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»Word Jazz« Opening Party + Typo Berlin Pre-Party

Mon, 13 May 2013 15:22:00 +0200

For the third year in a row, Mota Italic is hosting the biggest Typo Berlin pre-party and exhibition opening evening.

This Wednesday from 18:00 till late, come by Mota Italic to check out the new exhibition »Word Jazz«, meet the artist Dru Brennan, meet not only the Berlin type crowd, but also many international typoholics visiting from all over the globe.

Mixologist/DJ Kurt will be serving special delicacies: wine, beer, and top shelf cocktails can be enjoyed all evening.

About the exhibition:

Word Jazz is a couple things: its the title of an old jazz LP by Ken Nordine that turns the human voice into both communicator and post-modern musical instrument, and also the title of this exhibit of recent large calligraphic works. Jazz improvisation is high-stakes art in the sense that you constantly push your creative process while others listen along for the ride - to take melodic risks in front of an audience. Graffiti and Zen calligraphy are two writing systems that deploy similar sets of aesthetics and conviction in gesture as in jazz. I sought to explore the possibilities of mixing all three of these art forms together, to use Roman letterforms as the back beat while I solo the tale of each letter’s construction. Each piece’s content is a short-form poetic meditation on a variety of subjects, from loss to love to contemporary art. Ultimately the work is about untangling preconceptions about letters, form, writing and art, and recombining them to create new, pretty possibilities for writing to come.

More about the party and show here.

Party May 15th, 18:00

Mota Italic

Schliemannstraße 34

10437 Berlin (Prenzlauer Berg)

Lettering vs Calligraphy OFFICIAL WORKSHOP – 11 May 2013 – Berlin @betahaus

Wed, 08 May 2013 01:24:00 +0200

A unique laboratory that combines both: lettering and calligraphy. In a one day intensive session, the participants will explore the two technical approaches as combinatory tools within the same design process.

The workshop consists in theoretical input combined with hands-on-work and critique rounds. It is ideal for art and design students and professionals who want to explore the possibilities of calligraphy in combination with drawing techniques. In a few words, we will use writing and drawing for creating an unique typographic unit (or more). You will walk away from this workshop with a sharper eye when working with letters and with practical tools that will improve your own creative work.

The sessions will be conducted by Martina Flor and Giuseppe Salerno and will take place on the Saturday 11 May from 13 to 19 pm at Betahaus Berlin and participants will get an official LVSC diploma. There will be prizes for the most outstanding!

What will be provided: Most of the basic material is provided (paper, ink and calligraphic tools), however you are invited to bring your own to improve your variety of tools.

What you need to bring: your favourite mechanical pencil and a pointed brush.

€170 per person

ON-TYPE: Texts on Typography

Tue, 07 May 2013 01:12:00 +0200

Written symbols are omnipresent in our culture. They open up the universe of the written word and give us directions in everyday life. But the distinct message inherent in their appearance is often only noticed subliminally. ‘ON–TYPE: Texts on Typography’ conveys the fascination of type design and shows classics from twentieth-century typographic history along with recent examples. The exhibition gathers together theses, manifestos and stocktaking accounts from twentieth-century typography in the German-speaking countries. It also presents type specimens and insiders’ typography magazines, and discusses the central protagonists and important debates in the history of typography regarding legibility, use of small letters in German, and the effects of digitization.

‘ON-TYPE: Texts on Typography’ is an exhibition by the Gutenberg Museum and Mainz University of Applied Sciences / Designlabor Gutenberg, in the Bauhaus Archive in Berlin.

8 May – 5 August 2013

http://www.on-type.de

http://www.bauhaus.de/aktuelles/sonderausstellungen+M52087573ab0.html

BAUHAUS-ARCHIV / MUSEUM FÜR GESTALTUNG
Klingelhöferstraße 14, 10785 Berlin
Tel. (+49) 030 / 25 40 020

Diggin In The Crates

Wed, 01 May 2013 15:11:00 +0200

Check out Idrawalot Gallery/Showroom for a Solo Exhibition with Chula ‘Diggin In The Crates’.

Chula’s exploration for her love and inspiration of music that has effected her hand-painted typography and illustrations. Original works shown and stylized as a visual sonnet.

About:

Chula is an artist born and raised in the city of West-Berlin, who does mural paintings, illustrations and hand lettering. Trained in traditional craftsmanship and design, she uses modern and classic techniques and materials in her work, where typography, handcraft, urban art, folk&hip-hop influences meet with a pinch of nostalgia.

May 2nd

19:00 – 23:00

Boddinstraße 60

12053 Berlin, Germany

More Info

Calligraphy Workshop – Copperplate Capitals

Sat, 13 Apr 2013 18:17:00 +0200

This class is oriented to beginners, but it is open to anyone interested in improving their handwriting skills and calligraphy.

English Copperplate is a calligraphic model developed in the 19th century and it is well known for its simple elegance, thin loops and quick strokes. -

The workshop will be in English and part of the tools are included in the price, just bring a pencil, eraser, an old brush and a long ruler.

Price 55€

The class begins at 14.00 and ends at 20.00. More infos: gs@resistenza.es

Almstadtstrasse 3 – 10178 Doorbell 105

Cyrillic Type Design Workshop

Sat, 13 Apr 2013 17:35:00 +0200

Interested at trying your hand at some Cyrillic type design? Want to understand better the history and way of writing the fourth most used alphabet in the world? Need some first hand, highly personalized first-hand advise and instruction from a talented native Cyrillic designer?

Next weekend, April 20 & 21st, Alexei Vanyashin will present an intensive 2 day workshop on Cyrillic type design here in Berlin. At only €90 for the two days, the workshop is a real bargain. But space is limited to only 8 people, so good luck getting a spot!

Learn more about the workshop & register at Gidsy

Fajrant Exhibition

Thu, 11 Apr 2013 13:49:00 +0200

Fresh from Poland, Fajrant – Ala has a pen, chronicals the 20 resulting typefaces from a long-term type workshop in Katowice.

Friday, April 12th from 18:00 is the exhibition opening at Mota Italic. Come by, check out the typefaces, sip some wine, and debate the current state of type design and education.

Verena Gerlach will also give a short presentation on the workshop at 7:30.

Further lectures by other professors and teachers will be given later during the exhibition. Speakers and dates to be announced soon.

The exhibition runs from April 10th – May 11th at Mota Italic.

Mota Italic
Schliemannstraße 34
10437 Berlin

Open: Mon-Sat 12:00 – 18:00

More on the exhibition:
http://www.motaitalic.com/gallery/exhibitions/fajrant

Facebook event page:

https://www.facebook.com/events/447500498658142/

Turkish Cultural Exhibition

Thu, 11 Apr 2013 13:43:00 +0200

For one week only (April 12 – 19), you can view an exhibition on Turkish culture at the Turkish House in Berlin. The show includes many decorative arts, but most interesting to you, dear readers, is probably the section of Arabic calligraphy.

Exhibition opening April 12th from 18:00. Opening ceremony will be simultaneously translated from Turkish to German.

The Turkish House Berlin is open Monday – Friday 12:00 – 16:00 and Saturday & Sunday 11:00 – 19:00.

Location:
An der Urania 15
10787 Berlin

The Buchstabenmuseum Tomorrow!

Fri, 15 Mar 2013 15:56:00 +0100

Tomorrow night is the Long night of museums in Berlin. The Buchstabenmuseum is participating by staying open till 2am along with most of the city’s other museums.

However, they are also hosting a Pecha Kucha with some of Berlin’s awesome type crowd. The talks commence at 17:00, so don’t miss them.

Talks by:

Chris Campe // Christine Voshage // Hildrun Dreyer // Julia Sysmäläinen // Lara Schilling // Luc(as) de Groot // Marcus Hahn // Raban Ruddigkeit // Sascha Grewe // Sonja Keller // Sonja Knecht

Also, the museum will soon be closing and moving down the street. You only have till the end of the month to see them in their current home.

More on this news, plus tons of pictures of the Buchstabenmuseum.

Lettering vs Calligraphy • The Exhibition

Wed, 27 Feb 2013 14:55:08 +0100

Coming to Mota Italic tomorrow, the dynamic duo of Martina Flor and Giuseppe Salerno will show their first complete alphabet after three months of gruilling battles.

The opening is from 7pm with a short talk by Martina and Giuseppe at 7:30.

http://www.motaitalic.com/gallery/exhibitions/letteringvscalligraphy

http://www.letteringvscalligraphy.com

"In Progress" Project Closing & Font Release Party

Wed, 20 Feb 2013 10:14:00 +0100

From Mota Italic:

Our exhibition/project for January and February was a look at Rob’s process of type design. In Progress shows the steps, iterations, and methodologies of how this specific project unfolded.

This Saturday, Feb 23rd we will celebrate the conclusion of In Progress with a Finissage and Fip font release party. Come by, check out how far the project progressed, and toast with some wine to the release of this new font family!

We’ll also be holding a drawing for fonts during the party. Everyone wins something: either free fonts or huge discounts!

The party will be 6-10pm.

Typostammtisch Time

Wed, 30 Jan 2013 14:42:00 +0100

Everything you need to know:

Guest speaker Martin Schröder (letterpress printer)

Tomorrow night (Jan 31st), 7PM, Max and Moritz (as usual)

More info (in German)

Lettering Workshop by Martina Flor

Tue, 08 Jan 2013 12:05:42 +0100

Lettering workshop by @martinaflor

Saturday, Feb 2nd at betahaus, Berlin.

Making a logotype, a sign or a brand will no longer require the use of an already existent typeface. In this hands-on workshop you will be introduced to creating a lettering from scratch.

In a 6 hours schedule the participants will drive the process of drawing and refining a lettering. The workshop is ideal for beginners who want to learn techniques to draw type in a short period of time and also for those who have some knowledge in the field and want to improve their skills in developing their own typographic designs.  

All the materials are provided and included into the price.

The workshop will be held by Martina Flor a Designer and Letterer based in Berlin. You can also have a look at previous editions of the workshop in other cities.

Calligraphy Workshop on English Copperplate Script

Tue, 08 Jan 2013 12:00:45 +0100

Held on Saturday, January 26th at ESDIP, this class is orientated to beginners, but it is open to everyone and anyone interested in improving their handwriting skills and calligraphy.

English Copperplate is a calligraphy script whose style was developed in the 19th century and it’s very well known for it’s simple elegance, thin loops and quick strokes. We will start to write our first good “A” to “Z”, with 95% of class dedicated to practice and 5% to theory, 6 hours of fun learning calligraphy.

The workshop will be entirely in english and part of the calligraphy tools are included on the price, just bring a pencil, eraser and a long ruler.

About the referent

Giuseppe Salerno is an Italian graphic designer and calligrapher, teaching calligraphy in Valencia, Spain. Berlin is his new home after working and living for years in Madrid and Valencia, Spain. He has been focused on calligraphy and creating hand-written fonts for the past several years and loves to bring this passion to anyone who has always wanted to draw letters, but never knew how. You can check out some of his work here.

Japanese Calligraphy Workshop

Tue, 08 Jan 2013 11:40:00 +0100

Shoko Mugikura of Just Another Foundry teamed has kindly organised a Japanese calligraphy workshop by Keiko Shimoda to be held here at Mota Italic!

The main details:

19th January 2013, Saturday, 11am

- Max. 8 participants

- 4-5 hours

- The workshop will be in English and all necessary tools are provided

- Please bring €20 to cover the cost for the writing tools and paper

The workshop is intended for those who have interest in Japanese and Chinese calligraphy but never had the opportunity to try it. Even if you don’t know anything about Japanese language, not to worry – we’ll have a short introduction of the Japanese writing systems by Shoko, as well as an explanation of the history and theory of Japanese calligraphy by Keiko.

But the workshop is mostly about practising – it is a wonderful opportunity to learn new writing systems, skills and methods developed in the Far East. You could even try Japanese calligraphy methods to write Latin script.

Keiko is an unusual person to practice both Japanese and Latin calligraphy. Based in London, she produces beautiful invitation cards, certificates and logos etc. in both Latin script and Japanese or Chinese characters. She also sometimes works for films. In fact, you might have already seen her work – her piece appears in the new James Bond Skyfall! To see more her work, please visit her website.

Although not a calligrapher, Shoko will also be around to answer questions on Japanese scripts.

If you’d like to participate, please email to:

workshop_01_2013@justanotherfoundry.com

Update: There is only a space or two left!

Update 2: The workshop’s fully booked!

Typostammtisch – Quiz Night!

Mon, 10 Dec 2012 17:58:00 +0100

The final Berliner Typostammtisch of the year is this Thursday evening at 7pm.

Bring a sharp pencil and your thinking caps because it’s quiz night! Always a fun (and frustrating) evening, quizmasters Christoph Koeberlin and Tim Ahrens will certainly humble you and make you realize you don’t actually know as much as you think.

But it’s a great time and with many nice prizes to be won. (Donations to the prize pile are also requested.) Any typographic gifts/prizes you have to contribute would be appreciated and desired!

See you at Max & Moritz on Dec 13th, at 19:00!

Otto Baum - AD HOC

Fri, 07 Dec 2012 14:41:00 +0100

Come see a solo show by Berlin’s letter extraordinaire Otto Baum!

You must hurry tho… It’s only up from Dec. 6-13th.

ARTCONNECT BERLIN HQ
Boddinstraße 62
12053 Berlin

https://www.facebook.com/events/115509811943128/

OTTO BAUM was born in East Berlin 1979, where he still lives and works. In 2004 he became a member of the art collective KLUB7®.

He writes beautiful calligraphy using a big variety of techniques from pencils, brushes, markers, chalk, acrylic paint to screen printing, painting on glass and many more.

His drawings are inspired by hand-painted letters, Berlin City and its streets. “I am some kind of a nerd who is into typographical things” - he says.

Glühwein @ Mota Italic 8/12/2012

Fri, 07 Dec 2012 14:22:31 +0100

Well, it’s not quite a finissage, or end of the year party, or holiday party… it’s just one last event at Mota Italic for 2012.

Join us Saturday, December 8th for some home made cookies, hot punch, and glühwein!

While here you can check out the Chromeography exhibition, hang out with some cool type nerds, and maybe even get a bit of shopping done for your designer friends.

The refreshments come out at 2:00 and will be refilled till we are out.

See you soon!

Lettering vs Calligraphy

Fri, 30 Nov 2012 16:29:00 +0100

Lettering vs Calligraphy is a project by Giuseppe Salerno and Martina Flor. It consists of a visual dialogue between a letterer and a calligrapher, where they draw/write a letter responding to a keyword given by a moderator. The adventure aims to explore the capabilities of the two technical approaches. It delivers one letter daily and takes place online, where the visitors are invited to vote for their favorite.

So far, they have battled it out with a “Sophisticated 3”, “Bizarre J”, “Swashy T”, and a “Dynamic n”. The party’s just beginning and it’s one you will want to keep checking daily for new fun and inspiration.

Also, Martina has just launched her beautiful new website this week. And be sure to check out more work and news by Giuseppe who is often presenting terrific calligraphy workshops here in Berlin.

Right-to-Left

Wed, 28 Nov 2012 17:59:00 +0100

Right now in Berlin is a rather incredible exhibition and lecture series dealing with typography and graphic design in the Middle East. We’ve dropped the ball here at typeinberlin with timely updates… the exhibition is already half over and you may have missed the first few talks.

However, all is not lost. The exhibition is up another week so you still have time. There are three more evenings ok presentations as well!

Tomorrow night is Huda Smitshuijzen-AbiFares of Amsterdam talking about “Arabic Typography as an Agent of Resistance” starting at 19:00.

There will also be talks on Thursday December 6th and the Finnissage will be Sunday December 9th with more presentations!

A bit more info on the exhibition:
The project RIGHT-TO-LEFT focuses on what is currently happening in the Middle East in terms of visual culture and society. The exhibition features over 40 artists and graphic designers, and displays artworks, installations, and hundreds of posters, partly commissioned for the occasion of the Berlin show. The exhibited art and design works are both innovative and forward-looking, presenting cross-cultural references and styles ranging from experimental typography and type-design to street art and graffiti. They often merge Latin and Arab/Persian scripts in sensual, beautiful ensembles with multiple layers of meanings. Poetry, metaphors, and references to the present political situation in the Middle East are recurrently used in the designs.

right-to-left.net

Dates:
November 09 — December 09, 2012

Opening times:
Daily 12:00 – 19:00

Where:
Kunstquartier Bethanien, Studio 1
Mariannenplatz 2, 10997 Berlin

Who:
Organized by EPS51