Mecanorma was a French company and leading manufacture of instant lettering. The rub down lettering was manufactured by a Dutch company called Polyvroom BV. Around 1985 the company called Trip Productions took over Mecanorma and Polyvroom. In the following years Trip Productions BV developed digital fonts and produced the rub down lettering from Lisse in The Netherlands.

Visit their site for more information.

All Things Considered is a design studio in Melbourne, Australia. Established in 2010 as a collaborative, creative thinking and visual design studio.

http://www.allthingsconsidered.com.au

Indices : Conferences : Ampersand Conference

Ampersand is a conference specifically focussing on web typography. It is held in the Brighton, UK and organised by Clearleft, a web design consultancy based in Brighton.

Ampersand is billed as:

An affordable one-day event for knowledgable web designers & type enthusiasts.

The inaugural event will be held on Friday June 17th in the Brighton Dome Corn Exchange, Brighton, UK.

The line up will be:

• Vincent Connare, creator of Comic Sans
• Jon Tan, web designer at Analog & cofounder of Fontdeck
• Jonathan Hoefler, president of Hoefler & Frere Jones
• David Berlow, type designer & cofounder of The Font Bureau

Dublin Ireland

Holdings include Gaelic woodtype.
http://www.nationalprintmuseum.ie/

Indices : Organizations : Typostammtisch

The word "Typostammtisch" is German, and has no good English translation. Basically, it means "a regular meeting at a bar, during which typography will be discussed." Currently, there are several Typostammtische in Germany.

Indices : Organizations

International Organizations
Alphabetties
Association Typographique Internationale (ATypI)
Society of Typographic Aficionados (SOTA)
Type Directors Club (TDC)
International Society of Typographic Designers (ISTD)(istd.org.uk)
Typophile (Typophile.com)
Icograda
TypeTalks (http://typetalks.com)

American Organizations
American Printing History Association (APHA)
The Typophiles
American Institute of Graphic Arts (AIGA)
Society of Typographic Arts (STA)
Western New York Book Arts Collaborative (WNYBAC)

Austrian Organizations
Typographische Gesellschaft Austria (tga)

Canadian Organizations
Type Club of Toronto

British Organisations
The Typographic Circle
Friends of St Bride Printing Library
Printing Historical Society (PHS)

German Organizations
Schreibwerkstatt Offenbach
Forum Typografie
Typografische Gesellschaft München

Greek Organizations
Greek Font Society

Italian Organizations
AIAP

Japanese Organizations
Tokyo TDC

Brazilian Organizations
ADG Brazil

Portuguese Organizations
Centro Português de Design (CPD)

Turkish Organizations
Turkish Typography Society (TTT) (turkcetipografitoplulugu.org)

Indices : Organizations : Society of Typographic Aficionados (SOTA)

The Society of Typographic Aficionados (SOTA) is an international not-for-profit organization dedicated to the promotion, study, and support of type, its history and development, its use in the world of print and digital imagery, its designers, and its admirers.

Indices : Font Retailers

Font Retailers sell fonts from several, and in some cases, many different foundries. Many foundries also sell their own fonts directly and sometimes in addition to selling through a retailer.

Many of today's font retailers also carry their own font collection, such as Veer's Umbrella Collection, FontShop's FontFont foundry and Phil's Fonts with Garage Fonts. In other scenarios there are large foundries that have spun off a retail arm, such as Bitstream's MyFonts and Monotype's Fonts.com.

Font Bros
FontHaus
FontShop
Fontspring
Fonts.com
MyFonts
Phil's Fonts
T-26
Veer
Village

Indices: Education

Type design (strictly)

• MA Typeface Design
• Type & Media (1-year postgraduate course) at KABK, Den Haag, The Netherlands
  Teachers: Jan Willem Stas, Erik van Blokland, Peter Verheul, Frank Blokland, Petr van Blokland, Françoise Berserik, Peter Bilak, Robin Kinross, Paul van der Laan, Frans van Mourik, Christoph Noordzij, Just van Rossum, Fred Smeijers
  Language: English

Indices : Font Retailers : Veer

Veer provides visual elements for use in professional creative work, such as graphic design, motion design, advertising and filmmaking. Products include stock photography, illustration, maps, typefaces, and unique design-related merchandise. Products are showcased on the website veer.com and in regular direct-mail catalogs.