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Thank You, America! by Jan Wilker

Originally from South Germany from a little town with the world’s highest church, he watched the movie Coming to America there 25 years ago that intrigued him. Only difference is, the version he watched was in German in funny voices. Hakim displayed pride in handling garbage. It wasn’t “handling garbage” to him, but “handling American garbage”.

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TYPO meets design from Poland

Touch also means encounter. The next TYPO is therefore happy to announce two forums, which will take a closer look at the trends in Eastern European graphic design in Poland and Russia today.

The Polish design scene is moving fast, and has been increasingly triggering a lot of interest on a global scale. Our Design Special Poland will start on Friday, at noon, on the main hall: Rene Wawrzkiewicz will present ten graphic designers from Poland, who have become internationally famous for their works.

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Anthony Burrill: Working Hard and Being Nice to People

Anthony Burrill describes himself as a ‘persuasive, up-beat illustrator and designer’. Today at TYPO London, the softly spoken man took us on a fantastic journey through his eclectic career to date; regaling stories of letter-pressing in the “ancient” town of Rye, printing a poster using the crude oil from the disastrous BP spill of 2006 BP and why we should “Work Hard and Be Nice to People”.

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Yves Peters: Trajan in Movie Posters

A few years ago Yves Peters noticed a demand from people to know what typefaces are being used on movie posters. So he started blogging about it on the FontFeed blog.
When you start looking at movie posters all the time, you start noticing some pretty major trends. If the movie is a comedy, it will most likely include large, chubby red or blue type. If it’s a romantic comedy, the font will mostly likely be serif. Indie films? More than likely you can expect some sort of hand-rendered Helvetica or Gotham. But, Yves notes, all type aside, if there are two people laying in bed on the movie poster. You can almost be guaranteed there won’t be any action.

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Designers in Dialogue: Parra and Jason Munn

Subtitled Music Matters: Graphic Design, Typography, and the Art of the Poster, this talk featured a conversation between designers Jason Munn, Parra, and curator Joseph Becker. Munn and Parra are two radically different designers who often approach the same problem—how to translate music into words and images in show posters and tour merchandise—from opposite ends of the spectrum.

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