In this edition of Rhythm Remarks we catch up with Sydney’s Gemma O’Brien. O’Brien is a typographer, hand-letterer, and illustrator who has been on FontShop’s radar since her experimental video in which she covered her body with hand lettering.
Als Global Creative Director bei Etsy in Berlin verantwortet Julia Hoffmann die visuelle Marke international und überall, wo das Unternehmen dem Kunden begegnet. Zuvor war sie als Creative Director des Museum of Modern Art in New York tätig und kümmerte sich als Leiterin der Abteilung Werbung und Grafikdesign um die Markenidentität sowie die grafische Gestaltung von Ausstellungen, Werbung, Ausschilderungs- und Beschriftungssysteme und die Kooperationsprojekte bei Kunstschauen und Programmen des MoMA.
“♫ Keep a rattlesnake as pet… Sell both the kidneys on the internet… Dumb ways to die, so many dumb ways to die… ♫”
Kate Moross presents: The punk rock guide to business! What does the punk approach to work entail? Being good at bullshitting. Or to put it in a less in-your-face way – being adept at the art of improvisation.
You can’t touch this? Und ob – das solltest Du sogar! Die Affaire Paperlux oder doch eine Lovestory?
Rude but exquisitely beautiful. That is what Julie and her work is about.
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.
Christoph Niemann started out his talk on a lovely visual play on how we input our passwords. It was a delightful illustration in a type of wit that only Christoph Niemann seems to possess. So how does he do it? For his talk he began by diving into his process and the life of an illustrator. According to him, it turns out the majority of the day is spent in agony with pockets of joy in getting the initial idea and invoicing.
Als Dozentin an der »Danish School of Media and Journalism« in Kopenhagen begibt sich Julie Katrine Andersen jeden Tag aufs Neue auf die Suche nach Lösungen akademischer Kreativprobleme.
Andreas Uebele (Foto: Jim Rakete) hat 1996 sein eigenes Büro für Visuelle Kommunikation in Stuttgart gegründet. Er ist seit 1998 Professor für visuelle Kommunikation an der Fachhochschule Düsseldorf, seit 2002 Mitglied im Type Directors Club New York und Art Directors Club New York, seit 2007 Mitglied der AGI, Alliance Graphique Internationale.
In 2007, Christian Schwartz was commissioned to create a new typeface for »T«, the New York Times Style Magazine, that would embody the current moment in fashion. In his lecture Schwartz showed how he and Paul Barnes settled on the basic design of the face, discussed how typography influences the personality of a magazine, and explained why not all typefaces have to last forever …
