Arriving on stage bearing gifts and giant hand-drawn posters, Eike König began with a mesmerizing and rapid-paced video featuring beautiful graphic design – drawings, album covers, editorials, covers – everything you need to be hypnotized into a better design state of mind.
Walking us through her widely diverse array of works, Keetra Dean Dixon delighted and inspired her TYPO audience today. Initially showing some of her past work, her inquisitive nature immediately became evident through her thoughtful, experimental, and sincerely absurd projects, such as The Anonymous Hugging Wall and her Union Sleeve. Keetra then broke up the rest of her presentation into parts titled Thinking Through Making and Making Through Breaking.
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.
What would a city be without the names of its neighborhoods, landmarks, and streets that interconnect all the faces and places living in it? We found some beautifully designed maps that live up to the expression, “A picture is worth a thousand words.”
Touch also means encounter. The next TYPO is therefore happy to announce two forums, which will take a closer look at the trends in Eastern European graphic design in Poland and Russia today.
The Polish design scene is moving fast, and has been increasingly triggering a lot of interest on a global scale. Our Design Special Poland will start on Friday, at noon, on the main hall: Rene Wawrzkiewicz will present ten graphic designers from Poland, who have become internationally famous for their works.
Kate Moross isn’t ashamed to be a child of the MySpace generation. After all, the 26-year-old designer owes much of her success and many of her clients to aptly using the early social networking site. As a “post post punk punk,” the internet helped define Moross’ business focus of “Art + Music + Grrrl.”
Eike König preferred to introduce himself with a colourful media-music show rather than with words. After being run over by an avalanche of his work (all within one minute), he started talking about the actual subject, without showing any more of his projects.
He defined himself as a mix of his empathic mum and his focused, structured dad. They encouraged him to feel responsible to what he does. As a child he was fascinated by political info graphics in magazines. Finding out that graphic designers are creating such powerfully imagery, he decided to become one himself. Another influential part of his work is music.
Anthony Burrill describes himself as a ‘persuasive, up-beat illustrator and designer’. Today at TYPO London, the softly spoken man took us on a fantastic journey through his eclectic career to date; regaling stories of letter-pressing in the “ancient” town of Rye, printing a poster using the crude oil from the disastrous BP spill of 2006 BP and why we should “Work Hard and Be Nice to People”.
Letztes Wochenende wirbelte eine quirlige Amerikanerin über die Bühne der TYPO Berlin und das kann man durchaus wörtlich nehmen. Obwohl sie alles andere als »Made in Germany« ist – trotz deutschem Nachnamens – gehe ich an dieser Stelle mal fremd, denn wir hatten die Möglichkeit mit ihr ein kleines Interview über Design und Verantwortung zu führen.
Last weekend a lively American stirred up the stage of TYPO Berlin, literally said. Despite of her German surname, she is anything but »Made in Germany« but we will make an exception as we had the opportunity to conduct a little interview with her.
Mit ihrem finnischen Charme erobern Christoffer und Kaisa Leika die Bühne und die Besucher der TYPO Show vom ersten Moment an. Er sei der, der gut kocht, sie „die mit den Roboterfüßen“ (Kaisa trägt Beinprothesen). Ihr Vortrag heißt „Sie lügen! Man KANN auch nur Sachen machen, die Spaß bringen!“.
Jessica Hische, self confessed “letterer, illustrator, crazy cat lady and secret web designer” gave an energetic and hilarious talk to a full house last night as the closing speaker at the TYPO Berlin 2012 conference. After three days of stimulating talks, Hische was a fitting conclusion to the conference, entertaining the crowd with her bubbly personality and remarkable insight.
