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To participate you are kindly asked to fill in the form below. You are required to add your CV and a PDF with an overview of your work (min 5, max 10 projects). The summer school is open to people from a variety of disciplines, therefore work of any character and form may be submitted.

 

Name your files:

your_name_cv.pdf / your_name_cv.doc

your_name_works.pdf

 

Maximum size for the PDF is 10 MB. Please be patient with the uploads.

 

Application deadline is June 15, 2015.

 

 

Asterisk Summer School 2015 departs from notions of collaboration, friendship and common interests. For this occasion Asterisk invites four pairs that share an affinity to each other’s work to lead the workshops. The tutors this year are:

 

Sam de Groot (NL) & Paul Haworth (UK)
Karel Martens (NL) & Jungmyung Lee (KR)
Will Holder (UK) & Isla Leaver-Yap (UK)
Jan Tomson (EE) & Hannes Praks (EE)

 

In its essence the practice of a graphic designer entails a close conversation with a variety of voices from different fields, such as commissioners, editors, printers, binders, papers suppliers, programmers, project managers, so on and so forth. Next to that, like-minded designers are known to form clusters, building on the expertise of one another. Communication with people from in and outside the field often develop into more profound friendships and modes of working together. That’s where work and playtime, as well as the clear borders of different disciplines, begin to diffuse and create new work with a hybrid character.

PROGRAMME

 

Duration: 28.07—06.08 (10 days)

Location: Rauaniidi/Suva/Punane Koit factory

Participants: 32

Language: English

 

The program for the Asterisk Summer School consists of two sets of daily workshops and two days of seminars. Each participant can take part in two workshops in total. Next to the action-packed workshop days two additional days are programmed, with workshop presentations as well as talks by tutors taking part in this year’s summer school. These days are open for the general public to join. A more detailed programme will follow in the beginning of July!

APPLY

 

Asterisk Summer School is open for graphic designers, artists, theorists, critics, curators and others interested.

 

• 32 participants in total will be accepted
• Applicants will be notified by June 22, 2015
• Applicants will be accepted based on the submitted work and CV

 

Participation fee for the summer school is €200*. The amount includes workshop fees and basic work materials.

*Participation fee for Estonian students is €100.

 

To take part in Asterisk Summer School 2015, press the button ‘Apply’ on top right corner of the page.

 

Application deadline is June 15, 2015.

 

 

If you have further questions, offers or other thoughts, don’t hesitate to contact us via e-mail summerschool@asterisk.ee

 

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Asterisk Summer School is run by graphic designers Elisabeth Klement and Laura Pappa. We’re kindly supported by the Cultural Endowment of Estonia, Estonian Council of Gambling Tax, Estonian Academy of Arts and the Graphic Design department of the Estonian Academy of Arts. Thanks: Ranno Ait ja Rene Mäe. Website: Ranno Ait

 

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JAN TOMSON

Jan Tomson is a graphic designer and artist based in Amsterdam and Tallinn. He teaches at the graphic design department at the Gerrit Rietveld Academie and in the interior architecture department at the Estonian Academy of Arts. Tomson works on visual identity projects in the cultural, commercial and public sector. Alongside commissioned work he collaborates with musicians, artists, architects, entrepreneurs and designers on various projects including printed matter, sound design, spatial research and product design, constantly refreshing perspectives on design practice and its shifting conditions. Questioning the formal and material qualities of commercial graphics, Tomson works as an artist and has exhibited work in various galleries in Estonia and abroad. He’s also running the independent record label Rets Records and is a recording artist.

HANNES PRAKS

Hannes Praks is an interior architect and beekeeper based in Tallinn. Since 2014 he’s running the Interior Architecture department at the Estonian Academy of Arts. His recent projects include the exhibition Kaamos on Estonian fashion in Tallinn and London (2013) and interior architecture for Narva College (2012), which has won many awards. Praks has been part of the organising committee for the music festival Schilling (2010–2012) and is the founder of Kohvirecords (1998), record label that exports local electronic music. He describes himself: ‘I am a fourth generation beekeeper, our family traditions don’t allow accepting that Twitter and smart refridgerators have made their way into this world.

Hannes and Jan Tomson have collaborated on various projects, including album covers, set design for Schilling festival, interiors and graphics for a number of cafés, and are both in the committee for the educational plan of the Interior Architecture department in Tallinn.

SAM DE GROOT

Sam de Groot (Amsterdam, 1985) works as a freelance graphic designer, mainly designing books. Since 2011 he teaches typography at the Gerrit Rietveld Academie, Amsterdam. Under the name TRUE TRUE TRUE he publishes books. Since 2007 he has collaborated with Paul Haworth on books, performances, prints and music. Their debut album, Illegal Emotions, was released in 2015. www.samdegroot.nl, www.truetruetrue.org, www.illegal-emotions.xxx

PAUL HAWORTH

Paul Haworth (Lancaster, 1982) is an artist who works with words and performance. He recently self-published Deeply Emotional, an essay about theatre and art. His trilogy of novels, Silk Handkerchiefs, and ANDY DE FIETS: LETTER TO ROBIN KINROSS, co-written with Sam de Groot, were published by TRUE TRUE TRUE. He has performed at Battersea Arts Centre, the Barbican Centre, Victoria and Albert Museum and the Stedelijk Museum Bureau Amsterdam. www.homelovin.co.uk

KAREL MARTENS

Karel Martens is a freelance graphic designer, specializing in typography. Alongside working for clients, he has always made free non-commissioned graphic and three-dimensional work. Next to designing books and other printed items, he has designed façades for a number of buildings. Several books have been published about his work, including Printed Matter (1996,  2001, 2010), Counterprint ( 2004), Full Color (2013) and most recently Reprint (2015). Karel Martens has taught graphic design since 1977, among others at the Jan van Eyck Academie in Maastricht (1994-99) and since 1997 he is teaching in New Haven at Yale University School of Art. In 1998 he co-founded the postgraduate programme Werkplaats Typografie in Arnhem as part of ArtEZ Institute for the Arts. In 2014 he left the WT.

JUNGMYUNG LEE

Jungmyung Lee is an freelance graphic designer based in the Netherlands mainly focusing on types and project-based performances. She currently studies at the Werkplaats Typografie in Arnhem (2013-2015) while running Jung-Lee Type Foundry (2015). In 2010, she co-founded Helsinki Type Studio with four other type designers in Finland experimenting with the visual stream of contemporary culture by redefining typography.

WILL HOLDER

Typographer Will Holder organises writing around cultural objects. He sees conversation as model and tool for a mutual and improvised set of publishing conditions whereby the usual roles of commissioner, author, subject, editor, printer and typographer are improvised and shared, as opposed to assigned and pre-determined.

Holder is editor of F.R.DAVID, a journal concerned with reading and writing in the arts (published by de Appel, Amsterdam, since 2007). In May 2009 he co-curated TalkShow (with Richard Birkett) at the ICA, London. Together with Alex Waterman, he edited Yes, But Is It Edible?, the music of Robert Ashley, for two or more voices (New Documents, 2014). Holder is currently developing a protocol and interface for a collectively compiled catalogue of the Bob Cobbing archive.

ISLA LEAVER-YAP

Isla Leaver-Yap works with artists to produce essays, books, exhibitions, and events. Collaborative projects recently include work with Giles Bailey, Ericka Beckman, Stan Brakhage, Elaine Cameron-Weir, Moyra Davey, Maria Fusco, Laura Guy, Pat Hearn, Fatima Hellberg, Florrie James, Derek Jarman, Park McArthur, Conal McStravick, Lucy McKenzie, Charlotte Prodger, James Richards, Scott Rogers, Mary Simpson, and Dena Yago. She is based in Glasgow where she is Project Director of LUX Scotland, and Minneapolis where she is the Walker Art Center’s Bentson Film Scholar. leaveryap.wordpress.com