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FontShop CEO Jürgen Siebert introduced the London Conference Directors Robin Richmond and Tim Fendley, former founders of MetaDesign in London, with Simone Wolf, who will take the stage as a conference moderator to the audience.

In many ways TYPO is ‘coming home’ to London. Europe’s most successful annual design conference was founded in 1996 from the impetus created by the first two FUSE Conferences in London 1994 and Berlin 1995. The Berlin FUSE conference created the impetus and demand for TYPO and it is fitting that Neville Brody, founder of FUSE, was announced as a speaker for London from the stage. Tim Fendley then followed up with a presentation, voted the fourth best of the “Shift” by conference delegates, on the main stage exploring the work his consultancy, Applied Information Group, had under taken to help people navigate the city of London while walking, through the Legible London initiative.

The Berlin TYPO/Font Shop team led by Berlin Conference Director of Operations, Bernd (Benno) Rudolf, who will oversee the development and smooth implementation of the event, which will run in two adjacent spaces, The Logan Hall and Jeffrey Hall within the Institute of Further Education, Bedford Way, London. Tickets are currently available through the TYPO London website: www.typolondon.com and early bird rates are available for the month of June, so book now to avoid disappointment.

Right to left: Jürgen Siebert, Simone Wolf, Robin Richmond, Tim Fendley

Tim Fendley “People 1.0”

Jürgen Siebert

Marketing Director / Monotype (Berlin)

Born in 1954, Siebert studied physics in Frankfurt. After receiving his degree in 1985, he worked as a science journalist, wrote his first book and moved from Frankfurt to Hamburg. There he co-founded the graphics magazine PAGE in 1986, and ran it as editor-in-chief until 1991, when he moved to Berlin. In Berlin, Siebert initially worked for two years for FSI FontShop International, where he published the first FontFonts, FUSE and the FontBook. In 1993, he took over marketing for FontShop Deutschland and in 1996, organised the first TYPO design conference; he started the Fontblog in 2004, and then in 2011, Creative Morning Berlin, as well as the TYPO offshoots in London and San Francisco. TYPO Days followed a year later. Since the autumn of 2014, he has been responsible for the German-language marketing for Monotype GmbH and initiated TYPO Labs and Brand Days.

Tim Fendley

Tim was the lead-designer of Bristol Legible City and has since developed legible cities for Brighton, Glasgow, Ipswich, Vancouver and Gotham City. He has a passion for cities mapping and a methodology that encompasses diagnostic testing in real situations mixed with product design prototyping techniques. Tim’s recent interest has been to make sense of London, by initiating a project he called Legible London, a capital-wide pedestrian wayfinding system. When complete, it will be the most extensive of its kind.

Simone Wolf

Simone Wolf was born and grew up in Germany. Her studio, Type*s, is in Italy, where she has lived and worked since 2005. Wolf has been working as a marketing expert, consultant and PR agent since 1999 and organizes seminars, conferences and special events. In 2007, she accepted a post at Europe’s oldest university, in Bologna, where she was charged with developing a curriculum in cultural marketing and graphic design. Simone lectures on marketing, event management and intercultural communications at various international universities in Milan and Florence.