Subtitled Music Matters: Graphic Design, Typography, and the Art of the Poster, this talk featured a conversation between designers Jason Munn, Parra, and curator Joseph Becker. Munn and Parra are two radically different designers who often approach the same problem—how to translate music into words and images in show posters and tour merchandise—from opposite ends of the spectrum.
When you spend 30 months designing an e-book platform like Peter Cho, you learn a few things.
Eva-Lotta Lamm is funny. She kicked off her talk on sketchnotes by declaring her love for the Pixies. She also doesn’t cook but makes great salads, doesn’t drive a car, and loves fresh fruit with yogurt and muesli for breakfast.
Typo kicked off this morning with a buzzing lobby and a packed house, as Facilitators Erik Spiekermann, Jan Abrams, and Kali Nikitas took the stage to introduce our first speaker Tina Roth Eisenberg, swissmiss herself.
“Swiss Miss” Tina Roth Eisenberg began our first TYPO SF conference today with a talk on “The Power of Side Projects and Eccentric Aunts”. Tina’s own eccentric aunt was a designer who introduced her to the very idea that this thing called design was something that one could do for a living. The swiss miss passed down her own sage advice to the full auditorium with a list of 8 principles.
Kutlu Çanlıoğlu, Senior Creative Director for the BBC World Service, gave a detailed analysis of the process he went through in helping to create a Global Experience Language (GEL) for their news websites, which reach 180 million people each week, in 27 languages and 9 scripts.
Blogger, designer and organizer of CreativeMornings, Tina Roth Eisenberg is well known in the design field. We are excited to have her presence at TYPO San Francisco as a speaker.
Dutch artist Parra is well known for his iconic post-Pop imagery. We are thrilled Parra will join TYPO San Francisco for a candid conversation with SFMOMA curator Joseph Becker.
Mike Monteiro of San Francisco-based Mule Design will speak at TYPO San Francisco this April! We are thrilled to have this local designer share his candid insights.
Dr. Michael B. Johnson captivated audiences at TYPO Berlin, and we are excited to have him speak at TYPO San Francisco!
At this year’s TYPO San Francisco, we look forward to hearing from Thomas Castro of LUST.
Kutlu Çanlıoğlu has extensive experience as a user experience designer. We look forward to hearing from Kutlu at this year’s TYPO San Francisco.
