TXT Island Creates Magic With Pegboard Letters
With the posts I’ve got lined up, it looks like this week will be FontStruct Week on The FontFeed. This means the TYPO Berlin reports will take kind of a breather. Yet I will continue posting them because I still want to say a couple of things about the presentations and the conference in general. Be a little patient and I’m quite confident I’ll manage to finish them within a reasonable time frame.
Before I start with the first FontStruct related post I’d like to quickly show you something really neat. The slightly fantastic Gustavo Ferreira came over to FontShop BeNeLux last Friday for a meeting – more about him soon –, and I have been e-mailing back and forth with him over the weekend and today. The last e-mail he sent me pointed me to TXT Island, a beguiling piece of stop motion typography directed by Tandem Films’ Chris Gavin.
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TYPO Berlin 2009 Interlude – What Did Space Look Like?
In this brief interlude we look at the graphic identity of TYPO Berlin 2009 – Space.
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TYPO Berlin 2009 – Examining The Interactivity Of Space
The fourth episode in our Typo Berlin 2009 reports.
Read morePost TYPO Berlin 2009 – Making Amends With Mrs Eaves
TYPO Berlin provided the perfect opportunity to iron out an editorial slip I made on Fontblog by inviting Australian Gemma O’Brien a.k.a. Mrs Eaves of “Write here, right now” fame.
Read moreTYPO Berlin 2009 – Further Explorations In Architectural Space
The third episode in our Typo Berlin 2009 reports.
Read moreTYPO Berlin 2009 – Exploring (((Typo)Graphic) Design) Space
The second episode in our Typo Berlin 2009 reports.
Read moreNew Erik Spiekermann Typeface Axel Premieres At TYPO Berlin 2009
Just in time for the re-launch of its website, FontShop Germany releases Axel, an economical, highly legible font family optimized for on-screen use in office apps such as Microsoft Excel.
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TYPO Berlin 2009 – Space Is Over
The 14th edition of TYPO Berlin around the central theme of “Space” has closed. An introduction to the reports.
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