This class will be taught in English by Liza Enebeis and Donald Beekmann.

Making audio pieces from typefaces in cooperation with the KABK Type & Media Master, The Hague, includes presentation/trip to The Hague in the second week of February after the Rundgang and Infotag.

In the recent years, more and more designers treat themselves as writers, architects, philosophers, artists, photographers, not only as ‘2d-information- visualizers’. They take their design-knowledge/vision, and transport it into another surrounding. Graphic-designers which use another medium to express their ideas. As long as you remember your background, your knowledge, and your ‘not-knowledge’, there is nothing wrong with it, and the process can bring up interesting results. But without forgetting: we are no writers, no photographers, no architects; but this doesn’t mean that we are bound to a 2 dimensional surrounding to express our design ideas.

Background Info:

Typeradio is the radio channel on type and design. Typeradio is a paradox in terms. Type is printed and radio talks. Typeradio is naturally speech on type.

It is a MicroFM broadcast, a MP3 radio stream and a podcast station. Initiated in 2004 by Underware (Akiem Helmling, Bas Jacobs and Sami Kortemaki), in collaboration with DBXL – graphic and type designer Donald Beekman and LoveLiza – Liza Enebeis also a graphic designer.

The team visits different design events around the world, to meet designers and to talk. From Peter Saville to Stefan Sagmeister, from Mathew Carter to Erik van Blokland. With 5000 listeners daily (its quite a lot ;)

The Assignment:

Each person will be given a typeface to which you can illustrate it in sound. Create a 30 second to one minute typographic sound piece. Your piece will be published on Typeradio.

On completion of your assignment your soundpiece will be given to one of the Master Students from Type and Media in the Hague. They will in turn translate your sound piece into type.

At a joint presentation in The Hague in February, we will hear and see the results, likely with the designers of the original typefaces in attendance.

(Excursion to The Hague will be combined with a trip to Ghent and our partner school on the way, and a visit to Marta Cerda’s studio in Amsterdam. See separate entry).