At TYPO Berlin Konstantin Grcic will be joined in a round-table discussion by another design character. Typographer, font designer and TYPO founder Erik Spiekermann. Along with Mateo Kries, director of the Vitra Design Museum in Weil am Rhein, they’ll explore the “DNA of design” and talk about attitude and ideals in design.
Am Rande der TYPO veranstalten wir unseren 42. CreativeMorning (Donnerstag, 21. Mai, 9 Uhr). Mit über 300 Teilnehmern wird es der bisher größte.
/// As a TYPO sidebar, we’re mounting our 42nd Creative Morning (Thursday, May 21, 9 a.m.). With more than 300 participants, it will be our biggest yet.
Wielding Gestalt laws, horror film, symphonic deletions and moonwalking bears, Ellen Lupton breaks down the concepts of visual thinking and visual storytelling to reveal that they might not be as purely visual as we think.
Showcasing his agency’s colorful work in graphic design, branding, and animated type, Daniel Gjøde reminds us that sometimes, the smartest thing we can do is to stay stupid.
Over the course of his talk, Menno Cruijsen took the audience on a thrilling, whirlwind tour of Lava’s international work. Spawned from a trip around the world twenty five years ago, Lava has transformed from a Dutch design firm rooted in editorial print to a globally recognized agency pushing the boundaries of design.
Wrapping up our blog series, Focus Forum talks this week with Agustin Garza.
Born and raised in Mexico City, Garza is a brand strategist with 25 years of experience in the global marketplace with particular focus on US and Latin America. He is the founder and CEO of Garza Group Communications, with offices in Los Angeles and Mexico City, the company is dedicated to helping clients be understood, remembered, and preferred by their audiences.
Today Focus Forum catches up with creative director, windsurfer, and father: Daniel Gjøde.
Hailing from Copenhagen, Denmark, Daniel founded Stupid Studio in 2006 – an independent digital creative agency set out to do stuff for good companies, who believe they can change stuff to the better, funnier, or simply more comfortable. He’s also a board member of Design Denmark and the Advisory Board of the Danish School of Media & Journalism.
Jen Bilik joins us for this week’s Focus Forum.
The owner and founder of Knock Knock, Jen Bilik has a background in book editing, writing, design, and arts and crafts. Knock Knock’s witty, design-driven books, gifts, and stationery products are sold in 6,000 stores across the United States.
Over the past nine years Tina Roth Eisenberg has turned side projects successfully into companies: her collaborative co-working space called FRIENDS, her simple to-do app called TeuxDeux, Tattly, her designer temporary tattoo shop and her global, monthly lecture series called CreativeMornings. Tina Roth Eisenberg is a New York based, Swiss graphic designer. She is often referred to as Swissmiss after her popular design blog and name of her Twitter handle.
Get into TYPO mood and watch Tina’s opening talk of the TYPO San Francisco 2012 …
Thomas Phinney joins us for this week’s Focus Forum.
Phinney is vice president of FontLab in Portland, Oregon. He is also a freelance type consultant, font detective, and type designer. He previously spent five years at Extensis creating webfonts and font management tools, and over a decade at Adobe as product manager for fonts and global typography.
TYPO Talks takes a few moments each year to chat with some of the speakers you can look forward to at the upcoming conference. We are excited to kick off this year’s blog series, Focus Forum, with designer Mark Simonson.
Mark Simonson is an independent type designer working out of his home in Saint Paul, Minnesota. Over the span of his career he has designed over a dozen typefaces, perhaps most notably the Proxima Nova family.
