Kreativ gestalten heißt auch: kreativ drucken. Das Oktober-Druck-Kollektiv versteht sich als offenes und innovatives Labor für Nachhaltigkeit und Gestaltung. Seit der bewegten Gründung vor 40 Jahren wird die Berliner Offsetdruckerei Oktoberdruck AG von ihren Mitarbeitern geführt. Die Verknüpfung von ökologischer und gesellschaftlicher Verantwortung mit kreativem Druckhandwerk spielt dabei eine entscheidende Rolle.
Design aus anderen Ländern ist einer der Schwerpunkte der TYPO Berlin 2013, denn der Blick über den Tellerrand inspiriert und fördert die eigene Kreativität. Neben einer attraktiven Liste internationaler Top-Designer bietet die diesjährige Konferenz Präsentationen aus zwei Ländern, die massive politische Veränderungen erfahren haben. Es sind spannende und höchst willkommene Entwicklungen, die Deutschlands Nachbar Polen und das große Russland in den vergangenen Jahren erlebten. Kein gesellschaftlicher Bereich blieb unberührt. Das Grafikdesign machte dabei keine Ausnahme.
On Thursday at 8 p.m. the ring is cleared at TYPO Hall. Martina Flor, lettering artist appears on the one side and Giuseppe Salerno, calligrapher, on the other.
For over half a year they run the online battle Lettering vs. Calligraphy. Each day Martina draws and Giuseppe writes one letter. The letter is chosen by both of them, its attribute by different guest specialists. Many of them are not-so-unknown type-related professionals or calligraphy artists from all over the world like Jan Middendorp, Nina Stössinger, Stephen Coles or Nate Williams, to name just a few. Visitors of the site can vote for their favourites.
If anyone knows what’s going on in Poland’s Design Scene, it is Rene Wawrzkiewicz. He is the creator and curator of Design of the Year (Projekt Roku), the first post-1989 program and competition dedicated to a comprehensive description and assessment of graphic design in Poland. He has also masterminded the “Design Freedom” exhibition, presenting the transformation in Polish visual culture from the era of the “Solidarity” movement until the present day, which has been shown in Japan, Germany and Sweden (2010–2012).
One of TYPO’s major goals this year is to bring the audience in touch with design from abroad. Looking beyond one’s own borders can be crucial to enhancing one’s skills and refreshing creativity. Apart from a delectable list of international top designers, we decided to spotlight two countries that underwent major changes in their political state leaving hardly any aspect of their societies unchanged. Graphic design being no exception.
For the first time in its history, members of the FontFont TypeBoard will be let loose on stage at TYPO Berlin to critique, commend and appraise typefaces in public. In the inaugural FontFont TypeReview, you have the chance to get your work judged by the likes of Erik Spiekermann, Erik van Blokland, Stephen Coles, Andreas Frohloff, Jürgen Siebert and Ivo Gabrowitsch.
TYPO San Francisco kicks off tomorrow and we’re pleased to announce that six talks will be livestreamed over the two days of the event. Tune into the homepage of typotalks.com/sanfrancisco for a link during the times (all Pacific) below:
Touch also means encounter. The next TYPO is therefore happy to announce two forums, which will take a closer look at the trends in Eastern European graphic design in Poland and Russia today.
The Polish design scene is moving fast, and has been increasingly triggering a lot of interest on a global scale. Our Design Special Poland will start on Friday, at noon, on the main hall: Rene Wawrzkiewicz will present ten graphic designers from Poland, who have become internationally famous for their works.
Workshops and hand-on-practice is a big topic for TYPO conferences. Unfortunately we can’t always cover the workshops we want to do – ‘cause who wants to go to a day-long-workshop when you’ve paid to see a whole day of inspiring talks? Well, no one really. That’s why we concentrated on offering short introductive exercise classes.
If you want to dive deeper into communication design, we can strongly recommend going to Design Werkstatt’s Berlin workshop, that’s going to happen the days before TYPO Berlin.
Touch bedeutet auch Begegnung. Deshalb freuen wir uns auf der kommenden TYPO in gleich zwei Foren einen ausführlichen Blick auf die aktuellen Entwicklungen des osteuropäischen Grafikdesign in Polen und Russland zu werfen.
Despite its name, the overall focus of TYPO is on design as a whole, not just typography. That said, we’re pleased to add a Type Track this year in the intimate, 100-seat screening room.
Around this time 18 years ago we launched the website of our first font conference FUSE 95. We loved the conference and we loved meeting people dedicated to type as much as we are. FUSE was much of a hands on event with a ‘lab’ where fonts were freshly brewed while the conference was running.
