Having just designed Georgia and Verdana for Microsoft, Matthew Carter quoted Theodore Law de Vinne’s statement “Type-making does not tell it’s story – it hides it’s methods”. Then he took us on an inspiring journey of material and making and how to sustain in changing technologies.

Matthew Carter

Matthew Carter is a type designer with more than forty years’ experience of typographic technologies ranging from hand-cut punches to computer fonts. After a long association with the Linotype companies he was a co-founder in 1981 of Bitstream Inc., the digital typefoundry, where he worked for ten years. He is now a principal of Carter & Cone Type Inc., in Cambridge, Massachusetts, designers and producers of original typefaces.

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Matthew started his search back in the 8th century: The only difference between to cathedrals build from the same materials, one with fine ornaments and one without, is of theological nature. Grazing glass architecture and metal sculpturing Matthew’s speech circled around three basic questions: what is design? what is material? and what is the making aspect of design?

How do we produce design in an environment with continuing technical change? Come to TYPO London “Places” 2011 and find out!

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