Topic:

Multilingual Typography & Layout

Brief description:

The course will focus on the intricate design principles and practical techniques for creating multilingual typography and layouts. Emphasising the unique typographic characteristics of Chinese and European languages, we will explore the play with type and their different cultural backgrounds and aesthetics. Type plays an important role in the creation of new compositions, so in a playful process we will bring together the differences and similarities of the different writing systems and play them off against each other. The Students will engage in hands-on projects to develop layouts that combine the specific forms of each system and balance/harmonise between them.

Biography:

Studio Lamm & Kirch is a graphic design studio focusing on the creation of visual identities, books and exhibitions in the broad field of the cultural sector. With our strong background in the production of printed matter, we focus on the intersection of digital and analogue publishing in a broader sense. Our approach is defined by continuous cooperations in shifting constellations. We like the old and the new, the obvious and the hidden.

Our work has been multiple times awarded at the International Poster Festival, Chaumont and at 100 beste Plakate as well as with the most beautiful Swiss books. and with Schönste deutsche Bücher and the Walter-Tiemann-Price. In 2018 we received the Award of the Mayor of the City of Brno for a graphic artist of the Brno Biennale.