In ihren Workshops geben die vier Berliner Designer ihren Teilnehmerinnen und Teilnehmern einen ganz engen Rahmen für die Gestaltung eines typografischen Buchcovers. Mit Erfolg.
Design by committee is a term sometimes (ahem, always) negatively used in the creative industries. But now, the trend and move from classical agencies to in-house designers has lessened the stigma attached to working “in-house” and for “team client side”. Prarthana Johnson and Gerrit Kaiser from Soundcloud, tag team to talk about what it means to be designers who are not afraid of designing by committee.
Katrín Ólína is a beautiful mind. Of the kind that unfolds from within, that occurs through the wholeness of the fragmented complexity of being. It is the beauty beyond the surface, beyond gender, and beyond design. (and yet very close)
I have always considered IBM a powerhouse player in the corporate business of product, design, engineering and technology, so naturally I was curious to see and hear Gerhard Pfau share where IBM design and culture are at, and how it’s getting on with reinventing itself.
Niko Kitsakis explains, how learning the Japanese language and experiencing the country and culture affected his work and personal life. His unique perception and his experiences are presented at TYPO Berlin.
The annual PTSD-trigger for former type media students or super-happy-fun-time for everybody else with an intact work-life-balance and friends, is back. You guessed right; it’s TypeCooker™-Correction-Time again. Yaaay…
Tobias Frere-Jones has spent the last 25 years crafting letterforms, setting type and agonising over the smallest of details. He’s designed some of the most widely used typefaces of our time, including Interstate, Poynter Oldstyle, Whitney, Gotham, Surveyor, Tungsten, Retina and more recently, Mallory. With the ever-changing nature of web, he talked through renewed strategies to improve legibility for digital experiences.
The two brothers Juan and Alejandro Mingarro take us on an eclectic odyssey through their work, their beginnings, their connection as brothers and their approach to creativity.
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.
The workshop is filled to capacity as Brooklyn-based book cover designer Isabel Urbina Peña teaches the Universal Hand-lettering Process.
Musician Nils Frahm sat down with designer Johannes Erler to talk about creativity, music, white noise, and classic tools. They spoke in German. Here’s an improvised attempt to paint the scene in English.
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.
