Category: Events

I don’t particularly have very much to say about this month’s Typostammtisch, other than that it was enjoyable—as is normally the case—while seemingly serene; it will be my last one, at least for a while. The back story After the 2004 TYPO Berlin, Till, David, and I organized the Offenbach Typostammtisch. This may not have…

Der nächste Typostammtisch findet am Dienstag, den 25. September 2007 statt. Um 20 Uhr geht es los. Nach dem schönen August-Typostammtisch bei TYPOSITION. werden wir uns jetzt wieder wie gewöhnt in Försters treffen. Försters findet sich in der Goethestraße 59 (Ecke Ludwigstr., Offenbach am Main). Wer mit der S-Bahn kommt steigt an der Haltestelle Ledermuseum…

Last night, we had our monthly Typostammtisch in a different location. TYPOSITION. now has a new space, and hosted the event in their “conference room.” Throughout the evening, 13 designers were in attendence, and regarding how late into the evening we stayed in the office, a good time must have been had. This was my…

Der nächste Typostamtisch findet am Dienstag, den 21. August 2007 statt. Wir haben dieses Mal ein neues zu Hause, nämlich das neue Büro von TYPOSITION. (Hierzu kann man mehr über ihr neues Büro lesen.) Um 20 Uhr geht es los, in der Kaiserstr. 9 (63067 Offenbach). Wer mit der S-Bahn kommt kann entweder bei der…

Der nächste Typostamtisch findet am Dienstag, den 31. Juli 2007 statt. Um 20 Uhr geht es los: Försters in Offenbach (in der Goethestraße 59). Wer mit der S-Bahn kommt steigt an der Haltestelle Ledermuseum aus. Eingeladen sind alle Typografie-Interessierten zum Austauschen von Erfahrungen und Neuigkeiten. Währends des Abends werden Peter Reihardt und Tanja Hückenbeck neue…

For the past five days, I’ve been in Thessaloniki for the 3rd International Conference on Typography and Visual Communication at the University of Macedonia. This has been a fun event; however, the heat makes everything taking place outside of the air conditioned lecture halls or hotel rooms a swealtering undertaking. Still, I’ll miss Greece once…

Der nächste Typostamtisch findet am Dienstag, den 26. Juni 2007 statt. Um 20 Uhr geht es los: Försters in Offenbach (in der Goethestraße 59). Wer mit der S-Bahn kommt steigt an der Haltestelle Ledermuseum aus. Es wird mit Sicherheit dieses Mal viel zu sehen geben, u.a. die Tage der Typografie, die ICTVC in Thessaloniki und…

From Thursday to Sunday, I was in Lage-Hörste, Germany? Do you know where Lage-Hörste is? I must admit that even though I had been there before, when I stepped into my train at the Offenbach central train station on Thursady morning, I still had only the vaguest of ideas of where I was going. Lage-Hörste,…

TYPO Berlin 2007 is over. Time to start looking forward to Typo Berlin 2008, as well as the upcoming Tage der Typografie conference, the ICTVC in Thessaloniki, TypeCon in Seattle, and the ATypI conference in Brighton! The FontBlog has put together the definitive list—do not even attempt to top it—of blogosphere coverage of the conference.…

…and today they talked about magazines. First came what they call “the new minimalism.” What is that about? Well, how does one make a new, independent-looking style magazine, for instance? Simple. Reduced layout, lots of white space, a grid, fancy page numbers, and text in Helvetica or a classic serif face. Plus sort-of everyday photography…

Stephen Coles, Stephen Coles, Stephen Coles. He is the father of internet type discussion. Or at least its uncle. For years, Typographica was the center of the font lover’s universe. Typophile seems to have taken over the entire English-speaking world, but even there, he has been ever-present. Yves Peters run the Type ID board at…

Almost 11am on Saturday, the last day of this year’s TYPO Berlin conference. Tonight, the Helvetica film finally comes to Berlin—or any other part of Germany I happen to be in, for that matter. A lot happened yesterday that I’ve only just been able to get online pictures for. So this is really a continuation…

Henning Krause’s work is so awesome. Nobody knows that I look at Henning’s work every day and feel happy and jealous at the same time. In fact, Henning’s custom signage type for Deutsche Bahn is the first face that I ever saw in the environment and somehow knew that it wasn’t an off-the-shelf font. Probably…

Around 10am, Anke and I arrived at the bcc on Alexanderplatz for TYPO Berlin 2007. The conference’s first day fell on Ascension Thursday, a holiday in Germany. Anke did not have to work, so she came to the conference center to see what there was to see. After I checked in, I experienced one of…