Category: Events

The word Typostammtisch is difficult to translate into English, much less settle on a proper plural (Typostammtische?). So I will continue to refer to this concept with its natural moniker. A Stammtisch is a regular meeting at a bar. At a Typostammtisch, one eschews talk of politics or of one’s favorite football club in favor…

On Thursday, March 19, 2009, I conducted a day-long logo design workshop with Franck Jalleau and Jean-Baptiste Levée at the École Estienne in Paris. This workshop was part of a numbers of events in the Linotype–École Estienne Platinum Paris 2009 series. Among many other things, the École Estienne seems to be the address to go…

Here are some quick thoughts that I had in my head on the way home from RoboThon09. I attended all of the conference proper, but unfortunately none of the many after-events that took place on Friday afternoon, evening, or on Saturday. The conference was at KABK, the Dutch Royal Academy of the Arts in The…

It is time to beat the drum. Last night, we held the February 2009 Typostammtisch in Offenbach, which we I guess we can safely call “the original Typostammtisch.” 14 of us met in the Weinstube, which is more than we have seen at our Typostammtisch in a long time. There were many new faces. Tanja…

As part of the city’s Lange Nacht der Museen (museum night), Berlin’s hoped-for Buchstaben Museum (letter museum) invited visitors to view its collection in a converted space on the ground floor of a highrise apartment building in the Leipziger Straße. Although the experience was cool, I have to admit that my visit was not as…

Word of the success of last night’s Berlin Typostammtisch is already making the rounds on Flickr and Twitter. Ivo, who is a master organizer, told me that last night’s attendance was about 40 people, which strikes me as incredibly huge for this sort of thing. Afterwards, I had the feeling that I hardly got to…

Typodarium 2009: The Typodarium brings daily typography inspiration, the first tear-off calendar with 365 different fonts—bread-and-butter types and typography gimmicks, character sets and punctuation, old masters and new wild fonts, favourite fonts from across the world on your wall. The front page, which is classic and functional, shows the date and on the reverse are…

Since I’ve only been in Berlin sporadically during the past two years, last night was only my second visit to their Typostammtisch. A semi-regular—almost bi-monthly—gathering of type heavyweights, the event is marvelously organized by FSI’s new marketing director, Ivo Gabrowitsch. The Berlin Typostammtisch is much larger affair than our similarly-named Offenbach institution, but this can…

Last night I went to the TDC Exhibition opening at the Frankfurt Book Fair. A ginormous annual shindig that has been running since at least Gutenberg’s day, the Frankfurt Book Fair is the German print design event of the year. As has often been the case in the recent past, Mainz’s Hermann Schmidt publishers sponsored…

It is time for the countdown to TYPO-Berlin 2008 to begin. Today is my last day in Berlin for about six weeks; I’ll be returning in just 43 days, on the night before FontShop’s annual conference. About half a dozen students from the University of Reading’s MATD program will be in attendance; we booked early,…