Description: Non-Latin Type Design Workshop - Bern / Switzerland
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In recent years the demands for typefaces covering multiple world languages and scripts have been rising dramatically. To provide designers with an opportunity to explore these unfamiliar territories, we conceived of a series of type workshops on a variety of world scripts.
This years workshop will be held between August 29 and September 1, 2018 in Bern, Switzerland and lead by type designers Irene Vlachou and Kostas Bartsokas. The workshop will be conducted in English and is intended for type designers wanting to add Greek to existing typefaces as well as those designing a Greek from scratch.
Irene Vlachou is a typeface designer working somewhere between Bristol and Athens. After trying life as an artist and a violinist, Irene found her vocation. Her terrible handwriting and horror of olives turned out to be no obstacles for her becoming a type designer specializing in Greek. In 2004 she gained her Masters in type design at the University of Reading and since then she has been collaborating with many international type foundries as a typeface designer and as a Greek type advisor. She designs ori