Challenging design paths
ICTVC 7 · Patras, Greece · 19 — 21 June 2019
Workshops
Richard Kegler
17–18 June / 9.30–17.00 | both days
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This two-day hands-on workshop will use the letterpress “P22 Blox” which uses only 8 basic shapes to create lettering and pattern design. Experiments with these letterpress blocks will allow participants to learn the basics of letterpress and problem solving given strict limitations of material.
Richard Kegler is the founder of P22 Type Foundry and is currently the Director the Wells College Book Arts Center in Aurora, NY. As founder of the Western New York Book Arts Center, Richard combined an interest in traditional crafts along with an entrepreneurial background to help create a self-sustaining community organization. His project P22 Analog focuses on pre-digital printing and typography.
James Grieshaber is a type designer, typographer, and graphic designer based in Rochester, NY. He now works at P22 Type Foundry as Director of Operations as well as creating typefaces. James is an Ex Officio board member of Society of Typographic Aficionados (SOTA/TypeCon), an active member of American Printing History Association (APHA), and a Studio Artist of Book Arts at the Flower City Arts Center in Rochester.
place: PANAGIOTOPOULOS TIPOGRAFIO.GR | Patras Industrial Area
transportation will be arranged by ICTVC
Jeff Pulaski
17–18 June / 9.30–17.00 | both days
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Letterpress printing is a physical process that allows artists to experience letters as 3-dimensional objects. In this two-day workshop, participants will work with laser-cut, cardboard and textured materials to create typographic experiments. The workshop will be completely experimental, allowing designers to push the boundaries of typographic form in new ways and in the process discover more expressive solutions to typographic problems.
A life-long Kansan, Jeff Pulaski was born and raised in Newton, Kansas in the United States. He is currently the Director of the School of Art, Design and Creative Industries at Wichita State University. His letterpress collection includes various platen and cylinder presses, a Prouty Power Press newspaper press, an 18” Challenge paper cutter, a Model 31 Linotype and large assortment of metal and wooden type.
place: PANAGIOTOPOULOS TIPOGRAFIO.GR | Patras Industrial Area
transportation will be arranged by ICTVC
Inkognito Creative Lab
17–18 June / 9.30–17.00 | both days
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Κατά τη διάρκεια του εργαστηρίου οι συμμετέχοντες θα έχουν την ευκαιρία να γνωρίσουν τις βασικές αρχές της μεταξοτυπίας και να έρθουν σε επαφή με τα βασικά υλικά και τις απαραίτητες τεχνικές με ιδιαίτερη έμφαση στην DIY μεταξοτυπία σε χαρτί και ύφασμα. Θα μάθουν επίσης τα απαραίτητα βήματα για τη σωστή προετοιμασία αρχείων προς εκτύπωση, χρησιμοποιώντας λογισμικό επεξεργασίας γραφικών και εικόνων, και θα έχουν την ευκαιρία να κάνουν τις δικές τους εκτυπώσεις.
- Σύντομη εισαγωγή στην τεχνική της μεταξοτυπίας
- Εφαρμογές της μεταξοτυπικής μεθόδου εκτύπωσης
- Γνωριμία με τα υλικά και τα εργαλεία της μεταξοτυπίας
- DIY υλικά και εξοπλισμός
- Προετοιμασία μακέτας, προεκτύπωση
- Προετοιμασία και φώτισμα τελάρων
- Τεχνικές εκτύπωσης
Inkognito Creative Lab Το ICL είναι ένα δημιουργικό εργαστήριο με έδρα την Πάτρα και εξειδίκευση στο σχεδιασμό αφισών, βιβλίων, εταιρικής ταυτότητας καθώς και στην εκτέλεση street-art. Το πάθος της ιδρυτικής ομάδας για ό,τι αφορά τις παραδοσιακές μεθόδους εκτύπωσης οδήγησε στην ενασχόληση με τη μεταξοτυπία το 2015. Από το 2017 οι εκτυπώσεις μεταξοτυπίας εντάχθηκαν στις υπηρεσίες που παρέχει το εργαστήριο.
In this two-day screen printing workshop, participants will learn about various techniques and processes, as well as how to prepare their design files using image editing software. Moreover, they will create their own screen, set up, and, finally, print their work!
- Brief introduction to silkscreen printing
- Silkscreen printing applications
- Materials and tools
- DIY materials and equipment
- Artwork preparation, pre-printing
- Screen exposure
- Printing techniques
Inkognito Creative Lab ICL is a creative studio based in Patras; it specialises in poster and book design, corporate identity and street-art. Out of pure passion and curiosity, the founding team decided to explore the art of screen printing in 2015. Since 2017 custom screen printing maintains a prominent place in the lab’s provided services.
τοποθεσία: “Inkognito Creative Lab”, Κέντρο πόλης
Ευαγγελία Μπίζα
17–18 June / 9.30–17.00 | both days
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Κατά τη διάρκεια του διήμερου σεμιναρίου, θα γνωρίσουμε τη βασική τεχνική Ιαπωνικής Βιβλιοδεσίας με μαλακό και σκληρό εξώφυλλο και την Κοπτική Βιβλιοδεσία (Coptic Binding).
Συνοπτικά, η θεματολογία:
Βασικές αρχές βιβλιοδεσίας, ιδιότητες και χαρακτηριστικά του χαρτιού.
Σχετική ορολογία, εξοικείωση με τον απαραίτητο εξοπλισμό και τις πρώτες ύλες, ιστορικό περίγραμμα των τεχνικών Ιαπωνικής και Κοπτικής βιβλιοδεσίας και σύγχρονες εφαρμογές τους.
Ιαπωνική Βιβλιοδεσία με μαλακό εξώφυλλο (εξώφυλλο με βαρύ χαρτί).
Κοπτική Βιβλιοδεσία με σκληρό εξώφυλλο (επενδυμένο χαρτόνι με ύφασμα ή χαρτί).
Η Ευαγγελία Μπίζα εργάζεται ως βιβλιοδέτης και συντηρήτρια αρχειακού και βιβλιακού υλικού τα τελευταία 30 χρόνια. Μετά την αποφοίτησή της από το Εργαστήριο Βιβλιοδεσίας Τέχνης του ΕΟΜΜΕΧ μετεκπαιδεύτηκε σε τεχνικές βιβλιοδεσίας, συντήρησης χαρτιού και βιβλίου στο Centro del bel Libro στην Ασκόνα, Ελβετία. Από το 1988 εργάστηκε στα τα Γενικά Αρχεία του Κράτους στην Κέρκυρα και την Αθήνα και από το 2000 λειτουργεί το δικό της εργαστήριο βιβλιοδεσίας και συντήρησης βιβλίου. Δίδαξε καλλιτεχνική βιβλιοδεσία στο Εθνικό Κέντρο Βιβλίου και συνεργάστηκε με τη Σχολή Καλών Τεχνών της Αθήνας, Τμήμα Τέχνης του βιβλίου, διδάσκοντας πρωτότυπες τεχνικές και έχοντας τη βιβλιοδετική επιμέλεια των βιβλίων που τυπώθηκαν στη διάρκεια των δέκα χρόνων λειτουργίας του εργαστηρίου. Έχει συμμετάσχει σε πολλές εκθέσεις βιβλιοδεσίας και διαγωνισμούς στην Ελλάδα και το εξωτερικό και έχει βραβευτεί σε διεθνείς διαγωνισμούς· μεταξύ άλλων έλαβε Χρυσό μετάλλιο στο “4 Prix Paul Bonet 1992” από το Centro del Bel Libro και 1ο Βραβείο Fine Binding στο διαγωνισμό Society of Bookbinders στο Durham του Ηνωμένου Βασιλείου.
τοποθεσία: “Μουσείο Τύπου”, Κέντρο πόλης
Irene Vlachou, Laurence Penney, Kostas Bartsokas, Emilios Theofanous
17–18 June / 9.30–17.00 | both days
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In English with Greek support
In this two-day workshop participants will learn how to draw letterforms with a font editor and how to turn letterforms into a variable font; the result will be a dynamic wordmark.
Content
Dynamic and interactive logos: an introduction
Variable font technology
Letterforms on paper and on screen
Remastering outlines with techniques suitable for variable font formats
Wordmark (logo) to life with CSS animation
Requirements
Laptop Mac with latest OS or PC with Windows 10
Irene Vlachou is a typeface designer working between Bristol and Athens. After trying life as an artist and a violinist, Irene found her vocation. Her terrible handwriting and horror of olives turned out to be no obstacles for her becoming a type designer specialising in Greek. In 2004 she gained her Masters in type design from the University of Reading and since then she has been collaborating with many international type foundries as a typeface designer and as a Greek type advisor. She designs original custom typefaces as well as extending typefaces to add the Greek character set and is a senior designer and the variable font obsessive at Type-Together.
Laurence Penney is a consultant in font technology based in Bristol, UK. Focussed on dynamic font technology, he first specialised in TrueType (writing rasterizers, hinting fonts) and is now a consultant experimenter and evangelist of variable fonts. He also helped create MyFonts, the open platform selling fonts from all foundries, part of the team that made it market leader by a wide margin. Laurence’s Axis-Praxis website lets anyone play with variable fonts and, by means of Axis-Praxis as well as his talks & workshops, he hopes others will understand what the excitement is all about.
Kostas Bartsokas is a Greek typeface designer and typographer. During his freelance career he specialised in graphic design, illustration, web design, packaging, and animation; he finally chose to pursue his passion with typography. Kostas holds an MA in Typeface Design from the University of Reading and enjoys innovative explorations being particularly interested in multi-script type design. He is currently working as a senior typeface designer at URW in Hamburg and offers consultation in Greek script design for other foundries too.
Emilios Theofanous is a typeface designer and cat owner from Cyprus. After studying Mathematics at the University of Athens he gained an MA in Digital Arts from the Athens School of Fine Arts. Working as an animator and graphic designer he realised his passion for typography; this path led him in Amiens in France where he studied type design at EsadType. He is currently working as a senior type designer at Monotype in London.
David Hunter
18 June / 9.30–17.00 | one day workshop
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A one-day workshop suitable for around 15 participants. People from all backgrounds, disciplines and abilities are encouraged to join. No existing technical expertise is required. One smartphone is needed per pair.
In this workshop we will use every day tools like the smartphone and notepad to collect data on the environment around us, walking paths through Patras and its dataspace.
Participants will engage and learn about how to work with data, from collecting, analysing and editing, through to visualising it. They will gain understanding in data literacy and chart literacy. Aspects they could examine could include: architecture, green spaces, flora, fauna, people, vehicles, pollution, litter, advertising, graffiti, signs, shops, security.
Participant pairs will take to the streets, walking around Patras to gather data. When they return the group will go through a series of exercises to analyse and visualise their collected data. The group will reflect on any insights gained from the visualisations. This is a practical and hands on exercise.
David Hunter is a multi-disciplinary designer, programmer, and educator from London. David originally studied Graphic Design where he gained an interest in programming for interaction design, data visualization, and generative design. These cross discipline skills have been put to use for commercial clients, exhibitions, and as a Senior Lecturer at Ravensbourne, encouraging Graphic Design students to engage with technology and programming.
Alexios Zavras
21 June / 13.30-16.30
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This seminar/workshop will cover issues from both technical and legal perspectives, and the instructor can provide in-depth answers to real-world questions.
After completing the course, attendees will have learned the basics of digital content licensing, as well as the finer points of the major open licenses, and they will be in a position to immediately apply the concepts learned into their daily work in order to minimize legal problems.
ICTVC registered delegates only.
This workshop will be held at the conference venue.
Information about registration will be provided during the conference.
Alexios Zavras, PhD, has more than 35 years experience in Free and Open Source software. He is a regular speaker on software and content licensing in international conferences. He is currently living and working in Munich and on the Internet.