Werkplaats Typografie

Werkplaats Typografie (WT) is part of ArtEZ Institute of the Arts. WT is a two-year master’s programme centred on practical assignments and self-initiated projects. It also serves as a meeting place for graphic designers with regard to research and dialogue. The WT is supervised by Karel Martens and Armand Mevis. Further guidance is given on a regular basis by Paul Elliman and Maxine Kopsa. Anniek Brattinga and Liesbeth Doornbosch are in charge of co-ordination. Visiting lecturers are regularly invited to provide individual tutoring and/or for presentations. Reviews of work, critiques and project participation are informal in character. Participants work in a professionally equipped studio accessible 24 hours a day. The WT is open to a maximum number of twelve graphic designers who would like to deepen their knowledge and skills. Participation depends entirely upon proven ability.

The program
The WT programme stimulates and practices critical reflection on the basis of a broad cultural perspective, with theory playing a supporting role. Participants engage in artistic research involving content and form, text and image, theory and practice, in relation to professional practice and supervised by leading designers. Alongside more theoretical research, participants work on real assignments for external clients. With these assignments participants learn to take on a leading role in the process of designing and realizing a final product. This includes dealings with several parties (editors, publishers, printers…) and handling the tensions between maintaining one’s artistic vision and answering to the wishes of the client. The WT programme roughly consists of three components: 1) Presentations, individual and group critiques, workshops; 2) Practical assignments and 3) theoretical orientation in the form of research, excursions and a final thesis.

Publications
* Dutch Resource: Collaborative Exercises in Graphic Design by Paul Elliman (Author), Maxine Kopsa (Author) and the participants of the Werkplaats Typografie.
* Nicosia This Week The book contains contributions by the three curators of the Manifesta 6: Mai Abu ElDahab, Anton Vidokle and Florian Waldvogel as well as Jan Verwoert, Paul Elliman, Yiannis Papadaki, Louise Tu' u and the participants of the Werkplaats Typografie.
* The Book and other Books by Julia Born, Lex Trüb and the participants of the Werkplaats Typografie.
* Playback for a Daydream by the participants of the Werkplaats Typografie.
* Walking on Splinters by the participants of the Werkplaats Typografie.
* On Lawrence Weiner by Guillaume Mojon
* In Alphabetical Order: File Under: Graphic Design, Schools, or Werkplaats Typografie, by Paul Elliman, Anthony Froshaug, Melle Hammer, Robin Kinross, Norman Potter, and Stuart Bailey, 2003, NAi Publishers. (ISBN 978-9056622725)

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