We recently sent all TYPO Berlin 2012 speakers a little questionnaire with five questions. We will be posting these Q&A’s in a loose series in in the run-up to the conference. First up is »letterer, illustrator, type nerd, and secret web designer« Jessica Hische.
A day with with Michael B Johnson from pixar studios, Joachim Sauter from Art+Com, Gary Hustwit, Tim Fendley, Lawrence Weiner, UX designer Tom Uglow, Susana Rodríguez de Tembleque and Design icon Neville Brody.
Arriving at #typo11, as a non designer and coming from the advertising and social media industry, I was expecting to be challenged by some hardcore type nerd lingo and design-geek dialect. But I found a real sense of the familiar in the language Jeff Faulkner used in his talk ‘Extraordinary Machines’.
I think the word Pixar invokes excitement and awe from most people who hear it so needless to say I was excited to hear Dr. Michael B. Johnson of Pixar talking today at TYPO London. And boy, was he given an introduction by Erik Spiekermann.
As you all know, Dagobah was the planet where Luke Skywalker met the old Jedi master Yoda, he of the strange speech pattern.
TYPO London 2011 was kicked off with a visually engaging talk by Dale Herigstad, the Emmy award winning Founder of Schematic (now merged to become Possible Worldwide).
There is a rectangle, possibly dictated by the printing press, that has defined the place where much of the information mankind has consumed has existed. And it is the confinement of this rectangle that has been at the heart of Dale Herigstad’s work. Or rather, his work explores what is beyond the confines – or what might, could and should be outside, in front of and behind of the rectangle.
Im Laufe von sieben Jahren erneuern sich unsere Körperzellen, die alten sterben ab. Alle sieben Jahre sollten auch wir uns in unserem gestalterischen Tun neu erfinden, sagt Sauter.
Joachim Sauter has been working as a media designer since the early 1980s. From the beginning, he focussed on digital technologies, and is exploring how they can be used to express content and narration. Fuelled by this interest, he founded ART+COM in 1988 along with other artists, designers, scientists, and technologists. Their goal was to do practical research into what was, at the time, a new and up-and-coming medium in the realm of art and design. He still heads up that interdisciplinary team. Since 1991 he has been a professor of “new media art and design” at Berlin’s College of the Arts, and since 2001 an adjunct professor at the University of California, Los Angeles.
Zum Schluss gibt David Carson uns mit auf den Weg, Passion bedeute einen Job zu haben, den man zur Not auch Umsonst machen würde. Vorher haben wir erlebt, dass es gar nicht so einfach ist, innerhalb einer Powerpoint-Präsentation ein Videoslide ablaufen zu lassen. Und dass es fragwürdig ist, einen Supermarkt im Mittelwesten Kum and Go zu nennen. Oder dem Weihnachtsmann einen Socken mit Tarnmuster an den Kamin zu pinnen.
