Types YOU Can Make Workshop
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Archives: Grind out original prints from ink stamps and paper cuts with some of Switzerland’s most prominent type designers. Following the tremendous response to Ludovic Balland’s workshop, held near the opening of the Types We Can Make exhibition, swissnex San Francisco invites Dimitri Bruni and Manuel Krebs (Norm), and David Keshavjee and Julien Tavelli (Maximage) to share their expertise with Bay Area graphic design students and young professionals. The full-day workshop draws inspiration from two distinct publications referencing American type and print. Published in 1969, Rob Roy Kelly’s American Wood Type, 1828-1900 monograph documents early type design in the United States, tracking rough typography experiments by autodidacts with no academic background or ties to typographic history. Norm and Maximage invite participants to rediscover and adapt these early type techniques using foam and paper cutters. Each issue of the Stamp Art magazine, published in San Francisco in the 1970s and 1980s garnered contributions from a broad array of artists, all of whom provided several pages of work done with ink stamps. These pages were then assembled into magazine. Workshop participants go through a similar process of collaboration. *This event is part of SF Design Week. Related events include an evening of presentations from Norm and Maximage on June 14 and a discussion with typography legend Jack Stauffacher on June 15.
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