Welcome to the five-day programme of workshops and speaker presentations. Click on the days above (or use the navigation on the left) and take a stroll through to find out what happened at TypeSHED11. To find out more, go to the speakers section, where you can read a brief synopsis of each of the lectures (click on their names), or the workshops section, where you can find out more ...
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Watch some of the films, interviews and title sequences we screened in between speakers ...
14.02/2009
/ narration / Catherine Zask
/ short film / ‘N or NW’ / Len Lye / NZ Film Archive
/ interview / Paula Scher / Hillman Curtis
/ short film / ‘Coubray’ / NZ Film Archive
/ interview / Massimo Vignelli / from ‘Helvetica’
/ interview / Ed Benguiat / Typeradio
15.02/2009
/ title sequence / ‘From Russia with Love’ / Robert Brownjohn
/ title sequence / ‘The Man with the Golden Arm’ / Saul Bass
/ short film / ‘Bomb - Dun’ / Erich Weiss
/ interview / Milton Glaser / Hillman Curtis
/ short film / ‘Ariel’s Song’ / Len Lye / NZ Film Archive
/ experimental films / Catherine Zask
/ music video / ‘Don’t Look Back’ / Bob Dylan
<< Very special thanks to the artists, designers and organisations who gave us permission to show >>
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TypeSHED11 workshop days
Wednesday 11
0830-1000h | sign in at Shed 11
1000-1800h | workshops / New York TDC54 and TDC2 exhibition / Le cadavre exquis exhibition / Churchward Typefaces Display Stand work space
Thursday 12
0830-1000h | sign in at Shed 11
1000-1800h | workshops / two Fontlab lectures / installation/field-trip / New York TDC54 and TDC2 exhibition / Le cadavre exquis exhibition / Churchward Typefaces Display Stand work space
1900-2100h | symposium opening evening drinks
TypeSHED11 symposium days
Friday 13
0830-0900h | sign in at Shed 11
0900-1730h | speaker presentations / Typeradio interviews
1830-2000h | Launch of David Bennewith’s book, ‘Joseph Churchward’, and launch of ‘The National Grid’#5
Saturday 14
0830-0900h | sign in at Shed 11
0900-1745h | speaker presentations / Typeradio interviews
1800-1830h | Ed Benguiat talks to Typeradio
Sunday 15
0830-0900h | sign in at Shed 11
0900-1745h | speaker presentations / Typeradio interviews
1745-1845h | wrap-up with ‘The National Grid’ project / Le cadavre exquis auction, and more ...
What happened ...
The programme was for five days – two days of workshops (11–12 Feb) scattered across various locations including Shed 11, and three days of speaker presentations (13–15 Feb) in Shed 11. Typeradio, the Dutch online radio channel interviewed speakers and attendees over the symposium days, including a TS11-special interview with Ed Benguiat in New York; three exhibitions were on show in Shed 11 – the TDC54 and TDC2 shows from New York; NZ identity – an exquisite cadaver, a series of nine posters, curated by Leonardo Sonnoli; and The Churchward International Typefaces Display Stand – an installation and workspace with a Fuji Xerox photocopier and Joseph Churchward, David Bennewith and Warren Olds; New Zealand artist Matthew Crooks presented the typographic form in TypeSHED11 Billboard, a project commissioned by the Adam Art Gallery, with Oggi; Alaskan Karen Larsen performed an experimental installation with disappearing letterforms on the rugged Wellington coastline; Austrian Walter Bohatsch explored the spoken form of language ... these are just some of the gems we had lined up ...
We thank you for your registration – it was great to see you at TypeSHED11 (voted Best Event of the Year by Urbis magazine)!
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‘Shouting doesn’t make hearing easier’ and ‘Please open your mouth and speak clearly’– two posters from the 2007 series designed by DDB Auckland for Deaf Awareness Week. Each year, in the last week of September, the National Foundation for the Deaf focuses on a significant issue affecting the deaf and hearing impaired people of New Zealand.
Posters courtesay National Foundation for the Deaf
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