If you’re curious about the possibilities of graphic design, join us for a live session with three talented designers, who will show you what your text can become. Co-curated with Trang Ha and Paulina Trzeciak, this Typographic Night session will host:

Cleo Tsw is a Singapore-born designer, writer, and editor based in Amsterdam, the Netherlands. She also runs Off Course, a publishing imprint concerned with cross-genre reading and writing.

Elliott Cost (born 1991, Maui, HI, USA) is an artist, designer, and programmer based in the Netherlands.He is currently working on “File Life Tours, a tour company and travel blog dedicated to letting go of files, giving them a new life in the mountains and the oceans, Previously, he was a designer at Bloomberg News and Kickstarter’s The Creative independent. He co-founded HTML Energy, a movement about returning to the source; built Special Fish, a small community website; and created Gossip’s Wet and Cossip’s Cafe, sites for exploring and sharing personal websites.

Simon Browne is a designer and researcher who is trying to understand what it is to make graphic design within the public domain. As such, he works with FLOSS (free/libre open-source software) design and publishing tools and prefers DIWO (Do it With Others) approaches. In conversation with peers and through collective documentation he is figuring things out as he goes, such as how to deal with hybridity, non-linear workflows, instantaneousness and the trickiness of micro-typography in the browser. He graduated in 2020 with a Master in Experimental Publishing from the Piet Zwart Institute in Rotterdam, where he initiated a bootleg library – a social/ohvsical/diaital collection of texts. Currently, Simon is interested in documents, their distribution and the social conditions of publishing that don’t make it into most colophons. He is a member of the collectives Varia and OSP (Open Source Publishing), and a peer at CC (Creative Crowds).

Typographic Nights programme is kindly supported by the Pictoright Fonds.