Private type by Underware – Documentation

Juni 15th, 2007

A versatile, mixed group of 16 people were sent into a dark theoretic forest by a vague, ambitious and muddy assignment: “define different stages how one single typeface could look like, like it was a human being, and then again reflected on your own life”. Oesh! Not something to immediately start working on. What are they trying to tell me? What should I do? Actually, we didn’t know either. The question was not so much if the result would comply with the assignment, but more if an end result would come out at all. The advantage of just having 2 working days to complete the workshop, is that it doesn’t allow too much time for thinking. It requires immediate action. Even Underware was surprised as preternaturally every participant ended up with a little typographic movie, though all varying in concept and approach. But all made in the same short period. Could it be magic?

Typographic waterlily leaves

Size is but an interpretation

Sketches

Zwilling – twin

Bas, Martijn and Erik are discussing the sketches

Type made of quadrants

Alex at work

Organic typedesign

Wandel – change

Sketch for the typographic rollercoaster

Participants of the workshop (in alphabetical order): Julia Augustin, Victor Balko, Anette Banck, Erik van Calsteren, Hugo Engwerda, Alexander Ertle, Scarlett Krausgrill, Timo Meester, Britta Rosing, Philipp Sackl, Angelika Schlüter, Monika Schnitzbauer, Nicolai Schwarz, Rolf Spiess, Vera Stadler, Martina Usala, Martijn Voermann

For even more photos and the movies have a look at typeworkshop.com

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