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Three TYPO San Francisco Talks Online
I have something to whet your appetite for next week’s TYPO Berlin “Sustain”. Three of the four presentations that were livestreamed during TYPO San Francisco “Connect” can now be viewed in their entirety on The TYPO Video Portal. Enjoy your weekend viewing.
Read moreLast Tickets For TYPO Berlin “Sustain”
From Berlin to London to San Francisco and to Berlin again – after visits to the UK and USA the mother of all European design conferences returns to the Haus der Kulturen der Welt in its native city next week for its 17th edition. This year’s theme for TYPO Berlin will be “Sustain”. For decades, [...]
Read moreFirst TYPO SF Resounding Success
After London in October last year, San Francisco was the second “foreign” city to host the TYPO conference (rebranded last year as TYPO Talks) outside Berlin. In the same way that London was a logical choice – it was the location of the original FUSE conference in 1994 which was the precursor of the TYPO conferences – [...]
Read moreDalton Maag’s Nokia Pure Font Wins Graphics Award
Last night Dalton Maag’s type family Nokia Pure won the Graphics category of one of the most prestigious awards in design, the Design Museum Designs of the Year 2012. These ‘Oscars of the design world’ showcase the most innovative and progressive designs from around the world, spanning seven categories: Architecture, Digital, Fashion, Furniture, Graphics, Product [...]
Read moreTYPO SF Starts Today
In less than an hour the registration desks at the Novellus Theater of the Yerba Buena Center for The Arts open for TYPO SF. There are still a very limited amount of tickets available for walk-ups. If you want to catch swissmiss’ Tina Roth Eisenberg at 10PM don’t procrastinate. If however you can’t make it [...]
Read moreStart Of TYPO SF Week
It’s Monday, and the excitement surrounding TYPO SF is steadily building. The international crew is already on site, preparing at the YBCA for the conference this Thursday and Friday. Conference tickets have outsold the expectations of the organisers. There are still limited pre-registration tickets available, but TYPO cannot guarantee walk-up registrations anymore. If you would [...]
Read moreRobothon 2012 Video Recap
The Robothon organisation have made the integral line-up of presentations available on Vimeo.
Read moreTrajan in Movie Posters at SXSW in half an hour
A semi-serious investigation about the most popular typeface in movie poster history.
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