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Inside TYPO | Jürgen, 19 January 2011

Celebrating 15 years of TYPO Berlin moments (2)

Let’s go one year back, FUSE95.

David Berlow (above with the Apple Newton device) did an historical presentation. He came without any slides or JPGs on floppy discs, just plugged in a computer that was connected via modem with an image server in his office at home in Boston … the result was an amazing but very slow presentation in black and white.

Yves Peters was head of the FUSElab during FUSE95; today he is the author of fontfeed.com and a well respected type expert. Believe it or not: You can still see the results of 3 days FUSElab on the FUSE95-website …

Young and cool Tobias Frere-Jones worked as a senior type designer for the Font Bureau in Boston. His designs till 1995 include Dolores (FontFont), Garage Gothic, Nobel, Cafeteria, Reiner Script, Stereo, Interstate, Epitaph, Armada (Font Bureau) and Reactor (FUSE 7). From his CV at that time: „He relaxes by banging on sheet metal with a sledgehammer, and enjoys chewing on styrofoam.”

All images © kassnerfoto.de

David Berlow

David Berlow entered the type industry in 1978 as a letter designer for the respected Mergenthaler, Linotype, Stempel, and Haas typefoundries. He joined the newly formed digital type supplier, Bitstream, Inc. in 1982. After Berlow left Bitstream in 1989, he founded The Font Bureau, Inc. with Roger Black. Font Bureau has developed more than 300 new and revised type designs for The Chicago Tribune, The Wall Street Journal, Entertainment Weekly, Newsweek, Esquire, Rolling Stone, Hewlett Packard and others, with OEM work for Apple Computer Inc. and Microsoft Corporation. The Font Bureau Retail Library consists mostly of original designs and now includes over 500 typefaces. Berlow is a member of the Type Directors Club and the Association Typographique International, and remains active in typeface design.

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Yves Peters

Graphic Designer, Rock Drummer (Ghent, Belgium)

Yves Peters is a graphic designer / rock drummer / father of three who tries to be critical about typography without coming across as a snob. Former editor-in-chief of The FontFeed, he has found a new home on FontShop News. Yves writes about type and talks at conferences. His ability to identify most typefaces on sight is utterly useless in daily life.

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Tobias Frere-Jones

Type Designer (New York)

Over 25 years, Tobias Frere-Jones has established himself as one of the world’s leading typeface designers, creating some of the world’s most widely used typefaces, including Interstate, Poynter Oldstyle, Whitney, Gotham, Surveyor, Tungsten and Retina. Frere-Jones received a BFA in Graphic Design from the Rhode Island School of Design in 1992. He joined the faculty of the Yale University School of Art in 1996 and has lectured throughout the United States, Europe and Australia. His work is in the permanent collections of the Victoria & Albert Museum in London and the Museum of Modern Art in New York. In 2006, The Royal Academy of Visual Arts in The Hague (KABK) awarded him the Gerrit Noordzij Prijs, for his contributions to typographic design, writing and education. In 2013 he received the AIGA Medal, in recognition of exceptional achievements in the field of design. Tobias launched his new type design practice, Frere-Jones Type, in January 2015.

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