X-am is a typographic conference designed to bring together beginners and professionals of all artistic backgrounds. The conference is meant to open your eyes and allow you to take a close look at how subtle changes in a set of variables can radically alter a typographic form. Participants will attend lectures, workshops, critiques and social events with the intentions of gaining inspiration and growing as a designer and as a person. Workshops will explore analogue means of altering type through the use of every day items (mirrors, scissors, flashlights, paint, etc.). This three day conference will prove to be inspiration and hopefully allow you to generate new ideas for the construction for your own unique and personal means of type design.
Artist Bio:
RICK GRIFFITH, DESIGN DIRECTOR
"We are architects of the written word who believe that near every design challenge we encounter can be solved through effective representations of language. Through custom typography, and design, we strategize and implement effective communication vehicles to produce enduring solutions."
For just under 20 years, Rick Griffith has sought clarity about art and communication through the broad discipline of design. His projects & commercial works and projects have been cited in several national and international resources including TDC, AIGA 365, Print, Dwell, and Good Magazine. He has works published by Rotovision in the UK and Lawrence King and Rockport in the US. His and MATTER's work is included in the AIGA National Design Archives, the Denver Art Museum's Design permanent collection, The Butler Library of Rare Books and Manuscripts at Columbia University, and the Tweed Museum of Art at the University of Minnesota, Duluth.
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