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Shapeshifters 2012 focuses on Designing Information

Render of the generative visual created by Jan Vantomme for Shapeshifters 2012.
The 2012 Shapeshifters lectures focus on how graphic designers visualise/transform information so that it becomes almost intuitively comprehensible. Six lecturers reflect from their own vision and know-how on interactive design, editorial/news design, data visualisation, exhibition design, cartography and wayfinding systems. On February 8 the series opened with Brendan Dawes – MoMA exhibited artist, designer, author, maker, self confessed generalist and the founder of Beep Industries – and renowned publication designer Mark Porter, who designs magazines, newspapers, books, websites and apps for content worth reading. Tonight, Wednesday March 7, Associate Professor at the Department of Architecture, Urbanism and Planning of the University of Leuven Andrew Vande Moere and eclectic designer Morag Myerscough will take the stage at the Beursschouwburg in Brussels. Morag Myerscough was one of the very popular speakers at TYPO London last October.

Render of the generative visual created by Jan Vantomme for Shapeshifters 2012.
Typeface: Arnhem Fine by Fred Smeijers

Andrew Vande Moere (B) is an Associate Professor at the Department of Architecture, Urbanism and Planning of the University of Leuven. He teaches about the symbiosis of media and space, exemplified by topics such as architectural computing, urban informatics, social visualization, interaction design and media architecture. Andrew acquired his PhD degree at the ETH-Zurich, Switzerland, after which he became a lecturer in Design Computing at the University of Sydney, Australia.

Since 2004, Andrew maintains the weblog Information Aesthetics, at which he collects compelling representations of data that are able to inform as well as engage the public at large. He is particularly interested in combining information visualization with creative design, in order to convey useful insight as well as to provoke personal reflection or behavioural persuasion. In his academic research, he explores how the communication of information can be pushed into physical reality without the use of electronic displays, by experimenting with small, wearable visualizations integrated in clothing, or large-scale infographics that are attached to architectural facades.

For more on Andrew Vande Moere read this interview on Pingmag.

Render of the generative visual created by Jan Vantomme for Shapeshifters 2012.
Typeface: Arnhem Fine by Fred Smeijers

“Morag Myerscough has produced an eclectic – and sometimes eccentric – body of work that is frequently unclassifiable but always offers a high level of engagement. She combines formal graphic design methodologies (typography, image making, colour theory) with highly individualist craft skills.”
Extract: Adrian Shaughnessy – Book: Supergraphics – Transforming Space: Unit 02 – Tony Brook and Adrian Shaughnessy

Morag studied at Central St Martin’s and the Royal College of Art, and started Studio Myerscough in 1993. Over the years she has concentrated on working way beyond the restrictions of 2-D and creates and curates many different types of work including a train as a café, numerous exhibitions, interpreting buildings plus running her own gallery and shop ‘her house’. Currently designing the permanent exhibition which will be in the New Design Museum, London. Collaboratively working with Cartlidge Levene on the wayfinding for the new extension at the Tate Modern, architects Herzog and De Meuron. Working on several social design projects, in hospitals and youth centres. Recently completed, working in a team with Zynga in San Francisco, on the spatial design of their new headquarters. Been out on the street with a public art installation for the Experimenta expo in Lisbon working with supergroup collaborator Luke Morgan. Plus much more…

Myerscough believes that wayfinding is not purely about a series of signs but as much about bringing out the narrative in the built environment, enhancing the physical experience, it is very important how people feel when they move through a space, if they can move easily almost unconsciously and if you can make them smile and feel happy that is one of the best outcomes.

For more on Morag Myerscough read this review of her presentation at TYPO London. You will be blown away by her idiosyncratic and inventive use of type.

Wednesday, March 7, 2012 - 8 pm
Tickets: €12/10 (call for availability)

Beursschouwburg
A. Ortsstraat 20–28, 1000 Brussels
02 550 03 50 - tickets@beursschouwburg.be
Lectures will be in English, and start at 8 pm.

07.03.2012 - 18.32.24

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