TDC Non-Latin Intensive 2012 - Cyrillic
Type Directors Club has posted an announcement of [[http://www.tdc.org/archives/4147/]TDC Non-Latin Weekends], a series of professional seminars and workshops on non-Latin type design.
The first seminar in the series of four will address the problems related to the design of Cyrillic typefaces. It is scheduled to take place from Friday, March 2 to Sunday, March 4, 2012. Reservations for TDC Cyrillic Week-End are now open. Seating is limited.
The course will be taught by Maxim Zhukov.
A similar series of seminars was offered by the TDC five years ago. Detailed information on TDC Cyrillic Week-End 2007 is available on the Type Directors Club’s Web site. It was also discussed on [[http://typophile.com/node/31986 ]Typophile.com].
Design Legends & Luminaries Slated to Speak at TYPO San Francisco
Design Legends & Luminaries Slated to Speak
at TYPO San Francisco
Contact: Meghan Arnold, sanfrancisco@typotalks.com, +1.415.813.5992
Jessica Hische, Neville Brody, Tina Roth Eisenberg, Michael Bierut and Erik Spiekermann will share a stage April 5-6 at TYPO San Francisco.
With an emphasis on design, society, culture – with a little bit of kerning, TYPO San Francisco, based on one of Europe’s most successful design conferences, will take place at Yerba Buena Center for the Arts (YBCA), centering around the theme Connect.
The two-day conference will feature a diverse array of local and international, creative and inspiring speakers across multiple industries in the Novellus Theater at YBCA, including:
Juliette Bellocq — handbuiltstudio
Michael Bierut — Pentagram
Stan - a contrasted slabserif
De Pinte, Belgium - January 12, 2012
Ten years ago, one would have hardly believed that slab serifs would regain the popularity they enjoy today, or that they would again occupy such a commanding position in the design of advertisements, magazines and newspapers.
The slab serif, as a genre of letter, came into existence in the early nineteenth century. The first slab serifs were crude looking, even grotesque. Their fat, squarish proportions, monoline forms and dark colour served one goal above all: to make a powerful and compelling impression on readers. Like the nearly contemporary sans serif, slab serifs dominated display lettering and typography in the West for much of the nineteenth century.
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FF Ernestine released
At long last, after three years of work, I am extremely happy to announce the release of my first commercial typeface, FF Ernestine, with FontShop International today!
Microsite with typeface showings and further info:
http://ernestinefont.com/
Get the fonts here:
https://www.fontfont.com/fonts/ernestine
This typeface took its first little stumbling steps at the CAS Type Design program in Zurich, as well as right here on Typophile, where Ernestine's own critique thread, started in January 2009, has seen it mature quite a bit.
FontShop Bringing TYPO Conference to SF in 2012
Mark your calendars, FontShop is bringing TYPO to San Francisco in 2012.
There's a TypeCon Brewing in Milwaukee
Brew Town. City of Festivals. German Athens. MKE.
The Society of Typographic Aficionados (SOTA) is pleased to announce that Milwaukee, Wisconsin, will be the host city for TypeCon2012.
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Adobe acquires Typekit!
For those of you who might not be following the Adobe Max conference right now, they announced this morning that Adobe has acquired Typekit!
From Typekit CEO Jeffrey Veen's announcement email:
"Just a few moments ago, Adobe’s CTO Kevin Lynch took the stage at their annual MAX conference and explained the company’s Creative Cloud strategy. Part of that announcement is very big news for us: Typekit has been acquired by Adobe.
We are thrilled. There honestly is no better place for us to continue building our platform. But perhaps even more significantly, this represents a huge step forward in bringing fonts to the web...
Brand new text family exclusively from P22 - Mackinac Pro
P22 type foundry proudly announces P22 Mackinac Pro, a brand new font family designed by Mike Beens for the International House of Fonts.
P22 Mackinac Pro (pronounced Mackinaw) spans four centuries of type design, bridging the Old World with the New. This family of four weights and corresponding italics is of old style construction, with a diagonal weight stress. Contrast between thick & thin is modest and proportioned the same for all fonts. The tall x-height recommends itself to a wide variety of text and display uses; including advertising, publishing, signage and packaging.
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Batch Processing
I am currently considering the idea of cross-branding distribution opportunities with several manufacturers with whom I have OEM deals. As envisioned, I would offer several thematic packages, as well as my entire collection, as add-ons to their product lines.
The fonts in the original OEM packages have customized copyright agreements, identifying the manufacturers as licensed distributors, and also include the manufacturer's logo as a glyph within the fonts included. Ideally, I would like to be able to include the same things in the co-branded fonts. And, ideally, I would like to automate the procedure, since I'm looking at approximately 600-650 fonts in each of several packages.
Typophile will be offline this weekend, starting today at 5pm PST
Esteemed Typophiles,
We're taking the site offline today at 5pm to perform a much-needed server upgrade. Typophile will be down for the duration of the weekend so we can perform all sorts of exotic tests, and we're planning to bring everything back online on Monday, 29 August.
Enjoy your weekend!
//Jared, Joe and Zara
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FYI: Original drawings by Bram de Does for Lexicon (1991)
This may already have been noticed here, but anyway… The University of Amsterdam has some *really high res* scans of BdD’s original designs for TEFF’s Lexicon on its site:
http://dpc.uba.uva.nl/inventarissen/ubainv57
Click on the thumbnail. Enjoy! (And don’t forget to zoom in.)
In case that link does’t work, try this one:
PBS Takes On Typography
A great PBS Arts video primer on typography featuring New York design staples H&FJ and Paula Scher with plenty of Gotham and Public Theater posters for good measure.
Groovy type
Starting on my text face with Mark van Bronkhorst a couple weeks back I began by drawing a demibold and derived an ultralight from it, keeping the point structures compatible. My ultralight looked great & spaced fine on screen, but after the first test print I was scratching my head. David: "Yeah, the lighter weight looks much too big compared to the heavier weight at the same size. I get that." Pause. "But why... um. Why does it look like something Herb Lubalin drew?"
Mark: "Oh it's looking groovy?" I walk from the printer over to Mark thinking 'Is groovy some kind of precise typographic term I'm unfamiliar with?' Mark after seeing it: "Yeah, it's pretty groovy."
New script font
Hi. I'm working on this new font - it's a kind of hybrid between a baseball script and a formal roundhand kind of script, or at least that's how it started. It's taken on a life of its own since then. Anyway, I've just got round to drawing the Icelandic characters eth and thorn. What I want to know is: Is it ok for the crossbar of eth to be extended from th top of the stem in a loop? Had a quick look at other script fonts on MyFonts and found none that treated the eth this way. If there are any Icelandic Typophiles out there, it'd be good to get your opinion. As for the thorn, I'm thinking it looks way to much like a ß because of the loop (which comes from making it out of a b and p). Accents are missing from the text string below because I've not made them yet.
St Bride Library's "Forthcoming courses in the Print Workshop"
As many of you know, our newly established print workshop has been running very successfully for six months now.
We have new workshops being added all the time, so do let us know if you’d like to sign up to receive updates or book a place on any of the courses we are running.
At the moment we are excited to have a growing list of upcoming events planned, so here’s a quick summary of what we are up to. (More details on each of the courses can be found on the Print Workshop website: http://printworkshop.stbridefoundation.org/)
More classes in bookbinding and calligraphy are soon to be added to the list!
Summer school - Three full days of intensive letterpress learning
11, 12 and 13 July
18, 19 and 20 July
Sessions run 11:00am–6:00pm (lunch break 1.00–2.00pm)
ISType 2011, September 11-14, 2011
Come and join ISType 2011 in Istanbul! September 11-14, 2011
We are pleased to announce that ISType.com is launched and works fine on iPhone and Android as well.
ISType (Istanbul Type Seminars), conceived by Onur Yazıcıgil (Sabancı University) and Alessandro Segalini (Izmir University of Economics), is a lecture and workshop series devoted to encouraging typographic literacy in Turkey.
Read moreATypI and SoTA members get 15 percent discount on conference fees
ATypI and SoTA (TypeCon) will be offering each others members a 15% discount on conference fees*.
Both organizations are very pleased to offer this new benefit their members.
Members will receive an email telling them how to take advantage of this offer soon.
If you are not a member of ATypI or SoTA you may want to join or re-join now to take advantage of this new benefit.
ATypI and SoTA hope that this discount will further promote relationships, dialog and education about type and typography.
*Note: The 15% discount applies to conference registration, but not to individual classes, hotels or airfare etc.
TypeCon 2011
So who's headed to TypeCon? They've just posted their schedule for the 5-day typography extravaganza taking place in New Orleans, July 5-10. If you've never gone, TypeCon is a blast and very inspiring. Half the fun is meeting up with people you're interacting with daily on Typophile. You'll be glad you went! Full details here: http://www.typecon.com/program.
Which speaker/event are you most looking forward to?
Registration for this year's ATypI is conference in open!
Registration for this year's ATypI is conference in open! http://www.atypi.org/store
This year's ATypI conference will take place in Reykjavík, Iceland, from 14 to 18 September 2011 (Wednesday to Sunday) at the new Harpa Concert Hall, situated by the old harbour in the city centre.
Day 1 Wednesday, September 14
Registration includes your choice of individually priced half-day Workshop sessions, refreshment breaks, lunch, as well as a Conference T-shirt.
Day 2 Thursday, September 15
Registration includes your choice of 2 tracks of sessions, refreshment breaks, lunch, as well as a Conference T-shirt.
Days 3-5 Friday-Sunday, September 16-18
Intel-native FontLab Studio 5.1 for Mac to arrive in July 2011
We are pleased to announce that Fontlab Ltd. will release an Intel-native FontLab Studio 5.1 for Mac OS X in July 2011. Currently, the application is undergoing internal testing, and beta versions will be issued to selected testers within the next week.
FontLab Studio 5.1 will be mainly a bugfix release and will be available free of charge to all users of FontLab Studio 5. It will not introduce new features but because it's Intel-native, users on Intel Macs will experience a significant increase in speed (up to 2.5x faster) and stability. Users who upgrade to Mac OS X 10.7 Lion will secure an uninterrupted workflow.
Donate Your Typographic Treasures to SOTA's Silent Auction
Once again, the Society of Typographic Aficionados will be holding a silent auction during TypeCon to raise funds for their educational activities. If you have any typographic trinkets, knickknacks, bibelots, ornaments, baubles, objet d’art, collector’s items, rarities, curiosities, oddities, kickshaws, or tchotchkes that you’re willing to part with … donate them to this year’s silent auction. Share your exceptional taste with other type fiends, clear space on your shelves so you can buy new collectable, and above all … help support a great cause.
Since SOTA is a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization, your donations are tax-deductible, as well.
Read moreType Masters Week NYC June 6-10, 2011 brought to you by the Type Directors Club and Font Bureau
The Type Directors Club http://tdc.org/ is proud to announce, from June 6th to June 10th, the Type Masters Week in New York City. By celebrating 65 years of typographic excellence, the Type Directors Club will be offering the unique opportunity for you to participate in one day workshops with the Masters; Erik Spiekermann, Cyrus Highsmith, Ale Paul, and Luc(as) de Groot.
Four One Day Workshops, 8:30am – 4:00pm
The following workshops will take place at Type Directors Club, 347 West 36th Street, Suite 603, New York, NY 10018.
What makes a good typeface?
Erik Spiekermann, Tues. June 7
http://tdc.org/tdc/archives/3492
Thinking in Contours
Cyrus Highsmith, Wed. June 8
http://tdc.org/tdc/archives/3487
Lettering for the masses
Read more2011 SOTA Catalyst Award Winner Announced
The Society of Typographic Aficionados (SOTA) has announced that Erin McLaughlin of New York, NY, will be the recipient of the 2011 SOTA Catalyst Award. The award was created by SOTA in 2010 to recognize a person thirty years of age or younger who demonstrates significant achievement and future promise in the field of typography. Erin will present her work and receive the award at TypeCon2011: Surge, taking place in New Orleans, July 5th–10th.
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ATypI talk proposal deadline April 30
Only 6 days left for talk submissions for the ATypI conference in Iceland in September!
Typography Insturctors: A Modest Proposal
I am currently—and rather slowly—in the process of updating the entire Nick’s Fonts library of fonts in anticipation of packaging them in thematic collections and one whole-shebang package. The entire collection represents twelve years of work, with 530+ font families and over 600 fonts. In order to make the packages more navigable for end users, I would very much like to produce accompanying documents classifying the fonts according to style, weight, historical period, attitude and the like. Unfortunately, the exigencies of production (as it were) leave me with little time (or energy) to do the necessary heavy lifting.
