Visual Alphabet: Combining Typography and Photography Workshop at WonderEight

As part of the Beirut Design Week 2013, WonderEight will be hosting a workshop on combining typography and photography by Karim Abou Rizk.

Our world is flooded with fleeting messages, both printed and electronic, and your role, as designers, is to make each message distinctive and inviting. By pushing the boundaries of typography into a warm playfulness, we grow closer to touching people’s hearts and raising their sympathy.

This course invites you to arrange almost any material into letters and then photograph it. Carve a word from ice or spread it with jam, what is great about this is that both the act and result of creation get captured in the form of a photograph.

If you’re an art director, a designer or simply an adventurist and you’re bored with how impersonal information is becoming, this course will refresh your notions and remind you that the freedom to play leads to stunning results.

Karim’s 10 years of experience encompass almost every field of design from art direction and branding to photography and computer graphics. He swears by experimentation and has an eye for detail that is unlike any we know.