Tash Wong: Oh Sh!t, I Have to Make It Now
Making it is hard. Tash Wong is here to help.
Making it is hard. Tash Wong is here to help.
Typecooks Erik van Blokland and Paul van der Laan fried and roasted the recipes sketched by TYPO guests during the conference.
Das hebräische Alef-bet ist das Alphabet des antiken und modernen Hebräisch und eines der ältesten noch verwendeten. In Zusammenarbeit mit dem Jüdischen Museum Berlin gab der Workshop von LANGESOMMER Einblicke in die hebräische Kalligrafie und Schrift. Gemeinsam mit Amichai Green vom Jüdischen Museum, lernten die TeilnehmerInnen, hebräische Buchstaben mit einer Feder zu schreiben und damit Duktus und Schönheit der hebräischen Kalligrafie kennenzulernen.
Moin! Der Hamburger Sympathieträger Markus Jasker geleitete die wissbegierigen Zuschauer der TYPO mit seiner nordischen Hilfsbereitschaft geschwind über Stock und Stein der Adobe Programme Indesign und Illustrator.
Yesterday Andre Jay Meissner introduced us to three new kick-ass features in CSS. As a developer at Adobe, he is contributing new features to your browser and educating designers on how to use them.
I hope you had a chance to visit the $1/MINUTE participatory creative workshop set up by Ana Llorente & Davey Whitcraft of Strangeways Academy. Throughout the past two days, conference attendees had the opportunity to place requests (and name their price) for projects that were fulfilled by the workshop directors and rotating guest creatives – open to anyone who wanted to participate.
Us is a de-centralized design collective that explores non-traditional methods of process and collaboration. In response to this year’s theme of rhythm, they have set up an interactive workshop where conference attendees generate hand crafted poster art by working within (and against) established parameters, taking inspiration from the elements provided while exercising creative liberty to remix and re-imagine.
For TYPO Berlin 2013 Erik Spiekermann, Axel Nagel, Thomas Maier and Ferdinand Ulrich organized a printing press, wood type letters and stamps to print posters and t-shirts with the attendees. Thanks to Opposition Studios for making this video.
It’s always tough getting up on stage and public speaking, but when you’re up against Neville Brody in the conference schedule time slot, it’s next level nerves. That’s exactly what Lupi Asensio, Martin Lorenz and four very brave students were faced with.
Christian Büning and Jakob Maser of the BDG teamed up to present us with the true facts about design as business. They refresh us with statistics of the eye opening, just published salary report based on a survey where they ask the relevant questions to 793 employed and 743 self-employed designers. The result of many answers this report reveals is shocking!
On Thursday at 8 p.m. the ring is cleared at TYPO Hall. Martina Flor, lettering artist appears on the one side and Giuseppe Salerno, calligrapher, on the other.
For over half a year they run the online battle Lettering vs. Calligraphy. Each day Martina draws and Giuseppe writes one letter. The letter is chosen by both of them, its attribute by different guest specialists. Many of them are not-so-unknown type-related professionals or calligraphy artists from all over the world like Jan Middendorp, Nina Stössinger, Stephen Coles or Nate Williams, to name just a few. Visitors of the site can vote for their favourites.
Workshops and hand-on-practice is a big topic for TYPO conferences. Unfortunately we can’t always cover the workshops we want to do – ‘cause who wants to go to a day-long-workshop when you’ve paid to see a whole day of inspiring talks? Well, no one really. That’s why we concentrated on offering short introductive exercise classes.
If you want to dive deeper into communication design, we can strongly recommend going to Design Werkstatt’s Berlin workshop, that’s going to happen the days before TYPO Berlin.