Graphema

Two professional designers of typeface, calligraphy and lettering, Zhaklina Zhekova and Todor Georgiev, will create a handwritten (written in hand with a flat brush) digital typeface for a Bulgarian variant of the Cyrillic alphabet.

They will present their project at the Graphema exhibition (4 – 30 October, at SKLAD with free entry) featuring compositions created mainly with the typeface but enhanced with various experimental calligraphic techniques. The exhibition will be accompanied by a series of objects morphing from a 2-D to 3-D shape and presenting the unique shape and exquisiteness of each letter of the Bulgarian alphabet.

A calligraphy workshop will take place at SKLAD on 12 October 2019, at which the main principles of letter forming and sharing of techniques for the creation of a handwritten typeface.

The project is a Letter Collective production.