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Letterform Live: Fashion, FL@33's Tomi Vollauschek invited to speak at sold out Letterform Live: Fashion event hosted by Grafik in partnership with Monotype. Protein Studios, 31 New Inn Yard, London, UK, 24 February 2016
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LETTERFORM LIVE: FASHION
FL@33's Tomi Vollauschek was kindly invited to speak at Grafik's hugely popular Letterform Live: Fashion event – a fun and informative evening at Protein Studios, filled with typography found in all things fashion…
___ Letterform Live speakers in order of appearance: Camille Walala, Tomi Vollauschek, Sean Murphy and Dal Chodha.
___ Each of the speakers zoomed in on a single letterform, exploring both its visual form as well as its context and history. Speakers were encouraged to share their letter's little-known secrets and reveal their personal relationship with the letter they’ve chosen.
LETTERFORM | TOMI VOLLAUSCHEK
Tomi's selected letterform and starting point was the letter V – taken from Horst P. Horst's Vogue June 1940 front cover experiment with model Lisa Fonssagrives. The Vogue cover features in FL@33's The 3D Type Book.
___ Not all slides were captured and are shown here but Tomi's talk featured examples, work and/or portraits of the following people and publications: Vogue, Lisa Fonssagrives Penn, Horst P. Horst, The Comical Hotch Potch or The Alphabet turn'd Posture-Master, Leonardo da Vinci, Vitruvian Man, Peter Flötner, Menschenalphabet / Human alphabet, The Man of Letters or Pierrot’s Alphabet, Kwadraat-Bladen, Wim Crouwel, New Alphabet, Anthon Beeke, Naked Ladies Alphabet, Giovanni Battista Bracelli, Alfabeto Figurato, Rowland Scherman, Love Letters, John H. Berg, Bob Dylan, Milton Glaser, Covent Garden Dance Centre, The 3D Type Book, Thijs Verbeek, Akatre, Amandine Allessandra, Thijs Verbeek, Kalle Mattson, Paul Elliman, Fuse, Commune Alphabet, Eric Cheung, Ice Hands, Winston Churchill, Donald Trump, Boris Johnson, John Lennon, Jarvis Cocker, Robert de Niro, John Travolta, Sienna Vollauschek, Manu Tuilagi, David Cameron.
PREVIOUS LETTERFORM CONTRIBUTION
See Tomi's Letterform contribution to Grafik magazine issue #193 from 2011 here.
PICTURE CREDITS
Some of the pictures here are shown with kind permission of Emma Young, Richard Kirk, Grafik and Theo Inglis – others are our own. The square pictures show slides of the other speakers.
