Typofest Bulgaria
What if you live in a country with great Schriftkultur, but only a few typefaces that offer your local glyph forms? And yes, it is Schrift in Bulgarian for type. Get to know a type culture and community arising anew.
What if you live in a country with great Schriftkultur, but only a few typefaces that offer your local glyph forms? And yes, it is Schrift in Bulgarian for type. Get to know a type culture and community arising anew.
Local liquor stores can be the start of great things. For David Jonathan Ross they were the start of an in-depth exploration into the realm of vertical letterforms. His analysis of shop signage in the urban landscape, as well as the technical and aesthetic challenges when vertically drawing letters and setting type resulted in the typeface “Bungee”.
It is right after Friday’s lunch break and time for Sasha Prood to take over the busy Nest workshop stage. With a toolbox of different conceptual approaches she gives an insight into the workflow of combining letterforms and illustration.
Kufic is the oldest Arabic script and is deeply rooted in the Islam. Still it is unclear to this day how calligraphers and professional copyists exactly wrote it. Based on this question, participants of this workshop were asked to interpret the Kufic letterforms and in the end create stencils out of it.
When it comes to Arabic logo design, you will most often find it accompanied by Latin text. But it takes a great deal of sensitivity to combine two different scripts into a harmonic design. During the Bilingual Arabic & Latin Monogram Design workshop, Tarek Atrissi challenged the participants to meld Latin and Arabic characters into unique and aesthetically pleasing typographical designs.
Berlin, drop that beat! San Fransisco based lettering artist Erik Marinovich explains five chapters of Hip Hop that influence not only his lettering, but his work and life in general.
You can tell right away: the Typejockeys are serious and special. They boast the combined type design skills of an alumni of each of the two type design MA courses in Europe and they are not only business partners and colleagues but friends who have known each other f-o-r-e-v-e-r.
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.
Der Ein oder Andere hat auf unserem Facebook-Account schon ein kleines Preview-Bild erhaschen können, doch jetzt ist es offiziell: das erste TYPO-Sketchnotes-Buch von Eva-Lotta Lamm ist fertig. Die User Experience Designerin aus London hat vor einigen Jahren das Illustrieren von Vorträgen für sich entdeckt und perfektioniert.