Lehni’s work is an intersection of computer science, art, and engineering. He is interested in gestures of production and process. He self taught himself programming at a young age, and is interested in using programming to give things behavior and develop intuition while still maintaining control.
Rena opened her talk with, “I love to work but I don’t like to call it work.”
Armin Vit immediately disarmed his audience as he informed them that his once-censored talk was going to immediately be replaced with a sprinkling of cuss words. Needless to say, he had everyone’s full attention for the remaining 44 minutes.
Erik Kessels’ lecture was incredibly visual, incredibly entertaining, and showed us how to blur the lines between the contrasts that occur daily in the design industry. “Strong ideas allow you to blur.” Starting with a strong idea allows you to cross over into different disciplines. To support this point we had the pleasure of seeing some slides of Erik’s projects including: His print work for various ad campaigns, 3-D type created to promote the city of Amsterdam, commercials, and even art exhibits curated by Erik.
Mandy Brown is co-founder and CEO of Editorially, a new platform for collaborative writing and editing She previously served as communications director and product lead at Typekit. But, if you are reading this you probably already knew that …
Tom Manning introduced himself as:
Designer and artist Kelli Anderson creates things for everyday life. Things that people will actually use. For Kelli, it’s not so much the final result. She’s more interested in how people will interact with it. These things ranged from book covers to app logos to maps.
Jeff Veen & Typekit once had three days to solve an eight-week problem. Is that possible? According to Jeff, the answer is yes, yes it is. In his lecture titled “Designing For Disaster” Jeff takes us through his recipe to solve a problem/prepare for future disasters in this chaotic world, and how to recover after the disaster hits.
Before I even knew that I was interested in type, I was photographing it. In my travels, I made lots of photographs of walls and textures, and the type subtly creeped in.
Arriving on stage bearing gifts and giant hand-drawn posters, Eike König began with a mesmerizing and rapid-paced video featuring beautiful graphic design – drawings, album covers, editorials, covers – everything you need to be hypnotized into a better design state of mind.
Stephen begins with the development of his interest in type, “How did I get here?” with the definition of synesthesia: the involuntary tying together of two senses. He then shows a series of type samples and into the microphone produces a series of unusual but fitting sounds. “When I see this, my mind hears this.”
Sean McBride is an engineer and product developer at Typekit, which is to say, he does a little bit of everything. In, “More Than Type,” he reveals how Typekit does a little bit of everything too. In developing a service to license and display fonts on sites for a subscription, Typekit introduced a radical idea: in addition to their fundamental service, Typekit educates its customers about how to get the most out of that service.
