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.
Armin Vit immediately disarmed his audience as he informed them that his once-censored talk was going to immediately be replaced with a sprinkling of cuss words. Needless to say, he had everyone’s full attention for the remaining 44 minutes.
Erik Kessels’ lecture was incredibly visual, incredibly entertaining, and showed us how to blur the lines between the contrasts that occur daily in the design industry. “Strong ideas allow you to blur.” Starting with a strong idea allows you to cross over into different disciplines. To support this point we had the pleasure of seeing some slides of Erik’s projects including: His print work for various ad campaigns, 3-D type created to promote the city of Amsterdam, commercials, and even art exhibits curated by Erik.
Designer and artist Kelli Anderson creates things for everyday life. Things that people will actually use. For Kelli, it’s not so much the final result. She’s more interested in how people will interact with it. These things ranged from book covers to app logos to maps.
Before I even knew that I was interested in type, I was photographing it. In my travels, I made lots of photographs of walls and textures, and the type subtly creeped in.
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.
A Typo first, Monique Jenkinson and Mica Sigourney presented an insightful and illuminating exploration of performance art and explored the role of drag and community in San Francisco.
Jessi is looking as stunning as she is excited and enthusiastic for her talk! She has embraced her enthusiasm. She owns a design studio, Workshop, with her husband. We begin today by watching a video about an amplifier that takes you from 10 to 11. She shares that Orbicular Oculi is a muscle that involuntarily contracts when you have enthusiasm. And she has her enthusiasm level at 11. She has a colorful personality and uses rainbow colors in everything she is and does. We watch another fun video of her participating in a rainbow parade!
Van Bo Le-Mentzel ist Architekt und Erfinder des One-Sqm-Houses, der Hartz IV Möbel und Herausgeber des gleichnamigen Buches (2012, Hatje Cantz). Außerdem hat mit dem Projekt Karma Chakhs eine neuen Form der Massenproduktion initiiert. Er lebt und arbeitet in Berlin.
Am 24. Februar erscheint „It’s Not Easy Being Green: Two Designers Exploring Sustainability Worldwide“ von Aart van Bezooyen und Paula Raché. Das Buch beruht auf einer sechs-monatigen Recherche über Nachhaltigkeit in Design und Material, die die Autoren nach Brasilien, Argentinien, Chile, Neuseeland, Australien, Indonesien, Thailand, Vietnam, Kambodscha, Singapur, Malaysia und Japan führte. Über 60 Designer, Unternehmern und Weltverbesserern berichten über ihre Projekte und ihre persönlichen Erfahrungen vor ihrem kulturellen Hintergrund, und zeigen Alternativen für eine Zukunft auf, die uns alle betrifft.
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.
