Radical Typography Workshop

Denis Grauel, Fayen d'Evie & Nina Gibbes

How do we make a typeface? And how might it be grounded in community? This typography workshop will introduce some unorthodox and anarchic exercises for designing collectively. In this session we will cover:
- A web-browser-based rapid font creation tool
- The basics of installing custom fonts
- A hand-drawn typeface with everyone contributing some characters
- A typeface where every character is a collaboration/negotiation
- A primer on digitising hand drawings.

All welcome though spots are limited.

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Dennis Grauel is a type and graphic designer on Wurundjeri land working inquisitively towards an understanding of typography and politics. Dennis’s work happens amidst typefaces, books, research, conversations, questions and critique.

Fayen d'Evie is an artist, writer, and publisher, born in Malaysia, raised in Aotearoa, and now living in the bushlands of Jaara country. She teaches experimental typography, and animates creative research in tactile and gestural fonts, and individual and community-led processes of typeface design.

Nina Gibbes is a graphic designer with an interest in research, feminism, commoning, publication design and collaborative practice. She is currently exploring various ways that collaboration can inform a design process, with a particular focus on design workshops as a space for sharing of knowledge and creative transformation. She has a particular interest in sharing and highlighting work from designers who have historically been under acknowledged in design history such as the practices of women and designers of colour.

Saturday 12 February

9am—12pm
FREE

Register by email to wts@wts.org.au