Next Tuesday, February 2, the new episode of Shapeshifters 2010 - Source is of special interest for people interested in typography, calligraphy, language, and the alphabet. The two speakers that evening will be Timothy Donaldson, a lettering artist and type designer who prosaically calls himself a “letter worker”; and Prof. Johannes Bergerhausen, who since five years has been working on one of the most fascinating current type-related projects – decodeunicode.org. |
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For such a purely visual medium, type and typography mostly play an subordinate role in television, at least in Belgium. Text matter often looks rather safe, predictable, and utilitarian. Seldom does a channel identity grab you because of its surprising choice of type. An exception are VTM and 2BE, the two main commercial television channels of the VMMA. They use two somewhat less common type families to great effect in both their on screen and print branding.
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There’s no better way to start a fresh new year – don’t be fooled: the decade ends on December 31st, 2010 ;) – than with a batch of fresh new FontFonts. This release features the beautiful and useful FF Yoga family with sans and serif partners, a pictorial companion for FF Mister K, and a whole batch of new Office FontFonts. Unrelated but interesting nonetheless – we’re also offering a useful mix of 25 pan-European Linotype fonts at an unusually low price. |
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Shapeshifters is a yearly series of lectures organised by teachers from the Transmedia and Graphic Design department at the Hogeschool Sint-Lukas in Brussels in collaboration with the Beursschouwburg. In 2010 the series explores the knowledge of the origins of our visual thinking in order to understand the complex anatomy of graphical communication systems. The series presents 6 lecturers who will share their views on this topic: Gerard Jäger, Markus Hanzer, Timothy Donaldson, Johannes Bergerhausen, Marius Watz, and Hannah Higgins.
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In case you had missed the news from bNo or Fontanel: Erik Spiekermann is to give the Frederik Muller Lecture 2009 at the University of Amsterdam the day after tomorrow, on Wednesday, December 16, 2009. His lecture is titled The Netherlands–Germany. Two typographic traditions? |
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A new FontFont release is always sure to pique the interest of type lovers worldwide. Not only are existing FontFonts converted to OpenType and sometimes do they receive language extensions making them even more useful. Every release also features exciting new designs – this time FF Mach and FF Masala by fan favourites Łukasz Dziedzic and Xavier Dupré, and at last the Condensed Italic weights that complete the insanely popular FF DIN family. And this time FontFont is even launching a new font format specifically aimed at PC office users.
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Roasted vegetarians? “Yah, totally misleading. There was nothing but a few vegetable slices inside.” © Emma Jane Hogbin
I just love Friday 13th, as it always gives me an excuse to post total and utter silliness on Unzipped. This time no contest, but a funny and often hilarious Group Pool on Flickr – Bad Menus! It compiles bad and funny restaurant menus, signs and food packages. The images feature egregious misspellings, bad translations, lousy visual layout, and disgusting-looking food. If you have some time to burn, dive in!
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Not that we were a-social to begin with, far from that, but since a little while FontShop BeNeLux has incorporated a number of social media channels in its communication activities. Although FontShop and FontFont already have Facebook, Twitter, Flickr, YouTube, Vimeo, Behance, Isuu, … accounts, FontShop BeNeLux thought it would be useful to deliver localised information to our customers in The Netherlands, Belgium, and Luxemburg. Plus now you can share any Unzipped post by simply clicking the appropriate icon in the navigation side bar.
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On Friday November 6, Ship of Fools organises a symposium for the love of typography: Don’t Believe the Type! Expect a busy day filled to the brim with workshops and lectures by designers and artists of Dutch and foreign provenance.
Amongst others Alex Trochut, Luca Barcellona but also our own Lowman, Lennard Schuurmans, Autobahn, Underware and Staynice will rock a fab exhibition.
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60 minutes. 1 magazine. At 60MM young up-and-coming creatives (journalists, photographers, illustrators, graphic designers and so on) produce – under the guidance of professionals – a magazine in one hour. Hanna Hagenaars, editor in chief of photography magazine Mister Motley, is guest editor in chief. The type for this project is offered by renowned Belgian foundry OurType, who puts their entire library at the disposal of the 60MM for the duration of the project.
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