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PAST WORKSHOPS
PAST EXHIBITIONS
DANIELE TOZZI
CHMARA ROSINKE
Calligram Workshop: words into shapes with Daniele ‘Mr. Pepsy’ Tozzi from Rome, Italy.
A calligram is a poem or a sentence that have a shape of an object, or we can say that is a shape made by words or sentence. The aim of the workshop is to realize one or more calligram, using words or quotes from anything you want.
About the author:
Daniele Tozzi is an Italian lettering artist whose work derives from the field of graphic design and graffiti. Born in Rome in 1981, Tozzi came in contact with the underground culture in the second half of the 90s, when he started writing graffiti. After high school, he graduated in Digital Design on European Design Institute (IED) in the capital of Italy and began to work as a graphic designer for agencies and brands. Since few years he’s a freelance creative working for Italian and international agencies, for clients such as: Chesterfield – Nastro Azzurro – Oakley – Ceramiche Ragno – Bridgestone – Casio G-Shock – Econocom
Lettering Art:
The core of Tozzi’s highly refined and personalized body of work is lettering, a visual art related to writing, his newly discovered love for drawing letters made the young artist engage in studying of diverse techniques and tools, until he found his own style of letters.
Over the years, Tozzi began to paint paper with acrylic paint and colored ink by using an old technique that fuse lettering and design: the calligram. Tozzi’s artwork created by the words are formed or supported by different fonts and writings, not infrequently referencing graffiti. One of the biggest inspiration of the artist is music, so many of his artworks are made by words and quotes taken from music background of the artist cleverly arranged into shapes that became objects or silhouettes.
The lettering Daniele Tozzi employs in his artistic practice is a permanently changing experiment filled with typography, famous slogans or songs, mottos, or important notes from the cultural heritage or beliefs of the artist.
From 2010 began his documented artistic career, showing his canvases in different galleries and art festival in italy
Urban art:
He never considered himself as street artist, even if it happened that art festival and projects involved him to make walls and big productions. Street art is something very linked to graffiti, made in the night time, without any permission, just spontaneous acts that leave messages on the streets, they can be words for the graffiti or visuals for street art. He consider itself a lettering artist, began from the streets and then evolved to paper and ink, joined what can be considered the post-graffiti movement.
DAVID KYNASTON
Participants will usually have some prior lettering/signwriting experience, but if you are unsure about the suitability of the workshop then please contact us.
David Kynaston will start by guiding participants through honours board gilding, engine turning techniques, and using gold leaf to create prismatic lettering. Each of these will be introduced through demonstrations before participants take their turn to practise.
The next part of the workshop will cover ribbons, fine lining and gilded scrolls which will all be used on a panel that participants will begin to work on, alongside the previously learned techniques. The final part of the workshop will cover some basic pictorial work and allow everyone to finish the panels which can then be taken home after the workshop.
GRZEGORZ BARASINSKI
Illuminated Initial Workshops.
Good to know: Anyone can start with this illumination workshop without knowing calligraphy or being good at paintings.
What is it about?
The illuminated initial means a highly decorative letter as well as a gilded letter that appears as the first for example in the text. Metaphorically, the illuminated initial means clarifying, throwing light on, explaining, from a technical point of view, it means using gold and other precious metal in order to enrich and to make more beautiful the letter, and it is strongly connected with brightness and glittering.
GUSTAVO FERRARI
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JEFF MARSHALL
Jeff Marshall Lettering Workshops are designed for those who are looking to improve their casual and script lettering skills, to add flare and give this style of lettering character. You can be a well seasoned craftsman with minimal experience in this style or a newbie, either way Jeff will have you on track to producing casual and script correctly by learning the basic fundamentals.
People who would benefit mostly in the workshop would be newbies with minimal brush experience and Craftsmen with good brush skills but minimal knowledge of casual and script. The format of a workshop will be uncomplicated, easy going, at the pace of the individual and an environment where no judgments are made. The workshops are all about the passing on of methods in producing two letter styles and the development in the student.
LUCA BARCELLONA
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MIKE MEYER
The first part of the workshop is focussed on setting out and painting Gothic (Block), Casual and Script letter forms through a hands-on process of practise, personal critique and expert guidance. It all starts with a pencil, drawing and developing an understanding of the basic letter forms. These then form the basis for building your brush skills, with input on paint, brushes and other specialist equipment used to paint letters.
With the basics under control, the final two days allow you to develop a range of techniques to add a little something extra to your painted letters. Mike will guide you through a variety of lettering effects, including: basic shadows; outlines; bevels; convex and concave lettering; masks; cut and roll fades. The aim is to accelerate your ability to create more distinctive lettering for all sorts of purposes.
THEOSONE
Creative Calligraphy Workshop.
During this workshops THEOSONE will walk you through a variety of calligraphy, lettering and drawing tools. We will explore the techniques and many ways to apply calligraphy in the art and design world.
Level: beginner / intermediate – Individual consultations
worth having with you:
-your writing tools if you have any
-favorite ruler, pencil, rubber, compass…
GOLD AND GLASS
WITH MIKE MEYER
Mike Meyer leads this introductory workshop, which offers a chance to expand your skills by introducing the basics of gold leaf gilding for lettering and signs. Working on a number of parallel projects you’ll be exposed to techniques for gilding on glass and flat surfaces, with everything at a basic level to keep it simple and get you going with gold. You’ll be creating matt and shiny effects on glass, and experimenting with different burnishing techniques while receiving input on materials, preparation (including cleaning glass), making size, laying gold, burnishing, and backing up.
The workshop is designed for those new to gilding, or with a little previous experience working with gold leaf. You should have some basic signwriting brush skills already as these will not be taught. The class size will be kept small to allow plenty of individual support, and all participants will take away their work on pre-designed panels and glass pieces.
Ania Rosinke und Maciej Chmara were both born in Gdynia, Poland and studied interior design, architecture and design strategy in Gdansk, Linz and Vienna. interior architecture, interior and design strategies and architecture in Gdansk, Linz and Vienna. Their designs are remarkable for their simplicity, ecological awareness and a poetic language of forms that traces the objects back to their archetypes.
Different sensory aspects are quite consciously linked together in their ideas – haptics, sense of smell, acoustics – and pose the question as to how much simplicity, humour and sensuousness an object needs. It is often only after interaction that their “still” creations become utility objects and thus a dynamic experience. The studio projects are always embedded in the differentiated context of design, art and architecture and are formed on the basis of functional as well as socio-cultural aspects.
chmara.rosinke belong to the well known young designers in Europe.
Their projects are not only inspired by classical interior and product design, but a lot of their creations emerge in conceptual spaces in cooperation with museum and art galleries.
Slava Shatovkin
Slava Shatovkin is a tattoo artist from Ukraine, currently based in Berlin.
Since he has drawn his first crooked picture far back in his childhood – that was a long way of getting into art world. Tattooing for 3 years already, working on himself, using the opportunity to improve skills of designing a communication in general.
For the exhibition, he showed and shared his designs. Most of all ink on paper, screen prints and linocuts inspired by engraving masterpieces, medieval art and mythology itself.
