What if you could work under the trees rather than florescent lights? Come escape to Camp Make Effect for learning, relaxation, creativity and camaraderie. By day get messy making and trying out new processes and by night get silly around the campfire. The lines need not be straight, and the ink will look better blotchy as you discover new ways to face design challenges.

Make Effect is an intimate three and a half day workshop where professionals from all creative disciplines come together to collaborate, learn and create new work and ideas in the woods of Northern Michigan. Participants are challenged to explore their individual creativity and critical-thinking skills while exploring a range of techniques and media.

Through play and process we find the magically unexpected. Many hands-on techniques are taught and experimented with: silkscreen, letterpress, gelatin prints, relief printing, lettering, book-binding, papermaking, cyanotypes, transfers, stenciling, etc. We explore typography, design, and form making as kinds of drawing, photography, sculpture, and installation. We investigate what it means to investigate, to experiment, to try things where the outcomes are uncertain.

Traditional camp activities such as: capture the flag, canoe decorating, sand castles, erecting a native American Teepee, star gazing, swimming, boating, hiking, biking, kayaking, fishing, ghost stories around the campfire and the awarding of badges will all be part of the fun. Evenings we will gather for dinner and discussion while poking at the campfire or flying kites on the shore of Lake Michigan.

For more info check out >>> Design Bureau article and video by Liz Gilmore