Workshop

August 28th - September 3rd, 2011

tipoRenesansa - designing typeface

Mentors: Tomato Košir, Aljaž Vindiš

9 a.m. - 7 p.m.

The participants of the international workshop will create fonts that will be mainly intended for use in book publishing. The intention of the workshop is not to produce a font that could be used on our computers, for you need at least a year of hard work to obtain such a result. The participants will develop their idea and under the watchful eyes of their mentors plan their first digital sketches. They will learn to use font designing software and learn about an entire array of technical characteristics that need to be taken into account when designing fonts.

The mentor will select one of the fonts developed at the workshop and pass it on to the festival organizer - studio TipoRenesansa – who will manufacture the letters in cherry or pear wood and add it to the old printing shop fund.

The participants will present their results in the form of a poster at the exhibition.

Number of participants: 15

Participation fee: 270 EUR

Benefits: 240 EUR (students and pensioners)

Further information:

+ 386 40 931 049, + 386 599 47 044, This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it

About the mentors:

Visual communication designer Tomato Košir was born in 1978 in Kranju. He finished his master's degree in 2007 at the Department for Design, Academy of Fine Arts and Design in Ljubljana.  In 2010 he became Assistant Professor at Academy of fine Arts and Design in Ljubljana. Member of the Brumen Foundation. Coorganizer and comentor of 12 typography workshops TipoBrda. President of the 4th Slovenian Visual communication biennial. He has received awards from   Type directors Club in New York, Magdalena, Zlati MM, SOF, Golden Drum and Brumen  and The Most Beautiful Book awards.  He is the author of graphic images for the Ministry for Culture of the Republic of Slovenia, Trenta Valley, GOGO food supplements, 46th Ljubljana Jazz Festival. He founded the asylum for commited students and denied assistents teh Secret Society CGP.

Aljaž Vindiš, born in 1987 in Maribor, lives and works in Ljubljana. He is a final year student of Visual Communications at the Department of Visual Communications at the Academy of Fine Art and Design. Since October 2009 he is the art editor of the student newspaper Tribuna, for which he created and developed Tribunal - a unique font of four upright and four cursive cuts. He also researches the use of natural, formal and visual language in the context of the internet and printed media. He creates and develops communication tools and tactical communications for his clients.