In the current climate of arrested utopias, attacks on cultural heritage, assaults on imagination and knowledge, Imago Mundi, Luciano Benetton’s global art project, comes to Venice to propose an art without borders that breaks the silence, goes beyond differences, pushes forward civilization. The exhibition MAP OF THE NEW ART includes collections from more than 40 …
Forfatter: Lars Pryds
Non-toxic workshop day 6
. With just one day left of the non-toxic intaglio workshop we feel the pressure of too little time left to finish our experiments and try out all possibilities presented to us by Henrik Bøegh, our patient instructor. Things are beginning to shape up, however, and each of the eight participants have found techniques that …
Good news: FF Real Superfamily released
This must be the best news today: The release of the FF Real Superfamily by FontFont. FF Real began as the voice of Erik Spiekermann’s biography Hello, I am Erik, (reviewed in SNDS Magazine 4, 2014, p. 28-29) as his personal and efficiently beautiful revival of Helvetica – or as FontShop phrases it the design …
Non-toxic workshop day 3
The weather is hot, the view is magnificent, and we’re working hard – the intaglio workshop is in motion. The great advantage of the non-toxic approach is that it’s possible to work with all steps in the process anywhere, even in your kitchen. And that’s exactly what we’re doing here – in Åse and Henrik’s …
Non-toxic workshop day 1
. I’m in Capileira, 1.436 metres above sea level in the hot mountains of Granada, Spain – attending a one-week international workshop in non-toxic intaglio printing. The last intaglio print I made was twenty years ago, in a symposium by the Gudenå river near Silkeborg, Denmark – so it’s about time I got my hands …