Der nächste TYPO Day findet am 22. Juni im Kino- und Vortragssaal des MMK in Frankfurt statt (Foto: MMK)
Das Museum für Moderne Kunst, MMK Frankfurt, eröffnet 1991, gehört zu den weltweit bedeutendsten Museen für Gegenwartskunst und hat bereits jetzt seinen festen Platz in der internationalen Museumslandschaft eingenommen. Parallel dazu wurde es zu einem wichtigen Anlaufpunkt des kulturellen und gesellschaftlichen Lebens in Frankfurt. Wegen der Dreiecksform wird das postmoderne Gebäude von Hans Hollein auch »Tortenstück« genannt. Genau in dessen Spitze befindet sich der komfortabel ausgestattete Vortragssaal für den TYPO Day Frankfurt.
Art Historian, Information Architect, Type Designer, Author (Berlin, San Francisco, London)
Erik Spiekermann is information architect, type designer and author. Two of his typefaces, FF Meta and ITC Officina, are considered to be modern classics. He founded MetaDesign (1979) and FontShop (1988). He is behind the design of well-know brands such as Audi, Bosch, VW, German Railways and Heidelberg Printing, among others; information systems for Berlin Transit and Düsseldorf Airport and for publications like The Economist. He designed exclusive typefaces for corporations like Deutsche Bahn, Bosch, ZDF (German TV), Cisco, Mozilla and many others.
Erik is Honorary Professor at the University of the Arts in Bremen and in 2003 received the Gerrit Noordzij Award from the Royal Academy in The Hague. In 2006 he was awarded an honorary doctorship from Pasadena Art Center. He was made an Honorary Royal Designer for Industry by the RSA in Britain in 2007 and Ambassador for the European Year of Creativity and Innovation by the European Union for 2009.
In 2011 he received the German National Design Award for Lifetime Achievement and the TDC Medal as well as a Lifetime Award from the German Art Directors Club.
He was managing partner and creative director of Edenspiekermann with offices in Berlin, Amsterdam, San Francisco and Los Angeles until June 2014 when he moved from that position to the supervisory board. He now runs galerie p98a, an experimental letterpress workshop in Berlin. Erik splits his time between Berlin and San Francisco and London, where his son Dylan lives.
A book about his life and work “Hello I am Erik” was published by Gestalten Verlag in 2014.
Photo: Dennis Letbetter
Typographer, Professor for Typography at HBK Saar (Saarbrücken)
Indra Kupferschmid is a freelance typographer and professor at HBKsaar, University of Arts Saarbrücken. Fueled by specimen books, she is occupied with type around the clock in all its incarnations – webfonts, bitmap fonts, other fonts, type history, DIN committees, writing, design work, and any combination of this. She is co-author of Helvetica Forever by Lars Müller Publishers and wrote Buchstaben kommen selten allein, a typographic reference book (Niggli). She consults for the type and design industry and other clients who need help choosing fonts, as well as writing for several different magazines and blogs.
Typesetter, Communication Designer, Founder (Germany)
Rolf Mehnert, a trained typesetter, studied communication design in San Francisco and Wiesbaden. Co-founder and member of the board of Fuenfwerken Design, graduate (MBA Business Design) of Zollverein School of Management and Design, and member of the German Designer Club (DDC). His focus is on corporate design, establishing brands and business design, with particular attention for authenticity, presentation and communication.
Andrea Tinnes is a font and graphic designer living and working in Berlin. The emphasis of her work is font design and typography for cultural projects. In 2004, she founded her own font label “typecuts”. Since 2004, Tinnes has been a guest lecturer in typography at Norway’s Bergen National Academy of the Arts. In 2008, she also took on a professorship for fonts and typography at the Burg Giebichenstein University of Art and Design in Halle.
Ivo Gabrowitsch is an eCommerce Marketing Director at Monotype and is responsible for FontShop,
Linotype, and
FontExplorerX.com. He also directed marketing activities for FontFont and FontShop before FontShop International was acquired. After having worked for several years as a media designer on different print and non-print projects, he attended the Beuth University of Applied Sciences in Berlin, where he was awarded a Graduate Degree in Print and Media Engineering. In 2006, he founded “Typostammtisch”, the regular typography meet-up in Berlin.
Photo: Norman Posselt
Font Designer, Font Technologist (Berlin)
Ever since Jens got his first computer in the late 80s, he has been interested in combining design with technology. Jens has a degree in Graphic Design from the Hochschule für Bildende Künste Braunschweig, and has joined the FontFont Type Department in 2007, where he polishes and tweaks the fonts until they are ready for release. He spends a considerable amount of his time programming little helper tools for font production. In 2015, his first serious type design, FF Hertz, was released.
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.
TYPO Day ist das Font-Technik-Tagesseminar für Verlage, Designer, Werbeagenturen und Auftraggeber. Wir beginnen um 9:00 Uhr und enden gegen 17:30 Uhr mit einem Überraschungstalk. Die Referenten: Erik Spiekermann, Indra Kupferschmid, Rolf Mehnert, Andrea Tinnes, Ivo Gabrowitsch, Jens Kutilek und Jürgen Siebert (Moderation).
Prof. Indra Kupferschmid hat tausende Schriften verglichen und systematisiert. Auf dem TYPO Day gibt sie wertvolle Tipps zur Schriftwahl, zur Schrift-Kombination und zu unentdeckten Alternativen (TYPO Day Hamburg, Foto: Robert Schatton)Die Themen der TYPO-Day-Referate sind geprägt von den aktuellen Entwicklungen im Print-, Web- und App-Design. Wir sprechen über die konsistente typografische Ausstattung aller Kommunikationskanäle eines Unternehmens, über neue Entwicklungen auf dem Gebiet der digitalen Schriftdarstellung, über die Bedeutung von Typografie in Apps sowie das Zusammenspiel mit Webinhalten, aber auch darüber, wie sich Designer und Auftraggeber besser verstehen, um schnell ein bestmögliches Ergebnis zu erzielen.
Erik Spiekermann beleuchtet die Rolle der Schrift in der Markenkommunikation mit alten und neuen Beispielen aus der Praxis (TYPO Day Hamburg, Foto: Robert Schatton)
TYPO-Day-Frühbucher sind klar im Vorteil, nicht nur weil die Veranstaltung auf 100 Plätze limitiert ist: bis 15. Mai 2012 kostet ein Ticket nur 245 € statt 295 €. Weitere Informationen und direkt zur Online-Anmeldung …
