In 1989 Joan and Erik Spiek­ermann founded FontShop. That same year the Berlin Wall came down. On a visit to Berlin Neville Brody – who would co-​found the FontFont library with Erik one year later – chipped away a fragment of the Wall, a moment immor­talised by Joan. FSI FontShop Inter­na­tional and its Berlin-​based type foundry FontFont […]

Two identical pictures of two maverick type designers, almost 20 years apart – Erik van Blokland and Just van Rossum then and now.

The first in a series of inter­views with people that played a key role in twenty years of FontShop.

The Thirty Conver­sa­tions On Design website collects the thoughts of 30 of the world’s most inspired creative professionals.

People who couldn’t attend were able to follow the conference online via Twitter chatter and visual impres­sions on the ATypI Mexico 2009 Flickr Pool.

On the 18th of November Dr. Peter Karow shall personally present the award to Thomas Milo at the Type[&]Design 2009 conference in The Hague.

Typodarium 2010 is the first typographic tear-​off calendar, featuring 365 type designs from 180 foundries and designers hailing from 30 countries.

More and more educators are mining the potential of FontShop’s free online modular font editor, both in the regular courses and for workshops.