Michael Bierut: Learning the Slow Way
Here are seven lessons Michael Bierut of Pentagram would like us to know, lest we repeat—or, worse, improve upon—his mistakes.
Here are seven lessons Michael Bierut of Pentagram would like us to know, lest we repeat—or, worse, improve upon—his mistakes.
Sean McBride is one of the engineer-cum-designers working at Adobe’s Typekit, one of the major web font hosting services. Today he shared his insights into the current renaissance in web typography—which, if you’ve been living under a rock, is due to the now much-wider range of fonts available to web developers via the @font-face CSS spec.
With a title like that there was a mixed crowd that attended Hugo Puttaert’s presentation today. There were the people that already knew who he was. The rest, including me and the group I was with, were pulled in by the subtext of “the five armed guitar”.
Subtitled Music Matters: Graphic Design, Typography, and the Art of the Poster, this talk featured a conversation between designers Jason Munn, Parra, and curator Joseph Becker. Munn and Parra are two radically different designers who often approach the same problem—how to translate music into words and images in show posters and tour merchandise—from opposite ends of the spectrum.
When you spend 30 months designing an e-book platform like Peter Cho, you learn a few things.
Eva-Lotta Lamm is funny. She kicked off her talk on sketchnotes by declaring her love for the Pixies. She also doesn’t cook but makes great salads, doesn’t drive a car, and loves fresh fruit with yogurt and muesli for breakfast.
Kutlu Çanlıoğlu, Senior Creative Director for the BBC World Service, gave a detailed analysis of the process he went through in helping to create a Global Experience Language (GEL) for their news websites, which reach 180 million people each week, in 27 languages and 9 scripts.
Dr. Michael B. Johnson captivated audiences at TYPO Berlin, and we are excited to have him speak at TYPO San Francisco!
Der österreichische Designer und mehrfache TYPO-Berlin-Sprecher Markus Hanzer ist wahrscheinlich der erste professionelle Gestalter, der mit der neuen Macintosh-Software iBooks Author ein Buch erstellt und herausgegeben hat – gerade einmal 2 Wochen nachdem die Apple das das neue Authoring Tool vorgestellt hat …
Als Einstimmung auf die TYPO Berlin 2012 aus dem Videoarchiv gekramt:
A day with with Michael B Johnson from pixar studios, Joachim Sauter from Art+Com, Gary Hustwit, Tim Fendley, Lawrence Weiner, UX designer Tom Uglow, Susana Rodríguez de Tembleque and Design icon Neville Brody.