Eike Dingler: Letters of Patterns
A fascinating journey into generative type design with Eike Dingler. Building letterforms by filling geometric shapes with geometric patterns.
A fascinating journey into generative type design with Eike Dingler. Building letterforms by filling geometric shapes with geometric patterns.
Nina Stössinger talked about her adventures designing a text typeface with a reversed contrast. Showing exciting historical examples and original experiments, she enlightened the audience about the respective roles of horizontal and vertical elements in letterforms.
A charismatic Lucas de Groot took the audience on a ride through his typographic universe, showing a lot of character as well as many many characters.
Collaborating from different locations around the globe, Veronika and José delivered a specialized talk at TYPO Berlin 2015 where they disclose the benefits of custom Typography, while providing case studies and guidelines to help you find the right typeface for a job.
Peter Bil’ak has been a warmly welcomed guest at TYPO Berlin for many years. In this year’s presentation, he examines a rather unpopularly handled topic in the type industry: font licensing, and how we can get it out of its messy state.
In the Type Lab, Georg Seifert gives a brief introduction on how to create Apple Color Fonts with his type software Glyphs.
Im Alltag sind wir permanent von Schrift umgeben. Trotzdem sehen die meisten Menschen die Schriften gar nicht. Wie Jean François Porchez das scheinbar Unsichtbare greifbar macht, erklärt er unter anderem anhand seiner Schriftfamilien für die Métro Paris, Nespresso und Louis Vuitton.
On designing the cryptic cyrillic “K”. In her workshop, Gayaneh Bagdasaryan revealed her approach to design one of the most confusing Cyrillic letters.
Gayaneh Bagdasaryan shared her experience in creating Cyrillic and Latin typefaces and warned the audience about common pitfalls of designing Cyrillic type. Explaining her design methods, Gayaneh lets us peek into the kitchen of her type foundry Brownfox.
At the end of January, two juries from the type directors club in New York singled out the year’s best typography work for the 61st time. The prizes are given for typographic design – new fonts – as well as for their application, whether in books, posters, packaging, corporate design or in digital form. The work of the TDC competition winners will be seen in Europe for the first time in a three-week exhibition starting May 24, 2015, at Berlin’s Aufbau Haus artists’ complex.
Thomas Phinney is the Sherlock Holmes of the design world. His use of logic, extensive typography knowledge, history of ancient typographical machines and their uses are no match for any expert forger. Not even the government. Thomas Phinney talks about his three favorite font detective cases; the California frontier mailbag, a fake rabbi, and falsified memos from the Bush Administration’s National Guard Service.
Sumner Stone’s talk about the evolution of letters from basic human forms was part history lesson part performance. Various props accompanied Stone on his journey through time and the audience was left feeling a profound fondness for both Stone and letterforms.