Due to Austria’s surprisingly poor history concerning font designers, it can be taken as an example and used to demonstrate clearly what political conditions and views of the world promote or stand in the way of developing fonts that are suitable for use in body copy. Areas where conflicts are apparent such as hierarchy, religion, the body and physicalness will be discussed at this event.
Martin Tiefenthaler
Graphic Designer (Vienna)
Martin Tiefenthaler is a graphic designer and co-founder of the tga (typographische gesellschaft austria). Since 1998 he has been teaching typography and semiotics at “die Graphische” in Vienna. He is also general manager at Atelier ID IID IIIDesign and and will just recently have completed his first typeface ocr-t. (Photo: Robert…