The 2-week workshop, initiated by the school’s professor for typography and type design Wim Westerveld, E MOTION M BODY X PRESS took place from June 20th until July 1st 2022, at the School of Art and Design Berlin-Weissensee (Weißensee Kunsthochschule Berlin) with the following students: Merel van Altena, Paula Meyer-Clason, Xin Li, Lena Richter, Ziwei Wang, Carla Baumeister, Greta Cazzola, Salvor Solnes, Vladimira Valkova, Bär Kittelmann, Stéphanie Kiser, Elene Zhorzholiani, Paul Michels, Kaja Krebs, Lisa Sinram & Ida Guev.

From the publication: “Text versus image, an age old tale... the letters of the latin alphabet originated from pictures and slowly evolved into abstract, phonetic symbols. The aim of the two-week seminar was to explore the relationship between image and type and draw typefaces with a re-instilled, embodied sense of imagery. From a list of aesthetic terms such as bauhaus, horror, nature, baroque, dada, techno, fantasy, kitsch, funk, brutalism, etc. each student chose one to define the style and conceptual direction of their font. Approaching the terms via associative, analog research (photocopying images from library books), the students created evocative, emotional and expressive typefaces.”

Type is saying things to us all the time. Typefaces express a mood, an atmosphere. They give words a certain colouring. – Rick Poynor