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Post-graduate courses in typeface design and research
Applications for the next group at ANRT Nancy is open until June 30. One can apply with their own design or research topic or pick one of the proposed ones. No tuition fee and one even receives a €4000 research grant for the 18 months. Also open for applications, until June 15, is the post-graduate […]
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Wagner & Schmidt, etc.
1. Wagner & Schmidt (1887–1942) · founded 1887 in Leipzig by Ludwig Wagner and Robert Arthur Schmidt · punchcutting and engraving business · specialized in delivering matrices to foundries all across Europe · Ludwig Wagner leaves company in 1902 to buy Leipzig foundry Gundelach & Ebersbach (specialized in spacing material) · Robert Arthur Schmidt leaves 1932, […]
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So many good webfonts!
Why limit yourself to just the same few over and over? The other day, an article was posted on A List Apart entitled “The Rich (Typefaces) Get Richer” (thanks Roel for showing me). I’m too much of a Sozialdemokrat to want this to happen; I’m a proponent of fitting font diversity (who is alas traveling […]
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Some type genres explained
I originally put together this classification for Typedia in early 2012 (before development of a new version of the site was stopped). It was meant to be practical rather than historically waterproof, hopefully not too sophisticated for newbies but with enough groups to aid adding typefaces to the database, and also helping with typeface selection and […]
The responsibilities of the graphic designer
In the 1980s Nick Shinn attended a talk by F. H. K. Henrion in which the latter listed the responsibilities of a graphic designer as something like this: · Do original work, to a high standard of quality · Educate the next generation of designers · Organize one’s peers (industry bodies, trade shows, conferences) · Promote the […]
Typo 9010
First impression: Oh nice, it’s so light weight and soft! (Second impression: Mhh…) Third: Oh wow, so many typefaces, so many interesting people! Gotta flip deeper now, more impressions to come.
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The Pyte Foundry
Dies verspricht ein interessantes Projekt zu werden: Ellmer Stefan veröffentlicht jeden Montag in 2016 eine neue Display-Schrift, die nur für eine Woche kostenlos von der Webseite seiner Pyte Foundry erhältlich sein wird. Yay, kostenlose Schriften! Besonders neugierig macht mich jedoch das Konzept, auf dem die Schriften basieren bzw. gestaltet werden sollen. Er schreibt auf der About-Seite: […]
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Rabatte und Schrift-Trends
Eine Passage aus Sven Fuchs’ MA Arbeit, die mich nachdenklich gemacht hat: Können Preise und Rabatte typografische Trends beeinflussen und »schlechtere Typografie« zur Folge haben? (Schlechter im Sinne von weniger idealer, beliebiger Schriftwahl.) Sehen wir so unglaublich viel Open Sans auf all diesen Webseiten, klein und groß, weil sie die passendste Schrift für diese Seiten […]
Fonts In Use turned five!?
Can’t believe we launched Fonts In Use five years ago today. What started as a humble blog with not even a handful of writers developed into an enormous, divers resource with countless contributors. One of my favourite posts still is the one about type at the Bauhaus that I wrote in the very early days […]
On the topic of female speakers at conferences (again, sorry)