Sofia Design Week, DesignMarketo will present Lemonade For All, a new collection of specially commissioned products made by a selection of international designers. The new collection will be presented in their pop up shop/workshop, where they will be handing out freshly home-made lemonade to visitors.

For this occasion, I’m giving a cooking workshop entitles When life gives you bulgur, make lemonade, a twisted interpretation of the popular saying about doing the best of what you have. This is happening on Wednesday 15 June, 2-5pm, so please do pop in if you are in Sofia!

The workshops are free and opened to all. They are limited to about 10-15 people and booking by email is essential. Bookings are based on a first booked/first served basis. To register: info@designmarketo.com

INFORMATION
DesignMarketo
5 Open Art Space
1? Hristo Botev Blvd.
1606 Sofia, Bulgaria
(Next to “Pette Kiusheta”)
Open everyday 10am to 7pm.

More info, design, worskhops and lemonade here: http://designmarketo.com/events/sofia-design-week-2011/

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

Cutlery Use Dev Org, tablecloth Amandine Alessandra during A Dinner with DesignMarketo at the Barbican Gallery.

In Rainbow Veritas is a new edition of In vino Veritas, a plain white bistrot tablecloth that reveals its pattern as wine, blueberry juice, curry sauce or tea is spilled on it, diverting the attention away from an awkward situation, as an irregular pattern of flowers blossoms in the stain.
The new collection was recently launched in London at the dinner hosted by DesignMarketo
at the Barbican Gallery.

A limited series, hand printed in East London by All Cats Are Grey and sold on DesignMarketo.

I was also part of the 2010 edition of the Emerge show during London Design Week.
During the opening, guests were invited to pose as human letterforms/numbers
and were given a polaroid of their mini-performance (instant typography deserves
instant photography, doesn’t it?).