»Handgloves« or »adhesion«, Reading or writing, KABK in The Hague or the University of Reading?

TYPO Berlin 2010 Passion | Friday, 21 May | 2:00 pm | english

Legend has it that the two renowned master’s degree programmes in type design (and their graduates) are rivals. Passionate debates can break out about the best method of drawing an “S”. But is it really true that the schools don’t like each other? Is choosing one or the other really a question of faith? We will look at the distinctive characteristics of the two programmes and the ways in which they differ. The panel exploring those questions and others will include two graduates from each school: Veronika Burian, Christoph Dunst, Laura Meseguer and Dan Reynolds.

Veronika Burian

Veronika Burian

Type Designer (Praha)

Veronika Burian (*1973) studied Industrial Design in Munich and worked in that capacity in Vienna and Milan over a few years. Discovering her true passion for type, she graduated with distinction from the MA in Typeface Design in Reading, UK, in 2003 and worked as type designer at DaltonMaag in…
Laura Meseguer

Laura Meseguer

Laura Meseguer is a type and graphic designer based in Barcelona. She specializes in typographic design and the design of letters, from a monogram to a whole alphabet. She publishes as well as promotes all her type designs through her own type foundry, Type-Ø-Tones. In 2003-2004, she took a year…
Dan Reynolds

Dan Reynolds

Born an American, Dan Reynolds (1979) works in Linotype's font development group, and an instructor at the Hochschule Darmstadt. After his first visit to Mainz, Dan decided to moved to Europe, and has been working with letters ever since. With four other students from the HfG Offenbach, he co-founded the…
Christoph Dunst

Christoph Dunst

Christoph Dunst is a font and graphic designer in Berlin. He has a degree in graphic design and a master’s in typeface design from the Royal Academy of Fine Arts in The Hague. In 2006, he founded Büro Dunst, which focuses on type design and its application in corporate design…

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