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.
Don’t go chasing waterfalls. Jump ship and work agile. That’s pretty much the crux of what I got from Harry Keller. Harry is a Berlin based web developer and works for Edenspiekermann (Espi). They create and build digital products and services at various scales across multiple disciplines.
When Petr van Blokland started his talk with “designers should code” and “get rid of the old waterfall process” I didn’t expect to hear anything new. But the minute I learned, that by coding, he actually meant programming, he had my attention.
All the way from Brooklyn, Deanna Paquette, Digital Director, and Philippe Intraligi, Creative Director at Shutterstock, shared insights about working as in-house designers in such a big organisation.
In one of the most entertaining talks of the Thursday evening, Vitaly Friedman, the colourful personality behind Smashing Magazine, gave a talk about club entrance rejection stories, ASCII art, teletext, scrum process and web performance. Oh, and he threw orange fluffy balls to the audience. Orange fluffy balls are always an indicator of a good talk.
Web typography has come a long way since the early days of the Internet. The pace of innovation has ebbed and flowed, and according to Elliot Jay Stocks (Creative Director of Adobe Typekit) typography on the web is currently experiencing a relative state of calm. This provides a great place to reflect and build a foundation for the future. And since “web design is 95% typography,” it is critical that we do just that.
Smashing Magazine ist eine sprudelnde Quelle von Antworten. Seit seiner Gründung 2006 gehört die Website zu Deutschlands besucherstärksten Portalen. Mit Nachrichten zu den Themen Webdesign und Webentwicklung erreicht die Know-how-Plattform eine ständig wachsende Gemeinschaft aus Designern, Programmierern und Herausgebern von Webseiten, Blogs, Apps und E-Commerce-Angeboten.
The long que outside a full-to-capacity TYPO Show room was an accurate indication that this talk was a popular one. The topic? “Daunting Digital: A Wake Up Call”, by web developer (and colleague) at Edenspiekermann, Harry Keller.
Mikhail Simakov and Alexey Novichkov shared their experience in developing system of infographics for Russian news agency RIA Novosti and russian newspaper Moskovskiye Novosti.
David Demaree’s talk focussed on the physicality of digital media and the spread of information. He began though by taking us back to the early days of moveable type, explaining how physical barriers limited the scope of how far information could be spread. Factors like distance, time & cost of production and the number of copies of documents restricted people’s access to information.
