Congratulations to our contest winner of week 9 (see all entries of contest week 9 here). He/she has won one ticket for TYPO London, this photo was drawn by our random generator from 65 entries. Our contest will run until Sunday October, 16th – so you have another 3 (THREE) chances to win a ticket for TYPO London!
“I spend a lot of time trying to figure out who I am, what I am about, where I came from and where I am headed. Looking at my own work, I engage in self analysis as I follow the threads of influence, to discover what is worthwhile, what is sustainably interesting, and how to evolve into my imagined future.” Marian Bantjes at TYPO Berlin 2008.
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Karin von Ompteda explores type – and she is an expert on designing typefaces for the visually impaired. Karin is currently researching for a PhD at the Royal College of Art in London, where her work is focused on integrating scientific and design approaches to typeface legibility. When she changed to art school after two biology degrees in her home country of Canada, she followed her heart. However her approach to type, its shapes and structures has roots in her biological background.
Congratulations to Bart, our contest winner of week 8 (see all entries of contest week 8 here). He has won one TYPO London ticket, his photo was drawn by our random generator from 18 entries. It shows, how the Belgian authorities try to calm down traffic the humorous way.
We have a new group discount for TYPO London Tickets! Find up to 5 people who want to go to TYPO London & get a 10% discount for every registration you have recruited. Every friends registration gets a 10% discount too. So if you find 5 people, you can lower your ticket price down to 50%! Now that’s a deal.
Last week, Matthew received the National Design Award of the United States. We take the opportunity to show Matthew’s speech at TYPO Berlin 2004.
Marina Willer is an expert in placing new brands or creating new identities in challenging markets and has masterminded international branding campaigns for a decade. She is a Brazilian graphic designer, creative director and movie director living in London. Working for Wolff Olins, she became notable as a brand consultant and creative director. Her distinguished works include the branding campaigns for Beeline telecommunications in Russia, Oi telecommunications in Brazil, the Southbank Centre and Tate Gallery in London and Amnesty International worldwide.
Congratulations to Rose, our contest winner of week 7 (see all entries of contest week 7 here). She has won one TYPO London ticket, her photo was drawn by our random generator from 58 entries. Ware liefde means “true love” in Dutch.
Joachim Sauter co-founded Art+Com in the mid eighties in Berlin. The company evolved from an interdisciplinary group of designers, architects and artists from the Berlin University of the Arts as well as hackers from the ChaosComputerClub. The group used the upcoming digital technology not only as a tool, but potential (mass) medium. Founded as an non-profit organisation to explore the new medium’s possibilities for art, design, science and technology, Art+Com did not commence commercial projects not before the mid 1990s.
Good news, especially for students! FontFont – the font developers from Berlin founded by Neville Brody and Erik Spiekermann in 1990 – are sponsoring another 20 student tickets. That’s fantastic news for students away on the long summer recess, who may have missed the popportunity to register!
Congratulations to Cindy – our contest winner of week 6 (see all entries of contest week 5 here). She has won a TYPO London ticket, her photo was drawn by our random generator from 63 entries. It shows beautifully, how to queue for a taxi in Madrid.
The only time a TYPO speech began with “Hello you motherfuckers! You bunch of wankers! You ‘ve got small penises and fat arses!” was at TYPO 2008, “Image”
Thus having tested how polite the translaters were, Barnbrook guided us through the pulsating universe of his type designs, his faces ranging from Apocalypso to Tourette, altogether 109 specimen. He stressed that although his fonts tend to display abstract letter shapes, they are highly representational of our social and political surroundings. We learned that calling a font after a serial killer can be bad for one’s image and why it is that drawing typefaces is crucial to characterize the epoch in which one lives.
Do we need agitated fonts in unstable times? Attend TYPO London 2011 and find out!
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