Celebrating 20 Years of FontShop With Petra Weitz
As Joan Spiekermann revealed in the first interview celebrating the twentieth anniversary of FontShop, the pioneering vendor of digital type originally was run by two people: Joan, and Petra Weitz, the Managing Director of FSI FontShop International. Since the founding of FontShop, Petra has been at the helm, forging relationships with partners and keeping the business in line. While she continues her intimate involvement in the type community, she supports “her” basketball team — which also turned 20 this year —, and grooves to the warm beats of R&B, hip hop, and soul. Petra reveals how the fledgling company grew into the global operation it is today.
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The Book Cover Archive have published their Top Ten of Covers of the ’00s, including the ten runners-up.
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ISTD Awards 2009: A Chat With The Winning FontFont Designers
The FontFeed talks to the three FontFont type designers that were awarded at the recent ISTD International TypoGraphic Awards 2009.
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Three FontFonts Win At ISTD International TypoGraphic Awards 2009
FF Mister K wins a Premier Award, and FF Netto and FF Pitu Certificates of Excellence at the ISTD International TypoGraphic Awards 2009.
Read moreFontFonts on the Web, Starting Today
Live type on the web has always been limited to a handful of system fonts. But that era is over. And FontShop is ready to deliver FontFonts for the web, starting today with Typekit.
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Read moreWebfonts Week: An Interview with Erik Spiekermann
Spiekermann embraced the fledgling world of digital type early on when he founded FontShop 20 years ago, and he’s just as forward-thinking now about licensing type in an era of Web-embeddable fonts.
Read moreWebfonts Week: An Interview with Christian Schwartz
On our fourth day of Webfonts Week I thought it wise to hear from someone who represents the future of type design. Who better than Christian Schwartz?
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