European Design Awards
The submission period of ED Awards ends on February 15. The European Design Awards is the comprehensive annual awards organization acknowledging the best of graphic design, illustration and multimedia design in Europe. It is based on a collaboration of 14 prestigious communication design magazines in Europe.
Wolda, deadline is approaching
TYPO Magazines is a partner of Wolda, the high-profile graphic design award scheme that rewards the best logos and trademarks designed throughout the world. The winners are selected by an international three-tier jury consisting of 10 top design professionals, 10 marketing managers from major international clients and finally 10 members of the public.
Responsibility in Graphic Design
The Design Department at the Academy of Fine Arts in Katowice cordially invites all design teachers, researchers, students, alumni and professionals to participate in the 2nd International Design Conference under the heading “Responsibility in Graphic Design”, to be held on the 14–15th of January 2010 in Katowice at the Roundabout Art Gallery.
Posters of the 1989 Velvet Revolution
The brand new publication Posters of the 1989 Velvet Revolution contains reproductions of 47 posters from November and December 1989, and the stories surrounding the creation of the posters are captured in interviews with 13 poster creators. The book has 144 colour pages, measures 21×21 cm and is published in Czech and English.
ATypI Conference – Day Three
I found the fact the conference only had single-track lectures very comfortable. No dilemma whom to prefer. I was also pretty satisfied with the idea od 20-minute lectures, it led to a speakers’ briefness. During the third (and last) day I presented my collection of posters from the 1989 Velvet revolution.
ATypI Conference – Day Two
ATypI conference – Day One
Typo 37 is here!
K’09 – Contemporary Cyrillics
The ParaType type foundry from Russia celebrated the three-hundred-year anniversary of the type reform by Peter the Great by organising an international modern Cyrillic competition entitled K’09. From 234 submitted typefaces from 13 countries, the jury selected 23 projects that received awards. Six further prizes were awarded by the ParaType type foundry.
Dois Tempos
Current Issue
38 – winter 2009
The 38th issue introduces Czech typographer Josef Týfa, presents posters of 1989 Velvet Revolution, reviews ATypI conference in Mexico and summarizes recent developments in web fonts.
What’s new
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Good brand redesign
The new packaging of Crystal Light is remarkably restrained and sophisticated, even if it now falls under the all-white packaging trend.
ITC Stone Sans II
ITC Stone Sans II, redesigned type family by Sumner Stone. Two widths, six weights, in all 24 OpenType typefaces.
Please welcome our 1,500th fan
Typo Magazine group at Facebook reached 1,500 members today. Thank you for your support. We are working hard on the Spring issue.
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World Urban Campaign Logo
UN-Habitat, is launching an international competition for the design of the logo for the World Urban Campaign. Deadline: March 31, 2010.
PT Sans Free Fonts
Russian type foundry Paratype developed modern sans serif family consisting of 8 styles (Latin & Cyrillic script).
Trends in Branding 2010
10 new trends that reflect some of the changes occurring within the branding world. From the blog by SALT Branding.
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EU design is dreadful
Article is little bit idealistic, but main idea is unambiguous: the result of EU's year of creativity is only some bad logos.
Literary Images by Majid Abbasi
Selected book cover designs by Iranian graphic designer Majid Abbas from 2005–2008 in an online gallery.
TypoShirt One
Join the book TypoShirt One, the typography T-shirt compendium. Deadline to enter your submissions is 19th of March 2010.
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Font Aid IV: A Call to Action
A project uniting the typographic and design communities in raising funds to expedite relief efforts in Haiti.
Calendar
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Type design NL/SK
International Type and Media diploma projects: Jan Filipek and Ondrej Job Typefaces. Satelit gallery, Bratislava, Slovakia.
22nd Biennial of Industrial Design
Call for Entry Submissions: 22nd Biennial of Industrial Design, Ljubljana, Slovenia From 1 February until 12 April 2010.
TypeTogether in Prague
A seminar will be lead by type designers Veronika Burian and José Scaglione on 15th February 2010 at 6pm in Prague.
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WOLDA ’09 Deadline extension
Wolda has extended the deadline for entries to February 10! Submit your best logos designed in 2009 until February 10.
Icograda Design Week 2010
Icograda Design Week in Vancouver, taking place from 26–30 April 2010. Register now and take advantage of the early registration rates.
Golden Bee 9
Moscow International Biennale of Graphic Design – call for entries. The deadline for entries is 15 April 2010.
