+ Talks by Cortese Mazza & Arnaud Eubelen
This one week workshop is built around the Glyph Drawing Club a modular, web-based, open-source graphic interface created by Finnish graphic designer Heikki Lotvonen. Based on old Ascii text editors, the tool offers a series of predefined shapes which can be assembled in a customizable grid. Students imagined fragments of spaces through the Glyph Drawing Club's typographic tool kit.
The exercice was divided in three parts.
Part 1| The reinterpretation of a reference plan in glyphs served as an introduction to the tool. These sometimes distant translations are inherent to the limitation of available glyphs.
Part 2 | The free composition of three independent slices via the Glyph Drawing Club.
Part 3| Students were invited to spatialize their compositions. The slices, orientated in the space of a cube, intersect. Glyphs gain in volume, typographic fragments become three-dimensional.
The week was also punctuated by two short-talks. Arnaud Eubelen divided his practice between art and design. The architects Cortese Mazza explained their approach to architectural design. These two practices are similar in their use of found objects and standardized elements, which they revisit and stage in their productions.
The students' works were exhibited in A2 plates at the end of the week and were compiled in a booklet.