Inter­na­tional Soci­ety of Typo­graphic Design­ers stu­dent awards

ISTD win­ners from Mas­sey and Katie Taylor talk rescheduled.

The Green­space cre­at­ive dir­ector Katie Taylor talk­ing on spa­tial typo­graphy — Wel­ling­ton, at Mas­sey Col­lege of Cre­at­ive Arts, Fri­day 30 April at 5.30 pm.

Nick Kapica, from Mas­sey Col­lege of Cre­at­ive Arts, repor­ted yes­ter­day that the Inter­na­tional Soci­ety of Typo­graphic Design­ers (ISTD) stu­dent awards took place as planned des­pite European air­space chaos caused by a cloud of vol­canic ash pre­vent­ing guest speaker Katie Taylor reach­ing Wel­ling­ton. As the Icelandic vol­cano is calm­ing down and European air­space has re-opened, Taylor will give her talk on Fri­day 30 April at 5.30 pm in the Theatrette, Museum Build­ing on Buckle Street. Taylor, cre­at­ive dir­ector at The Green­space, Lon­don, will dis­cuss spa­tial typo­graphy through pro­jects she has worked on. Taylor is also sched­uled to speak at an upcom­ing Design­ers Insti­tute event – Design­ers Speak, in Auckland.

DINZ Design­ers Speak — Katie Taylor — Design­ers los­ing discipline — Auckland.

Kapica says that Mas­sey Uni­ver­sity stu­dents were par­tic­u­larly suc­cess­ful in the inter­na­tional assess­ment scheme ini­ti­ated by the soci­ety – "scoop­ing 6 of the 12 Aus­tralasian awards made".

"Taryn Bell and Erin Ross both suc­cess­fully reached the high stand­ard expec­ted, Tim Denee and Emma Stone were awar­ded a Merit and Tessa Gour­ley and Les­ley Gil­liam received Com­mend­a­tions, the highest level of award pos­sible," he says.

Speak­ing in place of Taylor, three Mas­sey lec­tur­ers explored spa­tial typo­graphy. Kapica, an ISTD board mem­ber, presen­ted a way­find­ing pro­ject for a uni­ver­sity in Ber­lin which his stu­dio SV Asso­ci­ates com­pleted before he moved to Wel­ling­ton to teach typo­graphy, inform­a­tion design and spa­tial typo­graphy at Mas­sey University.

Annette O'Sullivan, ISTD mem­ber and lec­turer to the suc­cess­ful Mas­sey stu­dents, shared her recent typo­graphic dis­cov­er­ies from sheep sta­tions in the South Island – fas­cin­at­ing research into his­toric sten­cil let­ter forms telling a story of early brand iden­tity and com­mu­nic­a­tion sys­tems. Mat­thijs Siljee com­pleted the trio, with insights into spa­tial typo­graphy with an excur­sion – using his 'hol­i­day pho­tos' he explored how space can be an instru­ment of com­mu­nic­a­tion, provid­ing evid­ence that type can be space, and space can replace type completely.

Work from the ISTD Stu­dent Awards. Check back later for a com­plete galllery of winner's work.

– ProDesign staff

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