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This year, I’ve had the privilege to work on several “font features” that appear on the Linotype website. Here are some of my favorites: Meet Morris Fuller Benton The Diversity of the Slab Serif Just what makes a “Garamond” a Garamond? Award-winning annual reports use the Compatil Type System (also here) The Linotype Office Alliance

I’ver written about Stefanie Schönbach and her typeface Xania here on TypeOff. before. Stefanie designed Xania as part of her Diplomarbeit at the FH-Mainz this spring, and she presented her work in several stages at various Typostammtisch over the past year. Now the website of her “fictional” type label, Typomanie.de, has gotten a full update!…

Re-watching older episodes of the seminal British sci-fi serial Doctor Who, I was amazed by the creative typographic animation added to the end of the opening credits in “The Tenth Planet” serial. Only used for these four episodes, they represent an interesting experiment in British television design. Early Doctor Who adventures had tried special titles…

The angel on the left: is it opening Christ’s tomb on Easter Sunday, rejoicing that there is no body inside? Or is she opening the tomb of the family members in this plot, signifying the coming of the resurrection, eternal life, etc.? I didn’t climb over the railing of this Gesamtkunstwerk located at a Protestant…

So, today being the 18th of July, I have 75 days left before I leave for the UK. I haven’t figured out how many of these days will be work days yet, but it should be a far lower number. Also, this number is really reflecting when I intend to move to England… I should be…

In 2001, I had the privilege to work at Dynamic Diagrams, an information design studio in Providence, Rhode Island. d/D was co-founded by Krzysztof Lenk, who I believe is still a professor at the Rhode Island School of Design, despite his august age. Several of the staff at Dynamic Diagrams that I knew six years…

Peter and Tanja from Typosition, spatium magazine, et al are organizing a brilliant exhibition of typeface specimen materials at the German National Library in Frankfurt, together with the Stiftung Buchkunst. Later in the year, the exhibition will travel to the National Library in Leipzig (Germany seems to have two national libraries). Here is the low-down…

I’ve seen the Helvetica film twice, and now I’ve got the music from the introduction stuck in my head. Release the soundtrack, Gary! Please?

Some of you may remember that the doorbell and mailbox signs at my old apartment in Wiesbaden were set in Akira Kobayashi’s Conrad. Linotype.com has just released Akira’s newest typeface, Cosmiqua. From Linotype.com: Cosmiqua™ is a lively serif family from Linotype’s Type Director, Akira Kobayashi. Inspired by advertising design from the 1950s, Kobayashi began to…

Anbei eine Ankündigung für den Helvetica film in Mainz von Boris Markic. Hi Dan, wir, die Fachschaft Design der FH Mainz, werden am Mittwoch, 23. Mai um 20:30 Uhr im KUZ Mainz ein weiteres deutsches Helvetica Film Screening veranstalten. Der Regisseur Gary Hustwit wird ebenfalls anwesend sein, um nach dem Film den Besuchern Rede und…

Hallo, nächste Woche beginnt die Diplomausstellung Design und Medien-Design der Fachhochschule Mainz im Foyer des SWR. Die Eröffnung ist am Mittwoch, 16. Mai, um 19 Uhr.Dazu möchte ich Euch herzlich einladen. SWR »Haus am Tor«, Am Fort Gonsenheim 134. vom Hauptbahnhof Mainz 6 min mit der Buslinie 65 (Richtung Hartenberg); Haltestelle »Am Fort Gonsenheim« Stefanie…

Typografie macht Spaß – das zeigen die T-Shirts aus der neuen Kollektion von spatium, die mit einem Augenzwinkern altes Fachvokabular aus der Bleisatzzeit darstellen. Kollektion Schriftgewicht »Schmalmager« und »breitfett« sind als Begriffe viel anschaulicher als Thin condensed oder Black extended und auch in der entsprechenden Schrift gesetzt (Fedra Sans Display Hairline Compressed bzw. Black). Siebdruck…

Last call for entries to a greek typeface design contest-exhibition New extended deadline: 31st of May. In order to capture current trends in the design of greek alphabets, the 3rd International Conference on Typography and Visual Communication and backpacker invite greek and foreign type designers to participate in a typographic exhibition, where the “greek alphabet”…