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Sean McBride: More Than Type

Sean McBride is an engineer and product developer at Typekit, which is to say, he does a little bit of everything. In, “More Than Type,” he reveals how Typekit does a little bit of everything too. In developing a service to license and display fonts on sites for a subscription, Typekit introduced a radical idea: in addition to their fundamental service, Typekit educates its customers about how to get the most out of that service.

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Keetra Dean Dixon: A Little Knowledge and Other Minor Daredeviling

Walking us through her widely diverse array of works, Keetra Dean Dixon delighted and inspired her TYPO audience today. Initially showing some of her past work, her inquisitive nature immediately became evident through her thoughtful, experimental, and sincerely absurd projects, such as The Anonymous Hugging Wall and her Union Sleeve. Keetra then broke up the rest of her presentation into parts titled Thinking Through Making and Making Through Breaking.

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Ludovic Balland: The Modern Man Thinks in Contrasts

Kali Nikitas introduced her friend, Ludovic Balland, to the stage, and opened Typo Day 2 with the questions, “Who likes type? Who likes sex? Who likes sexy type?” At the end of Ludovic’s talk, Kali commented that in the beginning, the audience might’ve been wondering, who are you, but by the end, we just want to hold you! And that was exactly how I felt.

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Christoph Niemann: That’s is Where I Draw the Line

Christoph Niemann started out his talk on a lovely visual play on how we input our passwords. It was a delightful illustration in a type of wit that only Christoph Niemann seems to possess. So how does he do it? For his talk he began by diving into his process and the life of an illustrator. According to him, it turns out the majority of the day is spent in agony with pockets of joy in getting the initial idea and invoicing.

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Faythe Levine: It’s Just a Sign, Until it Influences Your Entire Life

Faythe Levine’s latest book and documentary film, both titled Sign Painters, explore the trade of hand-painted signage in America today. Since information on sign painting was scarce, Faythe presented her research for her documentary that ranged from hard-to-find books and magazine on the subject to letters from family members of sign painters that were excited about the upcoming documentary.

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Contrast Sessions: Tonia Bartz, Josh Damon Williams, Toke Nygaard: Experiencing Contrast: Three Different Backgrounds on UX Design

Do agency employees or product side designers have better hair? What do blue or red figures convey to our military forces? How does story boarding make you a stronger designer?
Bridging three different backgrounds, professional experiences and perspectives Tonia Bartz, Josh Damon Williams and Toke Nygaard answered the above questions and many more as they illuminated considerations for optimal user experience design.

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Marian Bantjes: Type and Pattern Systems

In the words of Marian Bantjes, “This is a very strange thing that I’m sucking on here.”

Granted, she was referring to the cough drop a thoughtful audience member had handed to her while on stage, whereas I am referring to wrapping my mind around the detailed and beautiful typographic works she presented and discussed in her 40-minute talk.

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