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Last year, while I was still at Reading, I was invited to participate in the Typodarium 2009 project. The calendars turned out to be a smash hit, and sold out in just a few weeks. Several of the pages through the 2009 edition feature typefaces of mine, including Martel Italic, part of the typeface that…

On this coming Wednesday, February 18, 2009, I’ll be presenting at the Academy of Visual Arts Frankfurt as part of their 5 Uhr T lecture series. The theme of my talk (in German) is a question: wieso gibt es so viele Druckschriften? (why are there so many typefaces?). My answer will try to explain to…

You know, this neat little video from 36 Point showing how to be a freelance designer, how to be a designer who works out of an office by themselves, and what they do at 36 Point is not all that different from the life of being a typeface designer.

I was lucky enough to be invited to participate in the Typodarium 2009 project. Many of its pages include images of fonts of mine. Now the Typodarium editors would like to invite you to contribute to the Typodarium 2010, a daily dose of typography in the form of a tear-off calendar—like the one our grandmas…

The Design Department of the University of Applied Science and Arts in Dortmund presents the typography symposium 33pt. Eskapade in Dortmund on April 3rd and 4th, 2009. The concept ties in with the successful 2006 symposium, 33pt. Musik, and is going to show and explore different perspectives concerning language, fonts, and typography. The event will…

Tomorrow evening (Tuesday, February 3, 2009), we are having the next Offenbach/Frankfurt/anywhere-even-near-the-Rhein-Main-area Typostammtisch. And you are invited! Have you ever wondered what the original Typostammtisch is like? Have you been before, but not found the time recently? Now is you chance to get reacquainted with the group. We’re even meeting in a new location: the…

In the spring of 2004, I started working at Linotype as an intern in the Product Marketing department. I was still at the HfG Offenbach, and worked as many hours a week as my foreign student visa allowed. After a year and a half, I broke off my studies, and joined Linotype full-time. From January…

The Karlsruhe type foundry run my the masterminds behind Slanted.de and Slanted magazine has been relaunched. Volcano Type is now dressed in new clothes, and boy do they look serious. I like the clean, new look. While I’m waiting to release my newest typeface elsewhere, I can spend my time loving how they’ve refreshed the…

Thomas Phinney, formerly of Adobe, has just launched his new blog into cyberspace. My suggestion? Bookmark it immediately. Then subscribe to its RSS-Feed. Want to know more? Go to the source!

5 Uhr T—I guess that this should be translated as 5 o’clock T, or Type at Five… In any case, it is a new lecture series taking place this January and February at the Academy of Visual Arts (AVA) in Frankfurt am Main. The topics revolve around different aspects of typography. Lectures are open to…

I get quite a rise out of any sort of letters carved into stone, but this really gets my boat floating. Go to this website, and see excellent work (the slideshow that I link to is just the tip of the iceberg).

I love the Typodarium and the idea of every day having “its own font,” like a sort of Patron Saint. A reader wrote to me yesterday saying, “hey, today is Mountain day!” (just look at the image above); and it was. There will be many more Dan Reynolds’s fonts days in 2009, thanks to this…

Over at this site, Chris Papasadero will design a “font” every day throughout the month of January. Well, not quite a “font,” since the results are just vector drawings of letters, not a working PS, TT, OT, or other such file. But no matter! Aside from the neat letters and the fun concept, the designer…