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Type Specimen by Suitcase Type Foundry is the first font viewer for iPad, revolutionizing the way digital fonts are presented today. It’s an ideal tool for people who need to select fonts for projects — be it magazine design, corporate identity design, web applications, or book typesetting.

The European Design Awards is the comprehensive annual awards organization celebrating the best of graphic design, illustration and digital design in Europe. A joint effort by 15 communication design magazines from across the continent, the ED-Awards is a brilliant way to publicise your work on an international level.

Three leading graphic design and typography experts will hold a seminar in Prague on 22 November to inform the public about design trends and tendencies in Austria.

For centuries, Austria occupied a vast territory in the centre of Europe. After the country was reduced to its current size and became a democracy, the country gave birth to several inventive designers.
(An extended version of text by Marcus Sterz published in TYPO 41.)

Dutch BIS has published a collection of Jan Middendorp’s interviews with leading typeface designers from throughout the world originally published electronically by MyFonts.com between 2007 and 2009.

The Kupé 06 conference is focused on the aesthetic, geographical and even institutional relationships between visual cultures in central areas and on the outskirts. Stanica Žilina-Záriečie cultural centre, 22—23 Oct 2010, Žilina, Slovakia.

The Mediterranean Design Workshop is a new international design and cultural event that will take place annually on the Greek island of Tinos. It’s organized by design professionals, encouraging a global view on everything design-related, and anything design can find common ground with for a creative intercourse.

The AGI Open conference will take place on the 11th of October at Casa da Música, in Porto. Under the theme “Process is the project”, this event aims to contribute to the reflection and debate about the creative processes on design.

Ten Images for Ithaca offer to design students and young professionals the opportunity to spend a week, this July, on the island of Ithaca, focusing on design and the creative process through two workshops led by British typographer and educator Phil Baines and the creative directors of the Athens based agency “pi6 communication design”.

The 2010 edition of the ED-Festival will take place in Rotterdam from 27th to 30th May. For the fourth consecutive year, ED-Festival brings to life a unique event presenting the best communication design in Europe. Typo Magazine is a proud partner of the ED-Festival.