MARK JAMRA / with guest designer Melle Hammer August 12 - 16
"The strangest fate I've heard of yet: to romp with a beast called Alphabet".

The Definition of Letters
"Understand the brick and you will build a better house." Nothing beats a direct experience in creating letterforms for developing a more knowledgeable, accurate and sensitive usage of type. This workshop combines that experience with challenging and unconventional investigations into the defining characteristics of type designs. Studio work includes individual consultation and group critiques during the creation process. Guest typographer Melle Hammer will be on hand to provide second opinions, a different perspective and the element of surprise. The result is an intensive week of cavorting with the ancient building blocks of visual communication.

BIO
Mark Jamra received his bfa in graphic design at Kent State University and completed his graduate studies in 1983 at the School of Design in Basel, Switzerland. He has lectured and published essays on type and typography, and taught letterform design and history at the Hamburg University of Applied Arts and Sciences and the Polytechnic in Kiel. He has been a typographic consultant to the Hewlett-Packard Research Laboratories in Bristol, England and for urw Software & Type GmbH in Hamburg, Germany where he lived and worked as a designer from 1984 to 1995. His work and writing have been published in various international periodicals and books including Graphis Typography 1, Delta D (Greece) and Visual and Technical Aspects of Type from the Cambridge University Press.

Mark is a type designer, typographic designer and currently Associate Professor at Maine College of Art. He has had his own design practice for over a decade and is also a partner in Alice Design Communication, a design collective in Portland, Maine. His typeface designs include: Alphatier, Brynmorgen Greek, Expo Sans, Quelle Bold ‹ a corporate font for Europešs largest mailorder company, Latienne, itc Jamille and Kinesis, an Adobe Original. His lettering and typefaces have been shown in numerous exhibitions, including About Faces: Contemporary Issues in Type Design at Harvardšs Houghton Library and in the Graphic Design Biennale in Brno, Czech Republic. In 2001, Alphatier and Kinesis were chosen as winners in the Association Typographique Internationalešs first international typeface design competition. Alphatier was also selected as a winner in 2002 Type Directors Club.

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