Juliette Bellocq of design studio Handbuilt offered a fascinating look at the inspirations and aspirations that drive her work, most importantly artist and designer (and nun) Corita Kent.
After a brief intro to Kent’s art and vision, Juliette provided a kind of conceptual schema for her own design work, breaking it into four categories:
Joshua Davis’ work has a very colorful and energetic look to it, and his lecture style follows suit.
Oliver Reichenstein started his talk by showing the famous Mad Men carousel clip (which you can see here ). Immediately after, he showed the same clip, only it replaced the slide photos with screenshots of the Facebook timeline. It was a clever way to illustrate the stark emotional difference between analog and digital. But why was this the case and where does this need come from? “Is it because Facebook sucks? Because it is badly designed? Because it looks unreal?” We are surrounded with the trend of analog, skeuomorphic design. He argues that such a thing is okay as long as they uphold their promise (he cited the new iPad app, Paper, being a good example).
Educator and design writer Carolina de Bartolo led a workshop on setting body text to perform well under a number of design constraints. The education was aimed at those new to macrotypography, or those just hoping to polish their skills in working with long texts.
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.
Typo kicked off this morning with a buzzing lobby and a packed house, as Facilitators Erik Spiekermann, Jan Abrams, and Kali Nikitas took the stage to introduce our first speaker Tina Roth Eisenberg, swissmiss herself.
