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.
Nina Stössinger (b. 1978) is a type designer, typographer and code tinkerer from Basel. After publishing her first typeface (FF Ernestine) and five years of running her own graphic design and typography studio, she moved to The Hague for her master’s in type and media. She found it suited her and since graduating, the “Type Designer to watch” (Print Magazine, February 2015) has been living happily in a small house near the sea, nurturing her new studio, Typologic.
In the second part of our Skype interview, Aaron James Draplin talks about which records, books, movies and exhibitions have been inspiring him lately.
Aaron Draplin speaks about his beginnings in the business, his artistic approach, recent works, and his most marked characteristic.
Jon Burgerman on how to get started, where to start and how to get running as an artist, painter, designer and illustrator. And being successful in all. Jon Burgerman will be speaking at TYPO Berlin 2015.
„Viel mehr als einfach nur ein Vortrag“ ist der Titel eines Vortrags über einen Kunden, eine Agentur und einen Grill. Und ein bisschen auch über die Erschaffung der Welt. Zumindest mal die Welt von Weber Grill.
Design duo, Triboro, has purposely kept their team (made up of husband and wife, Stefanie Weigler and David Heasty), small. “The truth is we are control freaks,” Stefanie said before introducing their presentation, Under the Influence, focused on drawing inspiration from New York City, which she calls “a candy store for designers.”
In weltmännischer Manier begrüßte uns Thomas Manss zu seinem Talk: »Willkommen in der Welt der Thomas Manss & Company, wo Designer und Webentwickler so höflich sind wie die Briten, so präzise wie die Deutschen, so flexibel wie die Brasilianer und so präsentabel wie die Italiener.«
Die elektronische Musik und die Kunst haben in der Zeit vom Nachkrieg bis heute eine Tür in eine neue Welt geöffnet, so Schult, durch die wir „vielleicht eine Chance für die Zukunft haben“, und, da ist er optimistisch, „das sieht sehr gut aus“. Das sei wie eine Wurzel, eine „Root“ oder ein Samenkorn, das sich 3D-mäßig entwickelt habe.
All the way from Brooklyn, Deanna Paquette, Digital Director, and Philippe Intraligi, Creative Director at Shutterstock, shared insights about working as in-house designers in such a big organisation.
The first thing we see when designer and type experimentalist Fraser Muggeridge enters the stage is not himself, but his flashing yellow trousers he wears. It’s stated clear: This is going to be raavvvy!
Boris Kochan ist Unternehmer, Büchermacher, Berater und Vorsitz der tgm (Typographische Gesellschaft München). Die tgm wurde 1890 gegründet und viele namhafte Persönlichkeiten der Branche waren in der tgm organisatorisch und/oder inhaltlich aktiv, u.a. Paul Renner, Jan Tschichold, Günter Gerhard Lange, Hans Rudolf Bosshard, Kurt Weidemann.
