I am collaborating with the Birmingham Institute of Art & Design (part of Birmingham City University) on the production of ‘Baskerville’ - a short animation celebrating the life, work and influence of the city’s typographic genius (www.baskervilleproject.com). The film will be premiered this autumn at the Hello Digital Festival, 23-26 October 2008. (www.hellodigital.net).
Production on the animation has now commenced and we are looking for compositors, typographers, lettering artists, calligraphers and other creatives who would like to participate in a day of filming. Artists will be recorded while creating individual letters through printing, drawing, carving, incising etc. The letters will be used in a multi-screen installation spelling out the name Baskerville.
Filming is scheduled for Monday 22 September 2008 in the Milo Studio, Birmingham Institute of Art & Design, Gosta Green?, Corporation Street?, Birmingham? B4 7DX.
If you would like to take part in this project and see your letters on the silver screen then please contact me:
Caroline Archer | caroline@uktype.com | 0121 766 7948
Caroline has worked in the typographic industry since 1988. She has a holistic approach to the subject being not only a practicing typographer but also a teacher of its theory, a researcher of its history, and a writer and journalist championing the typographic cause.