Joshua Davis’ Social Grid
Joshua Davis came up with a very special idea for his TYPO London talk.
Joshua Davis came up with a very special idea for his TYPO London talk.
Anthony Burrill has gained a following in the design world for his innovative collaborations with friends and fellow artists, designers, print-makers and film-makers.
TYPO London’s facilitator Erik Spiekermann and Phil Baines, professor of typography at Central Saint Martins, invite nine TYPO attendees to follow them on a 2 hour lettering themed bike tour through Bloomsbury on Sunday, October 21st 2012. Get to know their favourite typographic sights: we will be starting at the British Library gates, heading through Bloomsbury (School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine), pass Covent Garden/Trafalgar Square (Coliseum & St Martin’s Schools) and Victoria (New Scotland Yard) and then head north to St Bart’s and Smithfield to end up having a drink there or near King’s Cross.
Entering a visual dialogue with the spectator: the works of London-based A Practice for Everyday Life draw international attention.
Matthew Butterick is a writer, digital type designer and attorney in Los Angeles. At TYPO London, he will be speaking about “Rebuilding the Typographic Society” .
HORT is a Berlin based graphic design studio made up of uniquely selected, creative and spirited people. Throughout its existence Hort has been a constant pioneer in re-inventing the visual language of contemporary graphic design. HORTʼs ongoing experimental enthusiasm inspires budding young designers and has become an influential source amongst contemporaries.
Rick Banks makes books speak. The highly acclaimed Copy Book on how advertisers create texts won him this years D&AD Award. His book design teams up with its reader.
One of the highlights of the second TYPO London conference will be Paula Scher. A Pentagram partner since 1991, Scher’s landmark identity for The Public Theater ‘fused high and low into a wholly new symbology for cultural institutions, and her recent architectural collaborations have re-imagined the urban landscape as a dynamic environment of dimensional graphic design’ (AIGA).
TYPO London facilitator Erik Spiekermann is as passionate about cycling as he is about typography. To recover from the two days of conference turmoil, Erik volunteered to guide a typographic bike tour around London and to show his favorite font spots to TYPO attendants. Stay tuned for further information.
We are often asked how we decide whom to invite to a TYPO conference. The answer is simple: Their work impressed us.
Dividing his time between illustration and design, Rian Hughes has provided design, custom type and illustration for advertising campaigns, CD and record sleeves, book jackets, graphic novels and television.