Speaker Snapshot: Peter Cho
Entrepreneur and designer Peter Cho represents the best of San Francisco’s design startup culture. We are excited to have Peter speak at TYPO San Francisco!
Entrepreneur and designer Peter Cho represents the best of San Francisco’s design startup culture. We are excited to have Peter speak at TYPO San Francisco!
We are excited to have eclectic designer Morag Myerscough of London’s Supergroup speak at TYPO San Francisco.
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.
Conference Director Robin Richmond sharing deep thoughts with Lawrence Weiner.
Andrew Stevens from the Graphic Thought Facility is introduced by Simone Wolf. She quotes Andrew as saying that commercial doesn’t exist on one side and creativity on the other, it is a framework where they work together.
Lawrence Weiner spent most of his presentation talking about his life and work and also how he didn’t understand why he had been asked to attend the conference. He showed only a 5 minute silent film saying he was too intimidated by the presentations he had seen on Thursday to attempt his own. He is an artist to the core but is in awe of the work of some of the other speakers and once had the revelation “I can be friends with designers”.
Though well known within the industry principally as Founder and Creative Director of the award winning studio Browns, ‘Here and now’ offered an insight into the workings of Jonathan Ellery the artist.
Places are an affair of the heart for London based Morag Myerscough. Over the last decade she has become known as a passionate designer of public space. Starting from exhibition design she went on to injecting colour, pattern and big type into schools, health – or art centres. Morag adds a graphic sense that welcomes visitors and provides orientation and a sense of place. “We sort of infiltrated the architecture scene.” Morag remarks in a recent video interview with Eye magazine and “I want to work for people who are brave and want to try out new things”.
Just two months to go until TYPO London kicks off! We would like to use the remaining time to introduce the speakers and their work. We sent all TYPO London 2011 speakers a questionnaire and got a whole bunch of interesting and charming feedback. Let’s start with… Joachim Sauter.
A discussion with Lawrence Weiner
By Adrian Shaughnessy
Part of the Howard Smith Paper Lecture Series, curated by Browns
Das Ende der TYPO 2011 war für viele wohl auch der Höhepunkt in einem. Christoph Niemann, der „Woody Allen der Grafik“ (Page), hielt einen äußerst unterhaltsamen, humorvollen und selbstironischen Vortrag über seine Arbeiten.
Versetzen wir uns in das Jahr 1984, der erste Apple Macintosh kommt auf den Markt. Die Designer stehen der neuen Technologie noch skeptisch gegenüber. Eine der Pionierinnen der digitalen Revolution, die die gestalterischen Möglichkeiten des Macs voll ausnutzt, ist April Greiman. Sie gilt fortan als eine der einflussreichsten Kommunikationsdesignerinnen auf dem Gebiet der digitalen Medien. Durch ihren Stil wird sie zur Ikone der „California New Wave“ Typografie. Ihre Projekte umfassen heute alle Disziplinen der Gestaltung, von Kommunikationsdesign, Materialien über Architektur bis hin zu Video.