TYPO Berlin 2013: todays live streams
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Christian Büning and Jakob Maser of the BDG teamed up to present us with the true facts about design as business. They refresh us with statistics of the eye opening, just published salary report based on a survey where they ask the relevant questions to 793 employed and 743 self-employed designers. The result of many answers this report reveals is shocking!
Anthony Burrill is a self googler, almost musician and all in all remarkable and humbling creative, graphic artist, print-maker and designer. Having created the “work hard and be nice to people” poster that adorns many a design studio, home and pinterest board, it was absolutely terrific to get an insight into his creative journey and process. Via a series of delightful anecdotes, there were tales of his hometown Rye, adventures with letterpress printers around the world, rock and roll, one of the worst hotels in the world, an infamous environmental disaster, and of course how his iconic print came to be.
David Demaree’s talk focussed on the physicality of digital media and the spread of information. He began though by taking us back to the early days of moveable type, explaining how physical barriers limited the scope of how far information could be spread. Factors like distance, time & cost of production and the number of copies of documents restricted people’s access to information.
With the launch of the second volume of typoversity, Andrea and Patrick take the opportunity to open a panel discussion and question Verena Gerlach, Prof. Andrea Tinnes, Jay Reynolds and Christoph Dunst about the future of typography at German universities.
Daniel’s talk about educational computer games for kids was uplifting and passionate. Being an artist as well as a scientist, Daniel is interested in the part both professions have in common: solving the problem.
Rude but exquisitely beautiful. That is what Julie and her work is about.
Mitya is a versatile man as he writes 50% of the magazine’s content but is also in charge of the art direction and the editorial.
Mareike Roth and Oliver Saiz live in a tiny village in the south of Germany. They came and talked to us scientifically, about the importance of emotions within the design community, after all 90% of our decisions are based on emotions.
Professor Reto Wettach of IXDS, together with his colleague Nancy Birkhölzer gave an interesting talk on their perspective of the relationship humans have with the physical and digital world. The talk was largely based around the fact that people are increasingly interacting with the world around them using just a tiny screen and the tips of their fingers. They questioned how much emotion can possibly be expressed through this type of medium and whether or not we need new ways of incorporating technology into our lives which empower us to interact on a more human level.
Touch. A topic that will surely see many speakers refer to the Steve Jobs interpretation of the word over the coming days. Totally to the contrary, Ken Garland kicked off this year’s TYPO conference with an entirely different perspective on “touch”.
TYPO Berlin 2013 is about to start. There are very few tickets left. They can be purchased at the spot. Entry to the fair in the foyer at Haus der Kulturen der Welt and to talks running on TYPO stage is free. Ken Garland opens this years TYPO at 2 pm.