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Very short interview with Gerard Unger
Over at Thomas Kunz’s blog, ABCdarium, is an interview with Gerard Unger. Thomas regularly interviews typeface designers for his site, and the post are always interesting. He even interviewed me several months ago. But to date, I think that the interview with Gerard is probably the shortest of all Thomas’s interviews. In fact, it may…
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Big in Japan
Over at the ShoType English-language blog is an article about an MATD alumna’s visit to Japan. Nice little summary of non-Latin typeface design at Reading, from an outsider’s point of view.
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Two best-of-2009 font charts
Ivo Gabrowitsch and Christoph Koeberlin, both of FSI FontShop International in Berlin, simultaneously published “best fonts of 2009” lists on their respective blogs this morning. The text on both sites is in German, but type samples are for everyone! Each list is fabulous in its own right, but since I read Ivo’s list first, he…
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My year in type—2009
Now that 2010 has begun, I can’t help but reminisce about the past 12 months. 2009 was good, personally and professionally … but can I measure it somehow? Was 2009 awesome, or am I just trying to convince myself of something? How does it all stack up to 2008? Bedrooms and traveling 2008: Nine months…
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Happiness update
A year ago, on October 17, 2009, I posted my personal recipe for happiness. On Saturday, I am finally moving to Berlin. So how is my post-MATD Reading master plan coming along? DB Mobility BahnCard 100 iPhone 3G 8GB Move to Berlin Get a dog Achieve personal bliss What a difference a year makes! I’m…
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Germany’s FH Wiesbaden gets new name
Back in 2001–2002, while I was finishing up my BFA at RISD, I spent a semester abroad at the Fachhochschule Wiesbaden, a large-ish University of Applied Sciences in Wiesbaden, Germany. The German-language blog Design Tagebuch (design diary) reports that this university has gotten a new name: the institution is now going to be know as…
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Malabar claims German Design Prize Gold
This year’s German Design Prize jury has selected my Malabar typeface as one of ten works from across the nation to received the coveted design prize of the Federal Republic of Germany in gold. In June, the German Federal Ministry of Economic and Technology nominated my Malabar typeface for the 2010 German Design Prize. The…
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Mota Italic launches!
Rob and Sonja Keller like to do things differently. For years, Rob Keller’s personal blog, youshouldliketypetoo, has followed the beat of its own drummer. The layout, color scheme, and navigation system do not look like those of a standard weblog, whether one thinks of the online typorati landscape or not. The Kellers’ first joint publication,…
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Searching for new Berlin apartment
For almost a year, I’ve been living in Berlin a little more than half-time, spending the rest of the week commuting around Offenbach, Darmstadt, and Bad Homburg. In November, I’ll finally be moving to Berlin for good. Anke and I are looking for a new apartment. Our current one, right behind the Bergmannstraße in Kreuzberg,…
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TT on RBtL
The boys behind the up-and-coming type/design podcast Read Between the Leading interview TypeTogether in their newest recording (epsiode 21). TypeTogether is run by Vik Burian and José Scaglione, two of the Reading MA type design course’s most articulate graduates. In fact, as they mention in the interview, TypeTogether has become something of a Reading-foundry, distributing…
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Typejockeys launch great new website
I know that you should never be jealous of your friends, but since I discovered the relaunched Typejockeys website yesterday, I haven’t been able to scoop my jaw up from the ground. I’ll be the first to admit that, for the past few years, I’ve viewed Austria with some degree of skepticism; Vienna, particularly, was…
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Malabar nominated for German Design Prize
The German Federal Ministry of Economics and Technology has nominated my Malabar typeface for the 2010 German Design Prize. The design prize of the Federal Republic of Germany is the country’s highest distinction in the field of design. No other design award sets such strict criteria on entries. A company can only enter the competition…
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Five years of the Typostammtisch
One month after TYPO-Berlin 2004, several HfG Offenbach students and alumni met for a Typostammtisch, to keep the momentum going. This peculiar institution has continued to meet more or less every months since; we celebrated a fifth-year anniversary last night. Although most of the designers from the founding instance have moved on to other things,…
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Typotheque releases Nara
Back in 2004, the annual ATypI conference was hosted in Prague. The local Museum of Decorative Arts was hosting a show at the same time: E-A-T, a selection of contemporary Czech and Slovak type design. Several tremendous designs caught my eye, and I wrote up a review of the exhibition for Typotheque. I always remembered…
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