It's all Graphic #13 Other Typographies: Reshaping language from distinct perspectives

IT'S ALL GRAPHIC #13

Other Typographies: Reshaping language from distinct perspectives

Tuesday 03-06-2025

20:00 - 22:00 hrs

Admission is free, but please register

This iteration of ‘It's All Graphic’ aims to aims to explore conditions surrounding the typographic reproduction of language through different perspectives.

On the 3rd of June 2025 the Wim Crouwel Institute will host a discussion inviting designers to talk about their practices, expanding the field of typography and type design. While sharing insight from their practices the panellists focus on ways of typography and distributing type design as much as disseminating their work.

The discussions will depart from positions of countering dominant norms of design, working against typographical hegemonies and practicing design rooted in identities and positions. If conformity may come with concerns of homogeneity and exclusion, how can practices of typography play a key role in social change?

These subjects will take to the stage and insights shared from:

. Céline Hurka is an independent type designer based in The Hague, NL. In her practice, she aims to play with, question, and break prevailing conventions. She is a member of the Zefir7 collective, organising talks at Stroom Den Haag, and has been lecturing at various institutions internationally, including the MA program Type and Media (Royal Academy of Arts, The Hague), and the MA Art Direction program of LABASAD (Barcelona). In 2023 she launched her foundry and has been expanding her catalogue ever since.

. Xiaoyuan Gao is a Rotterdam-based freelance graphic designer, image-maker, type designer and the initiator of “notyourtype foundry”. While experimenting with unconventional approaches to type design and typesetting, she sees type design as a tool making process. The foundry is dedicated to showcasing and supporting experimental type design works of BIPOC and FLINTA* designers and assists people by offering technical support and publishing plans for their type design works.

. Johanna Ehde & Elisabeth Rafstedt are graphic designers and founders of the Amsterdam (NL) based design collective Rietlanden Women’s Office (RWO). Their practice is interested in current and historical issues connected to the role of women in (reproductive) work and collaborative graphic design. The basis of their work is a printed publication series called MsHeresies — an inquiry into collaborative graphic design practices and the ornament as a form of work critique.

MODERATORS

. Elisabeth Klement is an Estonian graphic designer, educator, and organiser living and working in Amsterdam. Elisabeth teaches in the Graphic Design department at Gerrit Rietveld Academie. Together with Pieter Verbeke founded San Serriffe(2011), an art and design book shop, exhibition space, workshop and performance venue in Amsterdam. Since 2022 Elisabeth is the art director of Metropolis M magazine. As a graphic designer, Elisabeth leads a practice rooted in design justice and collectivity.

. Kylièn Sarino Bergh is a researcher, writer and practitioner in the field of graphic design. He is a fellow of the Wim Crouwel Institute in Amsterdam (NL), board member of Zefir7 and lecturer histories and theories of graphic design at the Royal Academy of Arts in The Hague, the Vrije Universiteit in Amsterdam and the University of Amsterdam.

ON THE ORGANIZER

It's all Graphic is a series of events on graphic design, addressing its cultural and social impact. It is co-produced between the Wim Crouwel instituut and Pakhuis de Zwijger, and supported by the NADD (NetwerkArchieven Design en Digitale Cultuur). The Wim Crouwel Institute investigatesthe heritage, current and future position of Dutch graphic design. The WimCrouwel Institute is supported by Bijzondere Collecties/Allard Pierson and Pictoright Fonds.