After a wonderful career as a dishwasher, assistant cook, some kind of designer, and last but not least a type designer, Donald Roos is now one of the CEOs of VetteLetters. VetteLetters is the tastiest font foundry in the universe! Donald enjoys working together with the other Donald (also CEO of VetteLetters).
Istanbul-based visual communication & type designer Christopher Çolak is currently working as an art director.
Jörg Becker ist ein »Visual Communicator«. Sein besonderes Interesse gilt der Kreativität, Typografie, Soziologie, Rhetorik und Kommunikationswissenschaft. Der Inhaber eines deutschen Diploms in visueller Kommunikation und eines niederländischen MFA für Grafikdesign lehrt Buchgestaltung, Kreatives Handeln, Typografie, visuelle Rhetorik und die psychologischen Grundlagen der Gestaltung, unter anderem an der University of Illinois in Chicago, USA.
Rathna Ramanathan is a practising designer and tutor from Chennai, India now based in London. Rathna is the Head of Design & Interaction on the BA (Hons) Graphic Design course at Central St Martins, London and has her own design studio minus9 Design.
Six years ago Yves Peters started reviewing type in his Bald Condensed column on Typographer.org. In 2008 he put his graphic design career on the back burner, freeing him to concentrate on his writing and related activities in the digital type business. Yves currently edits: The FontFeed, a daily dispatch of recommended fonts, typography techniques, and Unzipped, his blog on the FontShop BeNeLux home page.
Der Schweizer Oliver Reichenstein lebt seit 2003 in Japan. Dort gründete er Information Architects. Oliver Reichenstein arbeitete u.a. am Redesign von Tagesanzeiger, Krone.at und ZEIT ONLINE. Auf der TYPO spricht er am ersten Konferenztag in der TYPOhall zum Thema „Gestalten und Gestaltung der neuen Informationsmacht“.
French graphic and typographic designer Pierre Di Sciullo works in various media on the links between voice, letters, body and space. He has created numerous typefaces: the Minimum, the Maximum, the Quantange, the Basnoda, the Sintétik, the Gararond and the Amanar, digital fonts in the Tuareg writing system. He expanded to work with scenographers and architects. Whether in wood, metal or glass, he likes things written large!
Five short questions for Robin Kinross, proprietor of Hyphen Press. Robin learned typography at the University of Reading in the 1970s. In 1980 he started Hyphen Press to reissue Norman Potter’s book »What is a designer«. In the 1980s and 1990s he was mainly active as a writer. Since then he has concentrated on working as editor and publisher with Hyphen Press. Robin´s Talk is on Saturday at 11 AM at the TYPOhall.
Today: Kris Sowersby. Kris runs the Klim Type Foundry, Wellington, New Zealand. His typefaces combine historical knowledge with contemporary craftmanship and finish. In 2010 Sowersby was named an ADC Young Gun.
Just two weeks to go until this year’s TYPO kicks off! We would like to use the remaining time to introduce the speakers and their work. We sent all TYPO Berlin 2011 speakers a questionnaire – not the one Marcel Proust had to fill out not once but twice in his lifetime, just six short questions! – and got a whole bunch of interesting and charming feedback. Let’s start with … Peter Bil’ak.
Nur noch knapp zwei Wochen bis zur TYPO! Wir nutzen die verbleibende Zeit und stellen täglich die Sprecher und Ihre Arbeit vor. Wir haben allen Sprechern einen Fragebogen geschickt, es ist nicht der Fragebogen, den Marcel Proust in seinem Leben gleich zweimal ausfüllte, es sind nur sechs kurze Fragen, auf die wir interessante, charmante, aber auch sehr eigene Antworten bekommen haben. Den Anfang macht Martin Tiefenthaler, der am Freitag um 16 Uhr auf der Stage zu erleben ist.