An dieser Stelle lenken wir unsere Aufmerksamkeit auf die Talente der neuen Generation, die dieses Jahr außerordentlich gut repräsentiert wird von unseren Sprechern Marlene Schufferth, Harry Keller und Christian Klier. Alle drei sind in Berlin ansässig und in Design-Agenturen, Start-ups und als Freelancer tätig.
What exactly is an interface? And what do we need to design better ones? Oliver Reichenstein gives a charming and philosophical talk about his experience of living in Tokyo, handling the unknown and reading visual language.
Wielding Gestalt laws, horror film, symphonic deletions and moonwalking bears, Ellen Lupton breaks down the concepts of visual thinking and visual storytelling to reveal that they might not be as purely visual as we think.
„Viel mehr als einfach nur ein Vortrag“ ist der Titel eines Vortrags über einen Kunden, eine Agentur und einen Grill. Und ein bisschen auch über die Erschaffung der Welt. Zumindest mal die Welt von Weber Grill.
Gesche Joost from the research lab at Universität der Künste Berlin starts with the image of an interactive quilt that uses visual hints of interactive threat connected to an interface to tell stories. The stories change by folding the fabric in different shapes to create different patterns. In all her projects a group of researchers from different disciplines and expertise work together. The aim is to integrate interfaces that connect and feed back into society to improve it.
Professor Reto Wettach of IXDS, together with his colleague Nancy Birkhölzer gave an interesting talk on their perspective of the relationship humans have with the physical and digital world. The talk was largely based around the fact that people are increasingly interacting with the world around them using just a tiny screen and the tips of their fingers. They questioned how much emotion can possibly be expressed through this type of medium and whether or not we need new ways of incorporating technology into our lives which empower us to interact on a more human level.
Sean McBride is an engineer and product developer at Typekit, which is to say, he does a little bit of everything. In, “More Than Type,” he reveals how Typekit does a little bit of everything too. In developing a service to license and display fonts on sites for a subscription, Typekit introduced a radical idea: in addition to their fundamental service, Typekit educates its customers about how to get the most out of that service.
Do agency employees or product side designers have better hair? What do blue or red figures convey to our military forces? How does story boarding make you a stronger designer?
Bridging three different backgrounds, professional experiences and perspectives Tonia Bartz, Josh Damon Williams and Toke Nygaard answered the above questions and many more as they illuminated considerations for optimal user experience design.
Today we present another episode of Contrast Conversations. Thanks to speaker Tom Manning for taking the time to answer some questions for TYPO Talks!
A Practice for Everyday Life create brand identities, signage & wayfinding, exhibition design, print and websites from concept to production. By telling stories to transform the ordinary into the extraordinary Kirsty Carter and Emma Thomas develop inspired design solutions which earned them much reputation for crafting intelligent, beautiful and innovative work.
“Swiss Miss” Tina Roth Eisenberg began our first TYPO SF conference today with a talk on “The Power of Side Projects and Eccentric Aunts”. Tina’s own eccentric aunt was a designer who introduced her to the very idea that this thing called design was something that one could do for a living. The swiss miss passed down her own sage advice to the full auditorium with a list of 8 principles.
