TypoCircle Workshop
Alice Ishiguro Tosey
Lou Sloper
Chairwoman of TypoCricle
- Thu 12th Jun, 2025
- BCU Curzon Lecture Theatre
- 11:00am or 2:00pm
- workshop
- Free – £40
- 120 mins
TypoCircle are delighted to host two playful workshops at Birmingham Design Festival this year.
We are a not-for-profit organisation bringing together anyone with an interest in design, craft and typography. We believe play is an integral part of any creative process, at any stage of career. Introduced by our Chair Louise Sloper & Alice Ishiguro Tosey, join us in welcoming and encouraging the spirit of play in our hands-on sessions.
Our morning workshop is all about ‘Typographic Truthiness’!
Coined by renowned designer Herb Lubalin, we will explore the influence type has on the meaning of its content and human psychology, and dive in to the true Superpower of Typography. We will twist, stretch and play with type and language to elevate truths or manipulate the masses. Get excited by the power of letters in a hybrid session both investigative and hands-on.
Open to everyone with a curiosity around and love of type, creative psychology and art direction.
Our afternoon session is for creative professionals, at any career level.
No typographic background is necessary, as we will collectively experiment and investigate the effects of language in communication. Together we will respond to how creativity can be a tool to forge connections across culture and language. We invite you to cut and re-assemble glyphs and characters from different alphabets to create new forms of communication through play and design. Included will be snippets of insight from some worldwide industry leaders, and friends of Typocircle, to inspire the craft of designing in different languages.
Hosts
Alice Ishiguro Tosey
Alice is a creative whose curiosity to explore her heritage, as well as develop creatively, has led her practice to span London, Tokyo and Kyoto. Working with design studios and collaborating directly with clients, she has refined and focused her career to create work for education, culture and non-profit organisations.
Alongside her professional work she develops personal projects and enjoys using creativity to form connections in community. Driven by purpose and motivated through shared learning, she’s passionate to work for positive change.
Alice is a key committee member of TypoCircle, leading our ‘Super Condensed’ programme for young creatives.
Lou Sloper
Chairwoman of TypoCricle
An awarded creative leader, Louise founded Here.We.Go. Studio to challenge existing creative agency models. Their work aims to design change in local communities as well as tackling global issues, existing to make a positive impact on equality, the environment, and society as a whole. Craft-orientated, strategic, change-making storytelling.
Listed in Campaign’s ’40 over 40′, Louise is ex-Head of Art & Design at BMB, Sky Creative and The&Partnership, and ex-Creative Design Director at BETC, growing the start-up agency, winning the global Bacardi and Diet Coke accounts, and creating the ‘Campaign Hall of Fame’ Cockburn’s work. She’s worked at BBH, innocent, the Natural History Museum, M&C Saatchi and JWT. Key moments include the worldwide refresh of the Bacardi brand, a Cannes Lions winning campaign for CALM with Love Island’s Chris Hughes, and Gold for Charity Art Direction at Creative Circle for their work on The Listening Planet.
BCU Curzon Lecture Theatre
Birmingham City University Curzon Building,
Cardigan Street,
Birmingham, UK