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The Alchemist's Kitchen with Thomas Hoyer
Saturday & Sunday,
November 22 & 23, 2008, 9 a.m.-4 p.m.
Location: TBA
$95 PSC members
$120 non-members ($25 membership
included: please include a completed membership
form when registering)
Have you been to all the workshops, gathered scripts, techniques and tools, but never learned the “spells” to turn these ingredients into a piece of fine art?
Thomas Hoyer is one of the few calligraphers with a masters in graphic design and who mainly works as a freelance designer. Join him for a fun ride into the design world and let your mind run wild and stoke the fire of your imagination. Learn how to design a text, a word, the letters themselves. How to visualize a text’s content. How to add emotion and expression to your lettering. How to twist and turn the usual into the unusual. How to use both sides of your brain. And, best of all: How to break all the rules you have ever learned.
This workshop is not about a finished piece but to create a “spell-book” filled with ideas for to browse through if you have a text you want to write but have no idea how to. Ideas that can be used with any script or calligraphic tool you are familiar with and with any skill level.
Level: Experienced beginner/intermediate (should be familiar with at least one script)
Supply list: Your basic kit, and everything you like to work with. Some quotes.
About the instructor: Thomas Hoyer studied graphics and calligraphy in Aachen, Germany, the home town of Charlemagne with Prof. Werner Eikel He has worked for the Calligraphy Department of the Office of Foreign Affairs. Today he works as a freelance lettering artist for design agencies, institutions and private persons. Thomas has 12 years of teaching experience, and has given workshops throughout Germany as well as in the USA. For more info: www.calligraphycentre.com