Offbeat(*) speaker Peter Gregson came to talk about his project ‘The Listening Machine‘, a sonification of the continuous stream of tweets by 500 selected UK twitter users. Composer Gregson created the piece together with collaborator Daniel Jones and Britten Sinfonia. It’s an unexpected talk at a design conference, but it did tie in nicely to the social theme of the conference.
Talking about her influences such as political activism as well as feminism she quotes Woody Allen, who describes work as ‘a quality distraction’. A portrait of Allen on her desk inspires her to follow this approach.
Sara de Bondt is a Belgian graphic designer based in London. Her talk at TYPO was divided into three sections:
To kick off the TYPO London program in Jeffrey Hall, facilitator Simone Wolf introduced Visual Editions‘ Anna Gerber and Britt Iversen as pair that likes “working with talented people and being told something is impossible.”
Anthony Burrill describes himself as a ‘persuasive, up-beat illustrator and designer’. Today at TYPO London, the softly spoken man took us on a fantastic journey through his eclectic career to date; regaling stories of letter-pressing in the “ancient” town of Rye, printing a poster using the crude oil from the disastrous BP spill of 2006 BP and why we should “Work Hard and Be Nice to People”.
Mit ihrem finnischen Charme erobern Christoffer und Kaisa Leika die Bühne und die Besucher der TYPO Show vom ersten Moment an. Er sei der, der gut kocht, sie „die mit den Roboterfüßen“ (Kaisa trägt Beinprothesen). Ihr Vortrag heißt „Sie lügen! Man KANN auch nur Sachen machen, die Spaß bringen!“.
Jessica Hische, self confessed “letterer, illustrator, crazy cat lady and secret web designer” gave an energetic and hilarious talk to a full house last night as the closing speaker at the TYPO Berlin 2012 conference. After three days of stimulating talks, Hische was a fitting conclusion to the conference, entertaining the crowd with her bubbly personality and remarkable insight.
Let’s face the ugly truth: Typography on the web is still in an awful state. There may be countless positive things to be said about the internet, but fine typography is definitely not among them. In his talk on Friday, Matthew Butterick blamed this on low expectations: While most web developers (excuse the generalization) don’t care about good typography, most web designers have grown up with just a handful of fonts to choose from and still decide to stick to them. Consequently end users are accustomed to seeing bland, standard typefaces.
Kann gutes Design uns aus der ökologischen, finanziellen, emotionalen und sonstigen Krise führen? Petz Scholtus aus Barcelona begreift sich als Öko-Designerin und verweist einleitend auf die 10 Prinzipien von Dieter Rams aus den 70ern, um kurz darauf auf die Knappheit unserer Ressourcen zu verweisen und festzustellen: „good design is complicated“. Was für ein Ritt. Sie spricht schnell und hat die TYPO Hall auch schnell auf ihrer Seite.
Die TYPO Show widmete sich in den letzten drei Vorträgen der Konferenz den nicht-lateinischen Schriftsystemen, beginnend mit Susanne Zippel. Sie lernte Japanisch und Chinesisch und lebte zehn Jahre in China. Auf der TYPO versuchte sie nun, uns die Grundzüge des Chinesischen zu erklären. Sie studierte Kommunikationsdesign in Berlin.
Das Japanische ist Thema in Shoko Mugikuras Vortrag, sie ist Japanerin, hat zuerst Buchgestaltung in Tokyo und dann in England studiert.
Die libanesische Schrift-Designerin Nadine Chahine studierte Schrift-Design an der Universität Reading (UK).
