Category: Events
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TYPO TALK in Mainz in March
As part of their ON-TYPE exhibition, the Gutenberg-Museum in Mainz will hold a two-day lecture series entitled TYPO TALK on March 21 and 28, 2012. I’ve been invited as one of three speakers to present on the 21st. The series organizer, Marcel Häusler shared some information with today that I am pleased to translate into…
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ATypI write-up on ILT
I was very lucky at this year’s ATypI conference. All of the awesome A-list type bloggers were not in attendance. This means, unfortunately, that the typo-blogosphere is bereft of helpful insight from Stephen Coles, Florian Hardwig, Jan Middendorp, or Jürgen Siebert. Yves Peters did write an article for the FontFeed. Although he was not there…
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Mota Italic Gallery Opening
Last night, the Mota Italic Gallery opened for business. Billed as a “type foundry, gallery, and boutique,” the Mota Italic space in Berlin’s Prenzaluer Berg neighborhood represents a new chapter in the company history. Founded in October 2009 by Rob and Sonja Keller, Mota Italic is dedicated to offering complex typographic solutions to clients worldwide.…
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TYPO-Berlin 2011 coverage
Europe’s largest graphic design conference will convene for the 16th time this week. From May 19–21, over 1,500 design professionals will gather in Berlin’s impressive Haus der Kulturen der Welt congress hall for TYPO-Berlin 2011. Organized by FontShop AG – founded by Joan and Erik Spiekermann in 1989 – TYPO-Berlin is now part of a…
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ATypI 2010, Dublin (Part Three)
This is part three of a four-part recap of the 2010 ATypI conference in Dublin. Follow these links for part one, and part two. Writing my third instalment feels different from the first two; it has been almost a month since the event took place, and I have had a long vacation in the interlude.…
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ATypI 2010, Dublin (Part Two)
This is the second part in an article series of indeterminate length about the 2010 ATypI conference. Interested in reading part one? Today’s post includes a few thoughts about the PreFace and the opening night of the main conference. TypeTech vs. PreFace Many recent ATypI conferences have been preceded by a two-day series of technical…
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ATypI Dublin 2010 (Part One)
Almost a week has past since this year’s ATypI Dublin 2010 conference ended. The Association Typographique Internationale, founded in 1957, travels annually to meet in a different city. Right off the bat, I’ll state that – out of the six that I have attended – the 2010 event in Dublin was the best. Over the…
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Good News exhibition, HBKsaar
On Tuesday, July 6, Lorenz Schirmer, Atilla Korap, and I made the two-hour drive to Saarbrücken, a small city on Germany’s border with France. We formed something of a “Linotype delegation” to an exhibition opening at the Hochschule der Bildenden Künste Saar. The exhibition, entitled Good News, showed a semester’s worth of student work from…
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Mahendra Patel lecture in Mainz
On Friday, June 25, I drove to Mainz with Otmar Hoefer and Atilla Korap, two Linotype colleagues. We made the short trip from our Bad Homburg office to hear a lecture from this year’s Gutenberg Prize winner, Mahendra Patel.The 18th Gutenberg Prize recipient, Mahendra Patel is the first designer from India to receive this award.…
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First Brno TypeTalks
Do you know the old expression, “getting there is half the fun?” When it came time for me to travel to the first-ever TypeTalks symposium, getting there turned out to be half the conference. Fortunately, the seven and a half hour train ride was worth the effort, even though it fell on the heels of…
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First Cyprus type conference
The fourth International Conference on Typography and Graphic Communication took place in during the middle of June 2010, under the theme “lending grace to language.” For the first time, the ICTVC to place in Nicosia, Cyprus; previous ICTVC conferences took place in Thessaloniki, Greece, in 2002, 2004, and 2007. The reason for the change of…
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After Typo Berlin 2010
Over the weekend, about 1,500 designers came together in Berlin’s Haus der Kulturen der Welt for the 15th annual TYPO Berlin. Sold-out again this year, Europe’s largest graphic design conference was an assured hit even before doors opened on Thursday. Astoundingly, at least for me, this year was my seventh TYPO in a row. I…
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KABK and MATD discussion in Berlin
Now this is a panel discussion that you won’t want to miss: Handgloves or adhesion Reading or writing, KABK Den Haag or the University of Reading? It is often said about the two renowned typedesign masters degree programs (and their graduates) that they are rivals. There can be passionate discussions about the best method to…
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Tage der Typographie 2009, Düsseldorf
The North Rhenish Westphalian Union of Print + Media Academy is a friend of the prominent role role that typography plays in the quality of print and online media. As such, they have decided to assume the role of hosting the annual German Tage der Typografie conference. This conference previously met ten times at a…
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