Category: News

Did you know about the Typeladies blog? I didn’t! For awhile, I’d been familiar with the site and with the group. But Verena made me aware of their blog at the Berlin Typostammtisch last night. Here’s one more site to bookmark or add to your RSS-Feed list – Typeladies! I wish they’d add a space…

Everyone knows that I’m a fan of Vista. So how will Microsoft’s Windows 7 stack up against Apple’s forthcoming Snow Leopard? Find out here. Hint: only one OS is likely to ship with a pre-installed image of a snow leopard…

So you want to learn more about Arabic typeface design? Click over to audio slide presentations from this conference: An Evening of Arabic Typography. They already have three talks up, and it seems that more will be forthcoming.

On a brief visit back to the United States a week and a half ago, Otmar and I spent a day in Portland, Maine. Despite having gone to college in New England, this was my very first venture north of Boston. Melanie from the MATD course is back home, and we paid her (and her…

So, what are you doing on Thursday night? Really late on Thursday night… Friday morning, actually. I’ll have some coffee to keep me awake for Kurt Weidemann! A new documentary piece by Chris Schaal on the seminal German typographer and designer will air on the German television station SWR at 12:30am on Friday, October 24th.…

Here is my personal recipe for happiness: DB Mobility BahnCard 100 iPhone 3G 8GB Move to Berlin Get a dog Achieve personal bliss

On September 24, I returned to Germany from Reading. Bureaucratically speaking, this will be my third period of residency here, having been previously domiciled in the Federal Republic for eight months in 2001–2002, and for four years from 2003–2007. I missed Germany tremendously while living in England, preferring almost everything on the continent to the…

The Hemingway theme that I’ve been using for awhile hasn’t seen an update since 2006. I’m beginning to find TypeOff.’s look a little stale. Does anyone have any recommendations for other themes, tutorials on building a theme, or a designer I should hire to build a theme for me?

Mark your calendars! On Wednesday, 3 September 2008, a new exhibition of contemporary typeface design will open at the Klingspor Museum in Offenbach, Germany. Everyone is invited; the festivities will commence at 7pm. Unfortunately, I’ll be in England writing my dissertation. Even though my work is included in the exhibition, I won’t have the opportunity…

“You’re insane! No one uses Microsoft Works.” – Times New Roman Well, if this video isn’t the funniest bit of online type humor I’ve ever seen, I don’t know what is. Please go watch Font Conference, right now. Twice. Via Typophile.

Barack Obama will be speaking in Berlin on Thursday, and a marvellous poster announcing the event is making the rounds. Actually, when I look at the poster’s design, I really don’t understand what the deal with the letterspacing is… “Senator Barack Obama” looks just fine. But “Tiergarten” is spaced way too tightly in comparison. What’s…

JibJab creates the best US election animated shorts, period. Following their 2004 hit comes a new offering: Time for Some Campaignin’. And if any Austrian readers make it through the whole video… yes, that impersonation at the end of the clip is what your voices sound like to Americans. I’m sorry.

Berlin has so many fab type designers that it can be difficult to pick favorites. So I won’t. However, Verena Gerlach newest typeface release was announced on the German FontBlog today, and I just have to jump on the band wagon. I first got a peek at this design a few months ago, and I’ve…

In the project Handwritten Typographers, Kris Sowersby’s handwriting sample strays a bit from the pack. It doesn’t read “I’m Kris and this is my handwriting,” but rather “Typo­grafische Monatsblätter Nr. 4 1989.” Wha’’s that about? I want to know! For insight, I went over to the University of Reading library, were bound archives of the…