Manufacturing Knowledge, A Collage Poster Design Workshop

In a time of digital overload and unaccountable information streams, it’s important to get in touch with your gut instincts. Manufacturing Knowledge invites you to let your inner child back to the cutting board and sniff some glue through the art of collaging.

A long-standing traditional medium, collage art has been utilized extensively in movements that challenge norms and voice reactions against states of the world, from the Dadaism movements of 1914, Black Arts Movement in 1965, or the Gay Liberation movements in the 1970s. It often goes hand in hand with DIY art practices, with easily obtainable materials and accessible distribution, anyone can make a zine or poster and spread them to the masses. This workshop wishes to honour collage as a form to archive memories, counter popular assumptions, and platform the participants’ own understanding of the world.

This workshop will share basic graphic design principles that participants can reference to turn shapes, letters, textures, patterns into stories, messages, propaganda or any narratives that they would like to shed light on and reflect on. With inexpensive materials and tools found anywhere stationary can be found, participants can create their own posters on selected topics and simply, just have fun with papers and crafting!

This workshop will provide all necessary materials* and is beginner-friendly, open to all levels of experience in crafting. Optional, but participants are welcome to and encouraged to bring any materials from home, like paper scraps, stickers, colored tape, washi tape, cardstock or thin cardboard.

This workshop is produced with the support of the City of Toronto through the Toronto Arts Council.

Location:

Lychuu Baldwin, 41 Baldwin St, Toronto, ON M5T 1L1

Provided materials include: 

Paper, cardstock paper, thin cardboard, glue, small transparent tape/two-sided tape, magazines for collaging, scissors, x-acto knives, cutting mat.

The workshop will be open to approximately 12-15 participants.

If you need any accessibility accommodations for the event, please reach out, and we will try our best to accommodate you.

More about:

AACT: https://instagram.com/aact.community

Danni: https://www.instagram.com/professionaldanner/