Jen Bilik joins us for this week’s Focus Forum.
The owner and founder of Knock Knock, Jen Bilik has a background in book editing, writing, design, and arts and crafts. Knock Knock’s witty, design-driven books, gifts, and stationery products are sold in 6,000 stores across the United States.
Thomas Phinney joins us for this week’s Focus Forum.
Phinney is vice president of FontLab in Portland, Oregon. He is also a freelance type consultant, font detective, and type designer. He previously spent five years at Extensis creating webfonts and font management tools, and over a decade at Adobe as product manager for fonts and global typography.
Focus Forum is excited to introduce a local San Franciscan to our series. This week we speak to Arin Fishkin, an independent graphic designer who creates brands and materials for unique San Francisco businesses.
Arin Fishkin Graphic Design has been creating award winning work in the Mission Disctrict of San Francisco for over 15 years. She also creates art prints based on her favorite SF spots, and is an enthusiastic photographer documenting the Paniolo culture of Maui, and the landscape and artwork of Burning Man.
It’s a new week and we’ve got a new Focus Forum with TYPO SF speaker Alastair Johnston.
Alastair Johnston is a partner at Poltroon Press in Berkeley, California. He taught college level courses in typography for over 30 years. He has published scores of books and won the Award of Excellence in the AIGA Just Type Show.
TYPO Talks takes a few moments each year to chat with some of the speakers you can look forward to at the upcoming conference. We are excited to kick off this year’s blog series, Focus Forum, with designer Mark Simonson.
Mark Simonson is an independent type designer working out of his home in Saint Paul, Minnesota. Over the span of his career he has designed over a dozen typefaces, perhaps most notably the Proxima Nova family.
Erik Kessels takes us through the defining stations of his career, starting with his first paid gig as a creative for the infamous Hans Brinker Bugdet Hotels in Amsterdam.
Professor Dr. Manfred Hild ist Leiter des Forschungslabors Neurorobotik an der Beuth Hochschule für Technik Berlin. In unserem kurzen Interview stellt er uns den Roboter Myon vor, der im Mai auf der TYPO auftreten wird.
Nina Stössinger (b. 1978) is a type designer, typographer and code tinkerer from Basel. After publishing her first typeface (FF Ernestine) and five years of running her own graphic design and typography studio, she moved to The Hague for her master’s in type and media. She found it suited her and since graduating, the “Type Designer to watch” (Print Magazine, February 2015) has been living happily in a small house near the sea, nurturing her new studio, Typologic.
In the second part of our Skype interview, Aaron James Draplin talks about which records, books, movies and exhibitions have been inspiring him lately.
Aaron Draplin speaks about his beginnings in the business, his artistic approach, recent works, and his most marked characteristic.
Another Skype interview in the run up for TYPO Berlin 2015. Sydney-based Gemma O’Brien tells us a little bit about her career.
Jon Burgerman on how to get started, where to start and how to get running as an artist, painter, designer and illustrator. And being successful in all. Jon Burgerman will be speaking at TYPO Berlin 2015.
