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Program, Speakers | Sabine Gruppe, 28 October 2011

TYPO London 2011 in retrospect [Update]

You want to read more about TYPO London 2011? Here’s a collection of Links and Blogposts.

TYPO London 2012: Morag Myerscough

Morag Myerscough was part of an eclcectic mix of English as well as international speakers at the first TYPO London conference in October 2011   (©kassnerfoto.de)

Creative Review:

Design Indaba: Places of Type by Lynda Relph-Knight

Epic Flickr photo album by Michael B. Johnson: TYPO London 2011 Trip

Salford University Blog: The TYPO London conference

Eye blog: In the bunker

Design Assembly:

 

TYPO London attendees photographed, twittered and blogged conference content worth spreading (Photo: Gerhard Kassner)

The FontFeed:

FontShop USA: Reflections on TYPO London

The Wanderlust: Typo London Places 2011 review and summary

Eva-Lotta Lamm: TYPO London 2011 Sketchnotes

Sense Worldwide: Tim Fendley at Typo 2011 – Legible London

Computer Arts:

Slanted:

 

TYPO London speaker Karin von Ompteda (Photo: Gerhard Kassner)

stylus.com:

Kira Slepchenkova: Post Time

Megaluna: Ik heb 18 fotos op Facebook geplaatst in het album Typo 2011

Design Week:

Birdwatching: TYPO London 2011

Hannah Gibson: TYPO London

Sol Kawage: London

That Design:

Theo Inglis: TYPO London 2011 – Michael Bierut

TYPO London speaker Bruno Maag (Photo: Gerhard Kassner)

W210 blog: Typo London 2011

Sydney Soan: The first ever TYPO London …

Ben Mitchell: Typo London

Sydney Botting: TYPO London 2011

König Bansah: Königliche Autogrammstunde auf der TYPO London 2011

Construct: Drawing competition at TYPO London Speakers Dinner

TYPO London speaker Jonathan Barnbrook (Photo: Gerhard Kassner)

TYPO London Blog:

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Morag Myerscough

Morag Myerscough

Over the years Morag has concentrated on working way beyond the restrictions of 2-D and creates and curates many different types of work including a train as a café, numerous exhibitions, interpreting buildings plus running her own gallery and shop »her house«. Myerscough believes that wayfinding is not purely about a series of signs but as much about bringing out the narrative in the built environment, enhancing the physical experience, it is very important how people feel when they move through a space, if they can move easily almost unconsciously and if you can make them smile and feel happy that is one of the best outcomes. Morag studied at St Martin's and the Royal College of Art. Starting Studio Myerscough in 1993.
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Jonathan Ellery

Jonathan Ellery

Jonathan Ellery is the founder of London based design studio Browns. Since it opened for business in 1998, Browns has built a reputation for its progressive and conceptual approach to design. It brings artistry, wit, rigour and skilful management to projects large and small, ambitious and unassuming. Its definition of design is broad, its points of references are from much further a field, as are its collaborations. In April 2011 Browns was named design studio of the year by Creative Review Magazine. In 2005 Ellery launched Browns Editions, the publishing arm of Browns which produces limited edition photography, and conceptual art books. With so much emphasis on screen based, digital technology these days, Ellery sees Browns Editions as offering a precious enclave of resistance. 2005 also marked Ellery’s first notable shift towards balancing design and his work as a solo artist. With four one man shows in as many years in London and New York, his fifth, The Human Condition, is to be shown in London, Spring 2011. He works across a wide range of media from sculpture to performance, film to photography. The medium of book art is also central to his work, molding paper, fonts and images as he would any other medium, to create tactile, hand numbered, objects of art.
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Dale Herigstad

Dale Herigstad

Dale is a thought leader on the future of media consumption in an interactive and “many-screen” world of increasingly rich media interfaces. With an extensive background in Broadcast Design and branding, he was creative director of on-air design and branding for the three CBS Sports Winter Olympics broadcasts in the 1990s. Having his roots in the rich media approach to design in TV and film, he has pioneered a unique spatial approach to designing navigation systems for Interactive TV and connected screens. The work begins to blur the line between television, games and web, a concept he calls "New Television." Dale was a part of the research team that developed the visionary gestural interfaces that first appeared in the film “Minority Report,” and is now leading development work in the rapidly emerging world of gestural navigation for screens at a distance. Screens have always defined unique spaces, and, particularly with advancements in stereo 3D projection and advanced AR, information can occupy these spaces. Spatial context is becoming increasingly important in design that is no longer flat: space and place are the new frontiers of design. Dale has an MFA from California Institute of the Arts, where in 1981 he taught the first course in Motion Graphics offered to designers in the United States. He served on the founding advisory board of the digital content direction at the American Film Institute, and was an active participant in the development of advanced prototypes for Enhanced TV at AFI for many years. Dale has won four Emmy awards. Dale was co-founder of interactive agency Schematic, which recently merged with three other agencies to become global powerhouse Possible Worldwide. He resides in London.
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Gary Hustwit

Filmmaker (New York)

Gary Hustwit is an independent filmmaker and photographer based in New York. He is the CEO and Creative Director of Scenic, a virtual reality content studio focusing on non-fiction VR. Gary has produced 13 feature documentaries, including the design trilogy of Helvetica, Objectified, and Urbanized. His films have been broadcast on HBO, PBS, BBC, and television outlets in 20 countries, and have been screened in over 300 cities worldwide.
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Andrew Stevens

Andrew Stevens

Graphic Thought Facility is a London-based design consultancy. Founded 1990 we have worked for retailers, manufacturers, publishers, cultural institutions and galleries around the world and have forged long-term relationships with many of our clients. The scale and complexity of our projects are as varied as our clients. Recent commissions include store environments for M&S, exhibition design for the Science Museum, books for Gagosian Gallery, wayfinding for VitraHaus and campaigns for Kvadrat and Frieze Art Fair. Over this time the studio has striven to stay relatively small – currently a team of ten designers supported by our studio manager. Andrew Stevens, Director, born in Sheffield, 1966. Studied graphic design at Leeds Polytechnic, 1985-88, and Royal College of Art, 1988-90. Founder member of Graphic Thought Facility in London, 1990.
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Neville Brody

Neville Brody is a designer, typographer, art director, brand strategist and consultant and has established himself as one of the most prolific, innovative and influential graphic designers in the world. Neville is also the founder of the Research Studios network with studios in Berlin, New York, Paris, Barcelona and Tokyo. Having redesigned The Times newspaper and the BBC website, current clients include LVMH, Nike, United British Media, Nokia and Converse together with several arts and culture based organisations in the UK and Asia.
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Marina Willer

Marina Willer

Designer and film-maker Marina Willer is the leading creative director at Wolff Olins London. Originally from Brazil, she has been living and working in London for 15 years. Marina is best known for having designed the now world famous Tate logo, part of brand work which led UK culture to be reimagined in the eyes of the public. Marina was also the leading creative on identities like Southbank Centre, Schaulager, Macmillan Cancer support, Oi (the Braziliant Telecom), Beeline (which is now estimated to be the most valuable brand in Russia) and various international brands. Among her film projects, she made “Exposed” to introduce Richard Rogers’ exhibition in the Pompidou Centre and Design Museum. Others have been shown at the Cartier Foundation in Paris, ICA in London and won awards such as best short film in Sao Paulo film festival, with the film “Cartas da Mãe. Marina has been a member of the jury at D&AD 4 times and is an external examiner at the Royal College of Art, having also previously obtained an MA from the College.
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Julian Zimmermann

Julian Zimmermann

Julian Zimmermann, born in 1983, lives, works and studies in Mannheim. His design profile for King Bansah was developed as part of his work on a bachelor’s of communication design at Mannheim College. Zimmermann concentrates on typography, and corporate and editorial design. Among other accolades, he has received the iF, reddot and European Design Award.
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King Bansah

King Bansah

A young boy grew up in a small village in Ghana who liked to work on cars and dreamed of owning his own company. His name was Céphas Bansah. His grandfather, the king of Hohoe Ghana, helped him fulfil that dream and sent him to Ludwigshafen in Germany, where he soon earned two master craftsman trade licenses and has, for the last 30 years, owned and operated an auto repair shop. Céphas Bansah started a family and lived a content and happy life until a fax from Ghana changed his simple existence forever. His grandfather had died and the tribal elders had chosen him as the new king. Bansah took on the office of king as his new life’s work. He quickly recognised that the only way to help his people improve their lives was to realise aid projects in Ghana with effective media exposure. The result was bridges, schools, clinics and much more. King Bansah is a monarch who wears his office with dignity. But he has no problem appearing on television in entertainment shows. He is a quick-witted, spirited, funny king who captures the hearts of an audience with his distinctive charm – all in the service of improving the lot of his people in Ghana.
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Chip Kidd

Chip Kidd

Writer / Graphic Designer (New York, New York)

The history of book design can be split into two eras: before graphic designer Chip Kidd and after. Time Out New York, Nov. 2005 Chip Kidd is a writer and graphic designer in New York City. His book jacket designs for Alfred A. Knopf (where he has worked since 1986) have helped spawn a revolution in the art of American book packaging. In 1997 he received the International Center of Photography's award for Use of Photography in Graphic Design, and he is a regular contributor of visual commentary to the Op-ed page of the New York Times. In the fall of 2006, Kidd's work will be included in the Cooper-Hewitt Museum's third National Design Triennial. Mr Kidd has also written about graphic design and popular culture for McSeeney's, The New York Times, The New York Observer, Entertainment Weekly, Details, The New York Post, ID and Print. His first book as author and designer, Batman Collected (Bulfinch, 1996), was given the Design Distinction award from ID magazine, and his second, Batman Animated (HarperCollins, Fall 1998) garnered two of the Comics Industry's Eisner Awards, as did his 2002 book Peanuts: The Art of Charles M. Schulz. As an editor of books of comics for Pantheon (a subsidiary of Knopf) Kidd has worked extensively with some of the most brilliant talents practicing today, including: Chris Ware, Art Spiegelman, Dan Clowes, Kim Deitch, Charles Burns, Mark Beyer, Ben Katchor and Alex Ross. A comprehensive monograph of Kidd's work, CHIP KIDD: BOOK ONE was published in October of 2005. The introduction is by John Updike and the 400 page book features over 800 works, spanning two decades, from 1986 through 2006. It's first edition sold out a week before publication and it has since gone into two consecutive re-printings. The Cheese Monkeys, Kidd's first novel, was published by Scribner in Fall of 2001 and was a national bestseller, as well as a New York Times Notable Book of the Year. He is currently at work on his second novel, tentatively titled The Learners. Both books use the design process as a means to construct a compelling narrative.
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Tim Fendley

Tim Fendley

Tim was the lead-designer of Bristol Legible City and has since developed legible cities for Brighton, Glasgow, Ipswich, Vancouver and Gotham City. He has a passion for cities mapping and a methodology that encompasses diagnostic testing in real situations mixed with product design prototyping techniques. Tim’s recent interest has been to make sense of London, by initiating a project he called Legible London, a capital-wide pedestrian wayfinding system. When complete, it will be the most extensive of its kind.
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Nat Hunter

Nat is a Design Director at the RSA in London, using design to close the gap between our every day behaviour and the future to which we aspire. She is also working on various other digital and art projects. She was one of the founders of Airside and of Three Trees Don't Make a Forest and is currently on the executive committee of D&AD.
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Karin von Ompteda

Karin von Ompteda

Karin is a designer and researcher based at the Royal College of Art in London. Her work is focused on the integration of scientific and design approaches to typeface legibility, with particular interest in low vision readers. Central to her research is the use of data visualisation to explore design artifacts and inspire new thinking about the practice of typography. Karin’s background is in biology, having completed her MSc at the University of Toronto as an NSERC scholar. At age 26 she left the sciences to pursue a BDes in graphic design at the Ontario College of Art and Design. Upon graduation she moved to London having been awarded the prestigious Commonwealth Scholarship to undertake interdisciplinary research at the Royal College of Art. She currently holds a SSHRC Doctoral Fellowship. Karin has presented her research at conferences including ATypI and Include, and institutions including the University of Cambridge, University of Reading and Tsinghua University, Beijing. Her design work has been published internationally including by Laurence King and RotoVision, and appeared in exhibitions including the Brno Biennial and BIO Biennial. Karin also runs data visualisation workshops and consults for the BBC.
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