When you love letters, every letter is a love letter

Dear letters lovers,

OSP is happy to start the plotter workshop series, a series of four workshops from February to June, focusing on languages and uses related to pen plotters.

The first workshop will focus on the so called single line fonts.

Bring your favorite font.

Together with our special guest Mariel Nils, we will write love letters to current, future, past lovers, friends, favorite glyphs, summer lake, collective, picture, preferred useless object, etc. We will revisit the font(s) you brought using one of our recipes. Through a series of scripts and steps we'll find their shaking spines (ductus or central line). We will then draw your declarations on paper, envelope or fabric using the spines and a pen-plotter machine.

While we'll work with fonts, this is not a workshop about type design rather an encounter with the tangibility of letterforms, pens and algorithmic processing. Join us for this introduction to rafting on the river in the heart of our glyphs throughout a set of software pieces.

What to bring? - your favorite font (the curviest the best) as a file (.otf, .ttf) - your computer

optional : - special papers - pieces of fabric

We can only welcome a limited amount of participants and we aim for a diverse group in experiences.

Please send us an email with what you hope to find in the workshop and your curiosities around plotters, letter(shape)s or love letters…

Apply to this email address before February 5 : cookwithus@osp.kitchen

You can apply alone or as a small group.

We'll get back to you asap for confirmation and further information.

Funded by FWB