Book Basics with Free Software with with Mirko Velimirovic & Faride Mereb (Online)

Schedule:  Jun 30 & Jul 7, 2021 — 2pm – 4pm (ET); 
1pm - 3pm (CT); 12pm - 2pm (MT); 11am - 1pm (PT); 

Students will learn how to layout a book using Figma. The instructors will explain basics for layout composition, exporting methods, and provide tips for free licensed fonts and images by Creative Commons usage.

Required materials: A computer with Figma downloaded

Location/Venue/Time : Online with Center for Book Arts
For more info & pictures:  https://centerforbookarts.org/classes/book-basics-with-free-software  
Cost/Fee: $80
Material/Studio fee: N/A

Their workshop calendar: https://centerforbookarts.org/online-learning/

Instructor and bio: Faride Mereb is an award-winning book designer, art director, researcher and editor. Originally from Venezuela, she is currently based in New York City and holds ongoing artistic collaborations in Latin America and Europe. She is the founder of Letra Muerta Press and continues to work with master printer Javier Aizpurua in Venezuela for his renowned press Ex Libris. She was exhibited at the Center for Book Arts in a 2020 Featured Artist Project titled The Private Life of Rag Dolls.

Mirko Velimirovic is a Lettering Artist, Type Designer, and Font Engineer working in NYC. Currently he contributes work to Darden studio, and open source variable font projects on Github. In 2019 through January of 2020 he was the chapter lead of Type Thursday NYC. He has guest lectured in classes on type design at SVA, and ECUAD. When he’s not doing calligraphy, he spends his time wrangling difficult software problems in FOSS and NDA font projects. The rest of the time he spends entertaining his two cats.