Bauhaus! A workshop in Klaipeda
The workshop which is intended to commemorate Centenary of the BAUHAUS!
CIRRUS intensive workshop (Bauhaus—包豪斯—バウハウス—Πивна́я)+Font
An international type experiment at the Faculty of Klaipėda, Vilnius Academy of Arts
The Faculty of Klaipeda (Vilnius Academy of Arts) are hosting joint Cirrus workshop
(Bauhaus—包豪斯—バウハウス—Πивна́я)+Font.
1,5 ECTS
CIRRUS seats: 4
Level: BA students
Klaipeda, Lithuania
April 15th – 17th, 2019 (arrival April 14th, departure April 18th)
Workshop with presentations, practice and discussions
Language: English, with hands, feet, whatever it takes
Starting point
One hundred years of Bauhaus means one hundred years of a transregional, transcultural and transnational approach on design. In the 1920 and early 30s, the Bauhaus idea found its way to Shanghai, China’s world metropolis at the time, via Japan. Few people in the West are aware of the fact that in Asia, modern design methodology was synced to a process of re-thinking traditional values in visual culture in the quest for a contemporary cultural identity.
Workshop concept
Theory: Let us look at how the Bauhaus idea impacted on Japan, China, India, the Arab world… and how it helped resonate local visual tradition.
Practice: Let us create—with minimal means—an experimental multilingual typeface from the building blocks of Bauhaus. It can comprise both of letterforms or pictoral elements.
Timeframe
Monday 15th, 10am
1. Brief introduction of myself with some works (presentation, 30 minutes)
2. Introduction (presentation part 1): Bauhaus. An international phenomenon. The West. Migration of people and ideas, media revolution and the new interconnectedness (60 minutes).
3. Practice: Live experiment on paper and paper-cut: Roman and Cyrillic letters (shared tutorial, 30 minutes)
4. Practice and sharing of first individual results (end of day 1)
Tuesday 16th, 10am
1. Introduction (presentation part 2): Bauhaus. An international phenomenon. Asia (60 minutes).
2. Practice (end of day 2)
Wednesday 17th, 10am
1. Finishing of results, final presentation preparation
2. Final shared presentation and discussion of outcome, comparison of the spontaneous day 1 experiment with the final designs, summary (end of workshop)
ATTENTION!
Those who are interested could stay one day longer (leave on 19th of April), and could use the day building fonts and immerse a little into this field on a casual eye-to-eye basis.
Applications should include your name, surname, home school, study year and level, a Motivation statement (max 250 words), a link to your portfolio and CV.
All applications should be sent to ruta.jakstoniene@vda.lt
Deadline to apply: the 1st of April, 2019
Decisions on selection are announced by 3rd of April, 2019
The teacher of the workshop – Roman Wilhelm (*1976) is a substitute professor of typography at the Braunschweig University of the Arts, Germany.
He studied under Prof. Fred Smeijers for a typeface design master’s degree at the Leipzig Academy of Visual Arts. His multilingual typefaces are distributed by Arphic (Taiwan) and on Fontspring.
He lives and works in Berlin.
More about lecturer: http://www.roman946.de