Another exciting edition of typography related lectures and presentations at Vooruit, organised by Michael Bussaer and St Lucas visual arts school.
http://www.bolditalic.be/
I particularly enjoyed these 3 presentations:
PETER NENCINI, whose work plays with systems and grids and mingles with textiles. The work deals with the curve and the linear, the rigid and the souple, organisation and had oc. It’s graphic and idea based and at the same time completely guided by form, texture and colour.
RICK POYNOR who gave a historical lecture about graphic/ poet “artist” monk DOM SYLVESTER HOUÉDARD who used the typewriter to make poetical/ typographic compositions.
Fascinating and inspiring!
FRANCOIS CHASTANET whose books “Pixação: São Paulo Signature” and “Cholo Writing: Latino Gang Graffiti in Los Angeles” I love and who has just published a new one all about the Chinese ground calligraphy phenomenon Dishu. He talked about this research and how he managed to approach the people and photograph them by showing his own knowledge of calligraphy, thus creating an exchange of techniques.
