Article archives
2011
December
- Like a Nomad in Search of a Home
My living and traveling experience: I get to know many places and people, and learn about countries, customs and languages.
- Like a Nomad in Search of a Home
October
- Eye-catching observations in Halifax and NS, Canada
Portraying the city of Halifax, NS, Canada.
- Eye-catching observations in Halifax and NS, Canada
September
- Montreal book designer Glenn Goluska in his studio
Last visit at Glenn Goluska's typographic studio in Montreal.
- Portrait of a Montreal hand-lettering artist and his passion
'Preserving the hand' is an article about a Montreal hand-lettering artist.
- Montreal book designer Glenn Goluska in his studio
March
- La calligraphie, fondement de la typographie
Pourquoi un graphiste devrait étudier et connaître la calligraphie.
- La calligraphie, fondement de la typographie
February
- Oriental and Western bookbinding Workshop
Bookbinding workshop introducing Oriental and Western bookbinding techniques using the thread.
- Oriental and Western bookbinding Workshop
2010
August
- Monotype Plantin - A digital Revival
The revival project Monotype Plantin features the historical context and the new digital adaption of the typeface.
- Monotype Plantin - A digital Revival
2009
September
- Biennale di Venezia 2009
A personal view on the Biennale di Venezia contemporary art exhibition.
- Biennale di Venezia 2009
July
- Calligraphy workshop with Denise Lach in Perce
Written Textures was the theme of the calligraphy course.
- Calligraphy workshop with Denise Lach in Perce
June
- Visual arts and poets at Maison de la culture du Plateau Mont-Royal
Visual artists collaborate with poets.
- Calligraphy exhibit at Galerie Mile-end in Montreal
Montreal calligraphy group 'Calmars' exhibits their work.
- Visual arts and poets at Maison de la culture du Plateau Mont-Royal
May
- Montreal Biennale 2009
Bienual art exhibition in Montreal with the 'open culture' theme.
- Montreal Biennale 2009
April
- Exhibition Actions: What You Can Do With the City
Exhibition featuring city interventions at the Canadien Centre for Architecture.
- Calligraphy workshop by Yves Leterme in Montreal
Calligrapher Yves Leterme teaches gestural writing.
- Manon de Pauw's life Performance at Uqam gallery Montreal
Manon de Pauw, Nancy Tobin and Daniele Desnoyers perform at Uqam Gallery.
- Brazilian artist Paolo C. Penna at Graff
Paolo C. Penna is presenting his work at Gallery Graff, Montreal.
- Exhibition Actions: What You Can Do With the City
March
- New York trip in March 2009
Experiencing culture, art, noise and more in New York City.
- Flourishing workshop with Luc Saucier
Calligraphy class with Montreal based Calligrapher Luc Saucier.
- New York trip in March 2009
January
- Munich culture in january 2009
Events and exhibitions in Munich during the month of January.
- Warhol Exhibition in Montreal
The Andy Warhol exhibition was displayed at the Museum of Fine Arts in Montreal.
- Munich culture in january 2009
2008
December
- Relaunch of brigitteschuster.com 2008
Relaunch of brigitteschuster.com 2008 with a new Web design.
- Relaunch of brigitteschuster.com 2008
November
- Expozine Montreal independent book fair
Annual book fair of fanzines, comics and small presses with over 250 participants in Montreal.
- Ruling pen expert Thomas Hoyer in Montreal
Calligrapher Thomas Hoyer is presenting in Montreal.
- Bonny Baxter at Gallery Graff
Artist talk by multidisciplinary artist Bonnie Baxter at Gallery and Printing studio Graff.
- Photolithography Workshop with Carlos Calado at Graff
Introduction to photolithography at Graff, Montreal, by art printing expert Carlos Calado.
- Expozine Montreal independent book fair
October
- Elmyna Bouchard at Gallery Graff
Artist talk by etching artist Elmyna Bouchard at Gallery and Printing studio Graff.
- Georges Schwizgebel Retrospective
Schwizgebel's animations at Cinematheque quebecoise in Montreal.
- Tutorial to create a panorama
Tuturial to stich photos, which are taken with a digital camera, manually in photoshop.
- Elmyna Bouchard at Gallery Graff
September
- Photo exhibition at Centre de design UQAM
Photography and installations at Centre de Design UQAM, Montreal.
- Signals in the dark: Art in the Shadow of War
A photography and video exhibition about art in/about war to see in Montreal.
- Quebec Triennal of contemporary art
Quebec Triennal of contemporary art in Montreal featuring painting, sculpture, video, photography and installation.
- Photo exhibition at Centre de design UQAM
August
- Los Angeles, U.S. Siggraph 2008
Conference for Computer Graphics and Interactive Techniques in Los Angeles.
- Los Angeles, U.S. Siggraph 2008
July
- TypeCon2008: Punkt
Typography conference in North America.
- Sophie Calle in Montreal
French artist Sophie Calle gives artist talk at SAT.
- Jazz Fest Montreal, Canada
International Jazz festival 2008 in Montreal.
- TypeCon2008: Punkt
June
- The black market type print shop at articule
Exhibition featuring typefaces used by artists at articule, Montreal.
- Rockness 2008
Music festival in Rockness 2008 in Inverness, Scotland featuring electronic music from the uk.
- Photography at Tate Modern 2008
Street and studio photography exhibition at Tate modern, London.
- Typo Berlin 2008
International Design Conference held in Berlin.
- Berliner Sammlung Kalligraphie in Berlin 2008
calligraphic collection of Akademie der Kuenste, Berlin
- National Museums Berlin 2008
Graphic design, drawings and paintings is shown at National Museums in Berlin.
- Photography at Hamburger Bahnhof 2008 in Berlin
Contemporaty German photography at Hamburger Bahnhof in Berlin.
- Brasil en cena from Brazil
Performances in Berlin with artists from Brasil
- Photography at Martin-Gropius-Bau 2008
Young photography talents show their work in Berlin.
- Tage der Typographie 2008
Typography workshops in Germany during the 10th eition of days of typography 2008.
- The black market type print shop at articule
April
- Colin Low presents some of his movies
Colin Low talks about his 50 years film career and presents his movies at Concordia University, Montreal.
- Continued Letterpress Workshop with Martin Dufour
Details from the Continued Letterpress Workshop with Martin Dufour with documentation of single steps in the printing process.
- Dr. David Suzuki at Concordia University Montreal
Dr. David Suzuki encourages students to take action in environmental issues.
- Colin Low presents some of his movies
March
- Bill Buxton lecture at SAT and at UdM in Montreal
Bill Buxton talks about the 'The Design Eco-System'.
- Exposition of Geoffrey Farmer, Yannick Pouliot and Arnaud Maggs
Geoffrey Farmer, Yannick Pouliot and Arnaud Maggs at Montreal's Museum of contemporary art.
- Installation and Performance Festival at Usine-C entitled 'Temps d'images'
Jan Fabre presents 'L'ange de la Mort' and Kubilai Khan Investigations and Et Ludica the piece Koko Doko.
- Exhibit entitled 'Reenactments' at DHC/Art Foundation
Contemporary art exposition at Dhc Art Foundation
- Bill Buxton lecture at SAT and at UdM in Montreal
February
- Martin Dufour is teaching handset typography and letterpress printing
Learning of handset typography and letterpress printing at Atelier Circulaire.
- Belgian choreographer De Keersmaeker and Tale Dolven perform at Usine-C
FASE, a contemporary dancing show coreographed by keersmaeker at Usine-C.
- Martin Dufour is teaching handset typography and letterpress printing
January
- Theo Jansen and his large-scale kinetic sculptures
Concordia University's facutly of Fine Arts presents sculptur Theo Jansen.
- WJT Mitchell at Concordia University
WJT Mitchell lecturing on 'Cloning Terror: The War of Images, 9-11 to Abu Ghraib'.
- Theo Jansen and his large-scale kinetic sculptures
2007
December
- Munich activities around art
Museums and exhibitions in Munich, Germany, around December 2007.
- Muniz at Museum of Contemporary Art in Montreal
Montreal's Museum of contemporary art features an exhibition about Brazilian artist Vik Muniz, Thomas Hirschhorn and Sound.
- Montreal conference about design tendencies
Conference about design tendencies with Stefan Sagmeister and Scott Burnham.
- Munich activities around art
November
- Black Gold movie by by Marc and Nick Francis
The movie Black Gold by Marc and Nick Francis was screened at cinemapolitica Montreal.
- Multi-layer meaning in art and design projects
Use of personal symbolical language to create meaning in art/design projects demonstrated on the example of Matthew Barney's work.
- Othello at Usine-c
William Shakespeare's Othello at usine-c with screenplay by Denis Marleau.
- John Pilger in Montreal for the screening of 'War on Democracy'
John Pilger came to the 'Rencontres Internationales du documentaire de Montreal' to present his new documentary.
- Lecture about Charles and Ray Eames and Interaction Scenarios
Retrospective videos by the American designers, architect and filmmakers Charles and Ray Eames.
- Class about Bruce Sterling's Talk at Siggraph 2004
Bruce Sterling gave a talk at the 31st International Conference on Computer Graphics and Interactive Techniques.
- Interactivity projects with data visualization
Three projects related to real-time, installation, interaction, experimental typography, Internet, social networking, network
- Black Gold movie by by Marc and Nick Francis
October
- Artist Kurt Hentschlaeger presents performance FEED
An intense sound and visual performance, which is experienced by all senses.
- Dalai Lama speaks about Global Citizenship
Some keywords mentionned in Dalai Lamas speech are non-violence, compassion, trust and avoiding of anger.
- Typography lectures in Montreal
Denis Dulude, David Cabianca, Peter Gabor, Ted Harrison lecture about web typography.
- Events at Montreal's event 'Mois de la Photo'
Photography exhibitions in Montreal during 6 weeks in autumn.
- Lecture by Martin Racine about sustainable product design
Martin Racine is talking about reassembling old and broken objects to new design products.
- Ulrich Seidl's movie Import Export in Montreal
At Festival du Nouveau Cinema in Montreal the movie Import/Export is screened
- Sound design in live performance presentation followed by a student work presentation.
A lecture about live performance and an interaction exercise.
- Montreal with its high restaurant concentration offers many favorite restaurants
Favorite Food Montreal is indicating favorite restaurants, coffee places, snack-food places, and more.
- Language, Politics, Manifestos - Theory and Praxis during fieldtrips to the Montreal design and art scene.
Language, Politics, Manifestos - a theory class with the not missing practical part with Inspiration from the Internet, Montreal's contemporary art/design events, lectures and more
- A lecture with a talk about Food culture and material culture by a Montreal researcher and new brainstorm techniques
Food culture and material culture followed by a structured brainstorm exercise
- Brainstorming about Interactivity and Design with collective group participation
Theories of interactivity class with interactivity brainstorming
- Artist Kurt Hentschlaeger presents performance FEED
September
- Back to etching after a long break
Back to etching after a three year's break.
- Back to etching after a long break
August
- Bruce Nauman in Montreal
Bruce Nauman's retrospective in Montreal.
- Emily Carr in Montreal
Emily Carr's retrospective at Montreal's museum of fine arts.
- Bruce Nauman in Montreal
July
- Vieux Farka Toure performes in Montreal
Vieux Farka Toure performes in Montreal during the ionternational Festival 'Nuits d'Afrique'.
- Camping at Gatineau Park
Camping at Gatineau Park in Quebec's East.
- Dj Dolores at Montreal Jazz Festival 2007
Dj Dolores performed with the group Aparelhagem at Montreal's Jazz Festival 2007
- Kieran Hebden and Steve Reid at Montreal Jazz Festival 2007
Kieran Hebden and Steve Reid at Montreal Jazz Festival 2007
- Anouar Brahem at Montreal Jazz Festival 2007
Anouar Brahem performs the album 'Voyage de Sahar' at Montreal's Jazz Festival 2007
- Vieux Farka Toure performes in Montreal
June
- 120 Business Cards for the Recycling Bin
120 Business Cards for the Recycling Bin. A Montreal printing business asserts on its rights and scares off customers.
- The Swedish jazz quintet Yun Kan 5 in Montreal
The Swedish jazz quintet Yun Kan 5 in Montreal during the Jazzfestival Montreal 2007.
- Pindemonium 03 event in Montreal
Pindemonium 03 event 2007 at articule in Montreal.
- Felix Kubin Concert in Montreal
Felix Kubin performes at Sala Rosa in Montreal.
- Pecha-Kucha Night in Montreal
Pecha-Kucha Night 2007 took place at SAT in Montreal on June 15, 2007.
- 120 Business Cards for the Recycling Bin
May
- Concept development in Marketing and Advertising
Concept development in Marketing and Advertising revealing the advertising concept, strategies to catch attention/interest and examples of formal techniques of visualization.
- RoCoCoCamp in Montreal
RoCoCo, the RecentChangesCamp Montreal, was held from May 18th to May 20, 2007, at SAT.
- Screening of the movie Helvetica
Screening of the movie Helvetica in Montreal, a movie by Gary Hustwit.
- Concept development in Marketing and Advertising
February
- Goethe at Usine C
Goethe's Werther was presented at Usine C. Classic German literature was shown in a contemporary way.
- Je Ne at Usine C
'Je ne, laboratoire d'un teatre poetique', a real time video and sound installation was presented at at Usine C.
- Montreal - UNESCO City of Design
Conference held by Marie-Josee Lacroix entitled 'Montreal, UNESCO city of Design: A dream or a reality for the future?' on February 19th, 2007.
- Goethe at Usine C
January
- Chocolate Fish Desktop-Wallpaper Design
Chocolate Fish Desktop Wallpaper design for download for Pc and Mac containing fish illustrations, designed by Brigitte Schuster.
- UNESCO Design Cities
The Cities of Design Buenos Aires, Berlin and Montreal are members of the 'The UNESCO Global Alliance's Creative Cities Network'. Factors such as talent, tolerance, diversity and technology play an important role in becoming a Design City.
- Relaunch of brigitteschuster.com
Relaunch of brigitteschuster.com, my design and art portfolio. Coding by Sarven Capadisli, design by me.
- Montreal Events - November and December 2006
Cultural Events in Montreal such as movies, theater, trade fairs, art in November and December 2006.
- Cultural Life during my Paris trip
Cultural Life in Paris during my trip in November 2006, including photography and art exhibitions, and restaurants.
- Chocolate Fish Desktop-Wallpaper Design
2006
November
- My Locations Montreal Places photography project in a Parisian gallery
"Locations. Special Montreal Places" by Brigitte Schuster will be shown in Paris during the photography festival 'Mois de la Photo-OFF' in November 2006.
- My Locations Montreal Places photography project in a Parisian gallery
October
- Ming Liangs new movie I dont want to sleep alone
The Malaysian-born Taiwanese director Ming Liang's movie "I don't want to sleep alone" at the Festival Nouveau Cinema on October 28th, 2006.
- Paul Kunigis and Jeszcze Raz at Club Soda
Paul Kunigis, a Montreal based pianist, singer and songwriter, performed at Club Soda in Montreal.
- Atom Egoyan personnaly presents his experimental movie Citadel
During the 35th Festival Nouveau Cinema in Montreal Atom Egoyan presents his movie Citadel with Arsinee Khanjian in the main role.
- DJ Shadow back in Montreal after 9 years
DJ Shadow played at Metropolis in Montreal on October 13th, 2006. He showed his music in solo performance, but also in cooperation with two singers.
- Photographies of Darren Ell at Dazibao
Dazibao inaugurated on Thursday October 12th, 2006 the show 'Between States' by Darren Ell who documents foreign individuals in Canada.
- Massive Attack concert at Metropolis
Massive Attack played at Metropolis on October 9th, 2006. The show was accompanied by a visual presentation on stage.
- Interfaces Montreal at SAT
Interface[s] Montreal is an event, which assembles the latest innovations in the field of digital interfaces, where experts and creators gather.
- Chantal Akerman at Cinematheque Quebecoise
Chantal Akerman gives a retrospective at Montreal's Cinematheque Quebecoise. I saw 'Saute ma ville' (1968) and her most recent movie 'Là-bas'.
- Usine C project Roy
The contemporary dance project Roy was shown on September 27th, 2006 at Usine C in Montreal.
- Ming Liangs new movie I dont want to sleep alone
July
- Second Hand Fashion
This article is part of the project Montreal Experiences and Lifestyle. It is about Second hand fashion and why it is such a popular trend.
- Soccer everywhere during the World Cup
I was shooting shop windows in Munich during the World Cup 2006. The soccer ball is always present, often in form of products.
- Cook solo or hit the restaurant
This article is part of the project Montreal Experiences and Lifestyle. I tested if it is cheaper to cook solo or to go the restaurant.
- Second Hand Fashion
May
- Montreal Experiences and Lifestyle
Montreal Experiences and Lifestyle is a research to find out more about the North American lifestyles compared to the European.
- Montreal Experiences and Lifestyle
2005
October
- Montreal Personal experiences and observations
Street Graffiti by Roadsworth in form of barrages, loudspeakers, barbed wire, tightrope, cameras, flowers directly paint on the street asphalt.
- Favela Ilha de Deus documentary
The organization Caranguejo Uca in Recife, Brasil, was supported by the sales of t-shirts and bags, which were sponsored by "casadobrasil" in Munich.
- Montreal Personal experiences and observations
