Flashback Tuesday: Paula Scher, TYPO London 2012
“Breakthroughs, Successes and Failures” – In her epic presentation recorded at TYPO London 2012, Paula Scher of Pentagram fame talks about “Projects that shaped me, made me and broke me.”
“Breakthroughs, Successes and Failures” – In her epic presentation recorded at TYPO London 2012, Paula Scher of Pentagram fame talks about “Projects that shaped me, made me and broke me.”
Seit Ken Garland in den frühen 60er Jahren die britische Anti-Atomwaffen Bewegung mit einer visuellen Botschaft ausgestattet hat, bewegen sein Design und seine Forderungen an Design von England aus die Welt.
Rick Banks a freelance designer typographer, aged 26. The question he raised was pretty straightforward: how did I build my social network?
Rian Hughes is a man of many sides. Comic book artist of 2000AD fame, accomplished illustrator, graphic designer, type designer, “prolific rummager” and most recently author of a book entitled “Cult-ure: Ideas Can Be Dangerous”. Hughes’ talk today at TYPO focused on the later, offering a thought-provoking 45 minutes on the concept of culture, and how (for better or worse) it shapes our perception of the world.
Matthew Butterick’s philosophy is about taking risks and making things happen.
Graduated from Harvard, being a typographer, a writer (‘Typography for Lawyers’) and a lawyer, he clearly and accurately raised the importance of the written word, within the graphic design industry. He asks us two main questions: what makes typography valuable and how can we rebuild the typographic society?
Vaughan Oliver, designer and art director spoke yesterday at TYPO London of a career spanning 30 years in 30 minutes. Oliver is perhaps best known for (but certainly not limited to) his record cover work with various photographers under the names 23 Envelope and v23, producing iconic artwork for artists such as Cocteau Twins, This Mortal Coil, Lush, UVS, Pixies, The Breeders, Bush, TV on the Radio, Bon Iver, Zomby and more recently David Lynch.
Kate Moross isn’t ashamed to be a child of the MySpace generation. After all, the 26-year-old designer owes much of her success and many of her clients to aptly using the early social networking site. As a “post post punk punk,” the internet helped define Moross’ business focus of “Art + Music + Grrrl.”
Paula Scher is a an artist pretending to be a designer. With an upbringing that incorporated a rejection of modernist uniformity and embracing a revolutionist counter-culture of peace, she began her career working at CBS as an art director. Her work now covers all facets of design, yet is always anchored in a strong & consistent visual language.
Typekit’s Sean McBride had come over from San Francisco to give us an introduction to web typography. The jam-packed Drama Studio room made clear that there is still a demand for talks on the possibilities of typography on the web.
Mariana Santos and Mark McCormick shared the stage to talk about how the Guardian is using the readers to enforce their publication. Mariana is doing interactive design and Mark is specialised in infographics. They toss subjects beween their disciplines to make the most of it.
The title of Tony Chambers’ talk calls for explanation. Stringing along with Eike König, the previous speaker on stage, Chambers also announced that he would not be showing his own work, but work by others instead. As Creative Director and Editor-In-Chief at Wallpaper* Tony Chambers has received numerous invitation cards to all kinds of shows of the fashion industry. Accompanied by his assistants Sarah, Lee and Rose he presented his extensive collection of the last ten years, commenting on their typographic quality, production and overall looks. In this context, Chambers explains, a »stiffy« is an old-fashioned colloquial term for a »thick, elegant invitation to something rather grand«.