Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna

Next Tuesday, February 2, the new episode of Shapeshifters 2010 - Source is of special interest for people interested in typography, calligraphy, language, and the alphabet. The two speakers that evening will be Timothy Donaldson and Prof. Johannes Bergerhausen.

Tuesday 02/02

Timothy Donaldson (UK)

Timothy Donaldson is a letterworker. He developed an obsessive interest in drawing during his first decade which matured into another obsession with writing during his second one. During his third decade he was a journeyman sign writer. By his fourth decade he had become a lettering artist and type designer and a lecturer at Stafford College School of Art. Now into his fifth decade, he focuses on his work as a Research Fellow at the University of Lincoln, UK.

Johannes Bergerhausen (DE)

Prof. Johannes Bergerhausen, born 1965 in Bonn, Germany, studied Communication Design at the University of Applied Sciences in Düsseldorf. From 1993 to 2000, he lived and worked in Paris. First he collaborated with the founders of Grapus, Gérard Paris-Clavel and Pierre Bernard, then he founded his own office. In 1998 he was awarded a grant from the French Centre National des Arts Plastiques for a typographic research project on the ASCII-Code.

He returned to Germany in 2000 and, since 2002, is Professor of Typography at the University of Applied Sciences in Mainz. Lectures in Amiens, Beirut, Berlin, Dubai, Frankfurt, London, Paris, Prague, Rotterdam, San Francisco, Weimar. Since 2004, he is working on the decodeunicode.org project, supported by the German Federal Ministry of Education and Research, which went online in 2005. Semester of research 2007 in Paris.

Practical
Tickets | tickets@beursschouwburg.be or 02 550 03 50
Price | 12/10 euro, presale: 10/8,5 euro
All lectures will be in English, and start at 8 pm.
Beursschouwburg, A. Ortsstraat 20-28, 1000 Brussels