Juliette Bellocq of design studio Handbuilt offered a fascinating look at the inspirations and aspirations that drive her work, most importantly artist and designer (and nun) Corita Kent.
After a brief intro to Kent’s art and vision, Juliette provided a kind of conceptual schema for her own design work, breaking it into four categories:
At this year’s TYPO San Francisco, we look forward to hearing from Thomas Castro of LUST.
We are excited to have eclectic designer Morag Myerscough of London’s Supergroup speak at TYPO San Francisco.
Susana Rodríguez de Tembleque gave a short but sweet presentation yesterday. She spoke about two defining moments in her 18 year career. Number one was in 1997 which was what she calls her first big job and number two was in 2009 which is what she calls her first dream job.
Look again, think again was the standout sound byte from Marina Willers’ talk this morning. The invitation to keep questioning and experimenting is pivotal to Wolff Olins work, and as she flicked through case studies of their work, each project feeling different from the next, that sense of inquisitive experimentation shone through.
Tony Brook is a self-confessed obsessive, with a single focus for his graphic desires: the remarkable Wim Crouwel.
Places are an affair of the heart for London based Morag Myerscough. Over the last decade she has become known as a passionate designer of public space. Starting from exhibition design she went on to injecting colour, pattern and big type into schools, health – or art centres. Morag adds a graphic sense that welcomes visitors and provides orientation and a sense of place. “We sort of infiltrated the architecture scene.” Morag remarks in a recent video interview with Eye magazine and “I want to work for people who are brave and want to try out new things”.
Joachim Sauter co-founded Art+Com in the mid eighties in Berlin. The company evolved from an interdisciplinary group of designers, architects and artists from the Berlin University of the Arts as well as hackers from the ChaosComputerClub. The group used the upcoming digital technology not only as a tool, but potential (mass) medium. Founded as an non-profit organisation to explore the new medium’s possibilities for art, design, science and technology, Art+Com did not commence commercial projects not before the mid 1990s.
Just two months to go until TYPO London kicks off! We would like to use the remaining time to introduce the speakers and their work. We sent all TYPO London 2011 speakers a questionnaire and got a whole bunch of interesting and charming feedback. Let’s start with… Joachim Sauter.
Fons Hickmann is a designer, author and professor of graphic design at the Arts Academy. In 2001, he founded the design bureau “Fons Hickman m23” and began developing projects, exhibitions and publications around the world.
