TYPO conference speakers are innovative designers, professors, marketing experts, scientists, artists, journalists and much more. They present and discuss diverse approaches in the fields of communication and design. TYPO inspires, offers insights and experiments, encourages the exchange of knowledge and is a creative playground for communication professionals.

TYPO Berlin 2013 “Touch”  is taking place on Pentecost weekend 16–18 May 2013: 4 stages from Thursday noon to Saturday evening at the House of World Cultures. The list of speakers include Ken Garland, Norm, Henrik Kubel, Kate Moross, Jessica Walsh, Paperlux, and special guests from Russia and Poland. TYPO Touch is dedicated to the touching aspects of design.

http://typotalks.com/berlin

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The iPad edition of Typo presents readers with part one of an overview of the winning typefaces from the Letter.2 competition, a review of Carter Sans by ATypI President John D. Berry, a report from a conference on Research in Graphic Design and a review of Stephen Banham’s book that describes the interaction and overlapping of art, architecture, typography, the economy and people’s lives in Melbourne throughout the 20th century.

As a bonus, the iPad edition also features and updated text on Erich Walbaum’s typefaces first published in the very first issue of Typo. The regular Bazaar section and brief articles on current topics are also included.

Absolutely free of charge, the contest is open to designers, freelancers, design studios, advertising and branding agencies all over the world. The organizers have decided to abandon the usual first three top places and the short-list. Winners of the competition will be the best 15 works in each category. As a result, in late July, we will see 90 winners – five works under «Gold DFB», 5 works under «Silver DFB» and 5 works under «Bronze DFB» in each of the 6 categories.

Contest categories:

• DFC – FMCG (consumer goods)
• DFR – Retail (shops, boutiques, restaurants etc)
• DFS – Services
• DFI – Industry (industrial companies)
• DFT – Trade (b2b)
• DFN – non-profit organizations and event

Jury of the contest:

• Bill Gardner | USA
• Tony Spaeth | USA
• Andreas Karl | Austria
• Pim Nap | Netherlands
• Maxim Liviu | Romania
• Kuba Enzo Rutkowski | Poland
• Vladimir Mijatovic | Serbia

A list of the jury is not final and will be updated throughout the period of the online competition.

Each member can submit an unlimited number of works. Only works made for clients within the period from 2011 till now are accepted. Each work is presented separately via the online form.

Deadline for submitting works: July 15, 2012.

http://design-for-business.ru/competition#en

Prague College, in partnership with a British association uniting lettering professionals, Letter Exchange, and its partnering educational institution, Teesside University, will hold a four-day International Typographic and
Lettering Conference.

The conference will bring together renowned speakers from the UK and the Czech Republic. The UK speakers are mainly drawn from Letter Exchange, a UK-based organisation of professional practitioners covering the full range of lettering disciplines, from typography and type design to calligraphy and letter cutting. The
Czech speakers are drawn from a variety of academic backgrounds, graphic and typographic professional practice.

The themes and topics will be varied, but the underlying focus will be on traditional typographic and lettering practices from the past, the present, and looking to the future, as well as the underlying aspects of type as a craft. Topics will include a talk on the famous Czechoslovak type designer, Oldřich Menhart, the theory of
information flow from Ladislav Sutnar, the legibility, proportions and semiotics of Italian medieval manuscripts, national type identity and wayfinding systems, European diacritics, and the influence of Latraset among other interesting areas of typography and lettering. There will also be workshops and demonstrations from various practitioners, including stone letter carving, calligraphy, typeface design and early graffiti from the 1980’s.

Speakers presenting at the conference will include such names as Richard Kindersley, Veronika Burian, Stephen Raw, Oliver Linke, Colin Brignall, Iva Knobloch, Dave Farey, Filip Blažek, Errol Donald, and Mark Noad among other interesting speakers.

Student involvement and participation in its various workshops are integral to the project’s aims. The theme of the conference was designed by a Prague College student of the Higher National Diploma in Graphic Design, and it was voted on by Prague College’s students, faculty and staff as the winning design. The conference
is open to delegates from the UK and Czech Republic, students and members of the general public. The conference will require registration on Prague College’s website but will be free of charge. Prague College will also publish a special edition of the Research Bulletin issued by CRIS (Centre for Research and Interdisciplinary Studies) focusing on the speakers’ themes, academic and student related research and design projects.

“Geometry can produce legible letters, but art alone makes them beautiful.”
Paul Standard

Letter Exchange is an association uniting lettering professionals dedicated to preserving, promoting and developing expertise in the lettering arts. Its members offer services in calligraphy, letter cutting, design for print and web, typography, font creation, book design, signage, architectural lettering and lettering in other media, such as for film and TV.

Prague College is a British university in Prague offering undergraduate and graduate programmes in three schools: School of Business, School of Art & Design and School of IT & Computing. Prague College degree programmes are taught in cooperation with Teesside University on the bachelor and master levels and Higher
National diplomas are approved, accredited and externally verified by Edexcel.

http://www.letterexchange.org/about-us/events/differing-accents-conference.html

Along with the New Year, the first Slanted issue of 2012 has a new face. A new oversized format, 16 more pages, and a more tightening sequence in content and layout to create more space for projects and activities.

Ken Johnston of Corbis (New York) dipped into the archives and retrieved a grotesque photo story of the atomic bomb experiments in a patriotically charged world brought to light – Doom Town, a dark comic, the best stories are real life experiences. Patrick Tsai (Tokyo) leads a photographic diary – Talking Barnacles, is a story in image sequences combined with very personal lyrics.

We are pleased to present a number of readable essays and reports: Motorscream Landscapes – Über die Schrift in der grafischen Literatur by Alexander Negrelli (Berlin), Geliebt und gehasst: Comic Sans by Rieke C. Harmsen (Munich), Manga & Graphic Design, Hands On und Where The Wild Things Were by Ian Lynam (Tokyo), PAT! BON! DOKAAAN! – Schriftgewitter und Lautmalerei in asiatischen Bildgeschichten by Steffen Zillig and Sohyun Jung (Hamburg), Something like Max & Moritz – Vom Erfinder des Comic by Tim Eckhorst (Kiel), A very subjective and casual comics overview from Greenpoint, Brooklyn, NY 11222 by Paul Hoppe (Brooklyn NY), Survival is possible by Michael Schmidt (Munich) and Sans Comique by Frank Wiedemann (Berlin).

Furthermore, interviews with Nora Krug (Brooklyn NY), Dirk Rehm (Berlin), Alessio Leonardi (Berlin), Fred Smijers (Antwerp) and Matthew Carter (Cambridge) with insights into their living and working environments.

Also the appearance of the new magazine is marked throughout the comic book world. The eight-page fold-out cover glows in red and green on the outside, while the inside are comments of readers from our blog www.slanted.de, which were posted online last November.

Slanted Magazine #17 – Cartoon / Comic

Spring Issue
Editor: MAGMA Brand Design
Release: March 22nd, 2012
Volume: 164 pages
Format: 24 × 32 cm
Language: English, German

www.slanted.de

Additionally to the categories Armenian, Cyrillic and Greek text typefaces, this year for the first time entries can also be submitted in the new categories Indian and Arabic text typefaces. Further information can be found here: www.granshan.org

Due to the 500th anniversary of the first printed Armenian book this year, the committee of GRANSHAN 2012 has decided to accept Latin text typeface entries as well. Thereby the organizers want to express the diverse connections of the Armenian book production and typeface design: the first Armenian book was printed in Venice in 1512. With it Armenia was one of the first countries which used the revolutionary technology of Gutenberg. To enable the participation of as many type designers and typefoundries as possible it is also allowed to enter all the typefaces created in the last 10 years.

The 2008 initiated competition GRANSHAN expresses the importance of type as an integral part of cultural identity and also enhances the importance of other often less noticed script systems in the face of globalization. Since 2010 the competition is held in cooperation with the tgm.

From the 14th to the 16th of June the winners of the competition will be chosen during a conference for non-Latin alphabet systems in Jerevan, this year’s World Book Capital. The awarded works of GRANSHAN will be displayed at exhibitions in various cities such as Jerevan, Munich or Hong Kong.

Organizer

The Typographische Gesellschaft Muenchen e.V. (tgm; Typographic Society Munich) was founded in 1890 by type setters and printers. Today the Typographic Society Munich is the largest organisation for typographers or in typography interested people in Europe. tgm establishes a basis for sophisticated and interdisciplinary thinking and dialogues among content and form, text and photo, tradition and innovation, among design and technology. Every offer under the roof of tgm is a result of solidarity. It is a result of people and companies who are united by the common interest in typographic quality.

Contact

Typographic Society Munich | Martina Kopp
Hirschgartenallee 25 | 80639 Munich
kopp@tgm-online.de
Phone +49 89 178 60–955 | Fax +49 89 71 53 01

A (professional) — professionals and teams
B (student) — art school students older than 18 years
C (junior) — art school students from 14–18 years registered by teacher

International poster contest is public and non-anonymous. Accepted will be all posters created in the period of January 1, 2009 to July 1, 2012.

The competition is free of registration fee. Posters proceeded to the finale will be reproduced in the catalogue.

You can find all important information at the web site www.tpt.sk and you have to fill up the registration form online there, too.

Deadline for competition is July 15, 2012.
Please send work in advance to arrive on time.

Please find enclosed regulations.

On deciding to enter any design competition you should ask yourself two very important questions:

How certain can you be on the quality of the results?

The ED-Awards boast the most qualified jury around, composed of representatives from the leading European design magazines. They are specialized design editors and critics, whose daily work is precisely to recognize and promote the best of communication design internationally. Further more, an observer appointed by the International Council of Graphic Design Associations, the world body for professional communication design, is always present in order to ensure that all rules are followed to the letter.

What will you get out of it?

The ED-Awards receive the widest publicity in the design awards field. Agencies and designers who excel here, receive the best coverage available. The reason is simple: the ED-Awards are based on a network of design media, i.e. the means of communication themselves.

How to enter

• How to submit work
• Winners’ gallery
• Rules
• Categories
• Jury

Deadline 29 February!

Note that this year, all samples should be sent to:
European Design
Sokratous 157
17673 Kallithea
Greece

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The winter issue no. 46 starts with an overview of the results of ATypI’s second international typography contest Letter.2.

An interview with the Dutch environmental designer René Knip who looks at why Dutch society offers talented designers unparalleled freedom of expression.

A Berlin-based typographer and enthusiastic user of the new Glyphs font editor, Verena Gerlach, interviews the man who created the software, Georg Seifert.

European Design Awards juror Filip Blažek presents the best work submitted in the Signs & Displays category.

Read an interview with Lizá Defossez Ramalho and Artur Rebelo, members of the Portuguese studio R2, about typographic installations in public space, collaboration with architects and designs their clients had not expected.

Typo contributor Eva Kašáková looks back at the second annual AGI Open congress held in Barcelona.

Typo Magazine closes with Martin Pecina’s review of the font superfamily Tabac created by Czech type designer Tomáš Brousil of Suitcase Type Foundry.