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Three TYPO Berlin “Sustain” Talks Online
TYPO Berlin “Sustain” is not over yet and already the first presentations are being made available in their entirety on the TYPO Video Portal. Yesterday the talks by Bernd Kolb (D), Daniel van der Velden (E) and Kirsten Dietz (D) were published, and today two of the very best presentations (in my opinion) were released [...]
Read moreThree 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 moreLooking For Images Of Letterpress Script Faces
I will be speaking at TYPO Berlin “Sustain” next week and am currently hard at work on my entirely new presentation From Metal Scripts to Digital Writing. I trace back the reproduction of handwriting from the earliest scripts for letterpress to feature-rich OpenType fonts with artificial intelligence that mimic the decisions made by letterers and [...]
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 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.
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