TYPO Berlin
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 moreMota Italic Gallery Celebrates First Anniversary With Pre-TYPO Berlin Party
Last year after landing in Berlin Schönefeld the Wednesday evening before TYPO Berlin “Shift” I immediately made my way to the Schliemannstraße 34 in Prenzlauer Berg for the opening of the Mota Italic Gallery. The gallery exists to showcase type, letters, and typography in both art and design, and is owned and operated by type [...]
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 moreLast Hours Of Early Bird Discount For TYPO London 2011 “Places”
TYPO posted a video that summarises the international spirit of the conference in seven minutes.
Read moreRelive TYPO Berlin 2011 “Shift” With Evalottchen’s Sketchnotes
Eva-Lotta Lamm a.k.a. evalottchen made personable and very entertaining sketchnotes on some of the key presentations at TYPO Berlin 2011 “Shift”.
Read moreRelive TYPO Berlin 2011 “Shift” With FontShopTV
Podcasts with Oliver Reichenstein, Donald Beekman & Donald Roos, Tim Fendley, and Michael Johnson, from FontShopTV.
Read moreTrajan In Movie Posters Rescheduled To 4PM
A semi-serious investigation about the most popular typeface in movie poster history, touching upon type selection and typography trends in film posters.
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