ALBERT EINSTEIN’S BRAIN
Notices
INTRODUCTION DAY
Dear students,
We would like to invite you to come to school this coming Thursday September 6 at 14.00 hours at the second floor. We will introduce you to the department and hand out the schedules for this coming semester.
Hope to meet you all there.
Best wishes,
Linda van Deursen
The teachers
MEDIAMATIC HAS A FABLAB
A FabLab is a public workspace where everybody can turn their ideas into real products, with the help of new cutting-edge machines. The FabLab is open during el Hema opening hours – Thursday / Saturday from 18.00-22.00 and Sunday from 14.00- 18.00 hours. But it’s also possible to make an appointment or to drop by at our open sessions, every Wednesday from 18.00 hours. (More information can be found here: www.mediamatic.net/article-19942-en.html)
FABLAB WORKSHOP on SPATIAL TYPOGRAPHY
Around the possibilities of the FabLab, Mediamatic organised a workshop on spatial typography: letters on walls, in public spaces, suspended in air, as shadow forms, etcetera.
The workshop is intended for graphic -, product -, exhibition and other designers, architects, and others interested in using letters spatially. Participants to the workshop can make their own spatial typographic prototype, and recieve a thorough introduction in the FabLab machines. Mirthe Blussé and Rein Jansma will introduce the concepts of the workshop, technical coaching is in the hands of Bernardo Gaeiras and Irene Nooren. (More information on the workshop and the trainers can be found at www.mediamatic.net/fablabworkshop)
The workshop takes place at
Wednesday September 12, from 10.00 till 17.00 hours
in the FabLab at Mediamatic, PostCS building, ground floor, (side-entrance),
Oosterdokskade 5, Amsterdam.
Participation fee is € 150,- inc. VAT.
You can register at www.mediamatic.net/workshopregistration
The FabLab @ Mediamatic is made possible thanks to Fablab Foundation, de Waag Society, Amsterdamse Innovation Motor, Regional Technocentre Amsterdam, Syntens, Roland en Epilog.
NEW WEBSITE OF GRA
Gerrit Rietveld Academy has published their new website with the graduation show 2007. In the new website of Gra it is possible to see all the graduation works of the students with their names, images and contact addresses.
Link: www.rietveldacademie.nl
WOULD YOU THEN FALL FOR ME?
Hello graphic designers! If you need a break from your own project… Would you then fall for me?
Thursday the 7th of June
at 15.oo in Beeldentuin/
Westerpark/Haarlemmerweg 8-10,
1014 BE Amsterdam
Look for the crane and explode with me. You would be a great great great great help in my project (videofilm). Lollipops and other sweet stuff for everyone! Hope to see you on the grass! - and all your Amsterdammer friends are very much welcome too! (I try to join 80 people but it’s a bit difficult being new in town).
Best,
Barbara Amalie Skovmand Thomsen
tilbarbara@gmail.com
http://www.myspace.com/barbarathomsens
