Design a Printers' Mark (Summer 2023)

Design a Printers' Mark (Summer 2023)This in person workshop takes place at Center for Book Arts on Tuesday nights, April 25, May 2, and May 9 from 68pm. Complete Schedule: Tuesday, April 25, 6: 008: 00pm Tuesday, May 2, 6: 008: 00pm Tuesday, May 9, 6: 008: 00pm About This Workshop: This in person workshop is taught by instructor Mirko Velimirovic. Throughout the history of printing, bookmakers have distinguished their printing houses or their specific designs with printers' marks. This

This in-person workshop takes place at Center for Book Arts on Tuesday nights, April 25, May 2, and May 9 from 6–8pm.

Complete Schedule:

• Tuesday, April 25, 6:00–8:00pm
• Tuesday, May 2, 6:00–8:00pm
• Tuesday, May 9, 6:00–8:00pm

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About This Workshop:

This in-person workshop is taught by instructor Mirko Velimirovic. Throughout the history of printing, bookmakers have distinguished their printing houses or their specific designs with printers' marks. This course will delve into the history of printer's mark making, and examine how we might continue this rich aesthetic tradition with both modern and traditional tools. Students will study historical examples of printers' marks provided by the instructor, as well as sourced from the CBA library. After gathering knowledge about common aesthetic practices for printers' marks students will learn to draw their own marks using a variety of drawing tools and working iteratively via tracing paper. Then students will digitize their marks for further use.

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Required Materials

• Laptop
• Adobe Illustrator

All other materials and tools will be provided.

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About the Instructor

Mirko Velimirovic is a Lettering Artist, Type Designer, and Font Engineer working in NYC. Currently, he contributes work to Darden studio and open-source variable font projects on Github. From 2019 through January of 2020, he was the chapter lead of Type Thursday NYC. He has guest lectured in classes on type design at SVA, and ECUAD. When he’s not doing calligraphy, he spends his time wrangling difficult software problems in FOSS and NDA font projects. The rest of the time he spends entertaining his two cats. All images courtesy of the instructor.