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TYPO Berlin Goes East
In two days Europe’s biggest annual design conference reaches adulthood when TYPO Berlin celebrates its 18th anniversary. “Touch” opens on Thursday, May 16 at 2 PM with a keynote by the formidable Ken Garland, star of the most recent edition of TYPO London. This year TYPO has taken it upon itself to bring its audience [...]
Read moreMota Italic Gallery Unofficially Opens TYPO Berlin With Word Jazz
Celebrate the second anniversary of the Mota Italic Gallery at the per-TYPO Berlin Party and Word Jazz opening night.
Read more8 Faces Launches New Issue And New Website
Yesterday Elliot Jay Stocks launched the latest issue of his limited edition typography magazine 8 Faces, available in printed format and as a downloadable PDF. The core concept remains unchanged – if you could use just eight typefaces, which would you choose? 8 Faces asks this question – and many more – to eight leading designers from the fields of [...]
Read moreKerning, A Promising New Typography Conference In Italy
I was a little disappointed I couldn’t attend the second edition of TYPO San Francisco after speaking there last year, but that doesn’t mean I won’t have my share of conferences before summer. And it starts in just two weeks when I will be talking at Kerning, the first international conference in Italy (and by [...]
Read moreTYPO San Francisco 2013 “Contrast” Live Streams Available For Viewing
With over 700 attendees, speakers and volunteers, the second edition of TYPO San Francisco “Contrast” was again a success. If you couldn’t make the conference or are already going through withdrawal, the videos of no less than five live streams are still available for viewing by the general public. Furthermore searching the #typo13 hashtag on [...]
Read moreTYPO SF 2013 “Contrast” Presents Type Track
This year TYPO SF adds a Type Track in the intimate, 100-seat YBCA Screening Room to its schedule.
Read moreLast Days of Reduced Rate for TYPO Berlin 2013 “Touch”
You can always count on the TYPO organisers to come up with fun surprise initiatives. Their Early Bird reduced rates were supposed to end on February 28. That is, until they realised this year is an important anniversary for the Berlin design conference (which now also has sister events in London and San Francisco). Its [...]
Read moreFilm Design Awards Finalists Screening at SXSW Next Week
In his recent post on Wide Screen, the Yahoo movies blog, Will Perkins wonders where the Oscars for Best Title Sequence were at the recent ceremony. Indeed, although this area of filmmaking is already recognised at the Emmies with the Emmy Award For Outstanding Main Title Design, it still is overlooked at most other award [...]
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