Letrástica 4

Open Forum Open Call for Letrástica Festival 4

Tamara
- Aug 27 2022

We invite you participate in the next Letrastica Festival 4. ¡Send your proposal before September 25th, 2022!

Visita virtual al archivo del Hoffmitz Milken Center for Typography (HMCT)

Hoffmitz Milken Center for Typography (HMCT) Archive Tour

Oct 24, 2022

This Monday the 24th at 14.00 CDT, we will have an online Zoom tour of the wonderful Archive of Hoffmitz Milken Center for Typography in California, showcasing rare materials that document the history and teaching of typography, letterform design, and graphic design.

Developing a custom typeface. From brief to sketch.

Oct 27 – Oct 28, 2022

During the course of the workshop we will walk through the process of getting a request for a custom typeface from a client to creating a refined brief and sketching your first sketched proposals.

Space Type is an NYC-based studio practice led by Lynne Yun and Kevin Yeh. Operating at the intersection of type and technology, the studio works with individuals and organizations to express unique narratives and connect the seams between calligraphy, type design and digital interaction.

Introducción a la tipografía generativa con p5.js

Intro to Generative Typography with p5.js

Oct 27 – Oct 29, 2022

Typography as we know it has taken on many different shapes in our lifetimes: we've cast them into metal, cut them out of woodblocks, painted them across awnings and signs, and scrawled them onto our most personal letters.

Super! Mexican Sign Painting

Oct 28 – Oct 29, 2022

A workshop on Mexican sign painting with a Mexican flavor and tradition. Along with getting to know the basics of the trade, we will create a sign on the fabric, a very popular and affordable method that allows for a more controlled brush contact.

Workshop: The Thousand Faces of Gothic

Oct 28, 2022

This is a calligraphic workshop on gothic letter models: from the medieval to the vernacular. We will explore a diverse group of gothic styles, as well as options for tracing gothic letters with different tools. For all audiences, no previous experience with calligraphy needed.

Workshop: Type for Lettering

Oct 27 – Oct 28, 2022

Type Design and Lettering sometimes feel in opposition to each other: Type is largely a game of systems, while Lettering allows for more improvisation.

@rotulacion.tradicional

Eduardo is a sign painter from Guadalajara, Mexico. He is the person behind the Rotulación Tradicional (Traditional Sign Painting). Ever since childhood he has been passionate about letterforms, a passion that eventually evolved into a craft. Eduardo is mostly a self-taught artist, having had his first approach to the trade in a workshop that already carried more than 40 years of practice. He has continued to nurture the tradition of sign painting that has been on the verge of extinction in that city.

Giovanni Bautista

@rotulos.bautista

Giovanni Bautista is a Oaxacan graphic designer and a sign painter. He has been in touch with letterforms from an early age through the sign painting trade, a craft of making Mexican popular art that his father had dedicated his life to since 1980, making traditional signs and drawings. Currently, Giovanni directs and executes different projects at the workshop, he has taught Mexican sign painting workshops at the San Agustín Center for the Arts and at the Artes de México publishing house.