Tape Art | Workshop

Tape typography with tapetypo

From sketchbook to foyer. Explore lettering and washi tape with Austrian tape artist Valentin Alfery. In this hands-on workshop you dive into the fundamentals of typography, using washi tape as your medium. Starting in your sketchbook, you explore and stylize the basic parameters of letterforms, build whole alphabets, and create lettering compositions that gradually expand across the walls of Parktheater’s foyer. No prior experience needed. The tape guides you.

What you’ll do:

• Work with washi tape as a creative and typographic material
• Explore the basic parameters of letterforms and lettering
• Design and build your own alphabet
• Scale your work from sketchbook to architectural space

Join the workshop

Want to register? Head over to the NewDance app and create a free account. Find all programmes under the festival Urban Dansdagen, click on the festival and pick the programme you want to join. Fill in your details and you’re all set! At the festival, simply check in at the venue and join the fun. Just so you know: on top of your registration, you’ll need a day or weekend ticket. So make sure you’ve got one sorted.

About Tapetypo

Tapetypo is the alias of Valentin Alfery, an Austrian tape artist whose work sits at the intersection of typography and pixel-based aesthetics. His lettering is rooted in graffiti and shaped by the material itself. The edges, tension, and limitations of adhesive tape define how his letters look and feel, ranging from clearly readable to coded and cryptic.

His fascination with pixel characters stems from the visual worlds of the computer games he grew up with. The result is work that feels fresh and wild: bold visual statements built from something as ordinary and functional as tape.

Since summer 2025, tapetypo has been creating tape works across Austria, the Netherlands, Hungary and Switzerland. During Urban Dans Dagen he will be taping live in the foyer of Parktheater Eindhoven, both as a standalone exhibition and in this workshop.