If you are in Melbourne and you enjoy letterpress printing, bookbinding, hand lettering or zine-making then this is for you.
Back2basics 2009 is two days of workshops for creative professionals and students. Taking you back to the roots and heart of graphic design, these workshops will inspire you to discover a new future.
Some highlights:
Type & Drawing Tour
For the lovers of type and design, Andrew Ashton of Studio Pip and Co. has developed a walking tour to take in the sights and sketch type samples while burning a few calories. Starting at Wimbledon Ave and Brighton Rd Elwood, the tour will take in the astounding variety of anonymously developed type design just waiting for those prepared to hunt it out and develop the raw material for their next type odyssey. (I can’t believe I am not going to this…)
Type Workshop
With the the recent resurgence in the interest and practice of “hand-lettering”, this workshop will focus on the variety of contemporary examples of handdrawn graphics and type. From Dwiggins through to Ed Fella, an informal presentation will be followed by discussion. The second part of this workshop will be more practical, with various projects, both individual and in collaboration.
Letterpress Printing Introduction
Workshop participants will learn about the capabilities of letterpress, receive their name set in a linotype and learn how to make a photopolymer plate to print on an original Heidelberg Platen Letterpress.
+ zine-making, bookbinding and more.
I am devastated that I cannot participate because I have a wedding on one week, and am in Sydney the following. But if you are free, you must go! It will be spectacular. I am clearing my July diary for 2010, I think.
Location: RMIT Brunswick, 25 Dawson Street, Brunswick & Melbourne Museum of Printing, 36 Moreland street, Footscray
Phone: +61 3 9380 4440
Cost: $70 for AGDA members, $120 for non-members.
