Completely non-typographic news: look to the sky tomorrow night… They’re saying we can see maybe 100 every hour!!! The show starts tonight but peaks Sunday at midnight. If you are in Western Europe, or North America, and is lucky to be in good weather conditions, then tomorrow is the night! Enjoy…
More info here:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/6940962.stm
After flight delays, a medical emergency on board (not me, thankfully), and long queues at immigration, we finally arrived in Seattle! 9 hours time difference is a killer, got me so tired that I forgot my laptop in the elevator… What a wonderful way to start the conference. Thankfully, I managed to get it back […]
For those in the Seattle area or planning to attend this year’s TypeCon, there’s going to a special panel about Arabic Typography on Saturday afternoon with Mamoum Sakkal, Aida Sakkal, and myself and moderated by John Hudson. I’ll make a small report after I get back.
Next month I will be speaking at this event, and it should be interesting for people interested in Arabic Typography:
khatt kufi & Kaffiya
The Khatt Foundation Symposium on Arabic Visual Culture
24 August 2007, Amsterdam
The Khatt foundation in collaboration with Mediamatic will host a full day of lectures, presentations and celebration of new Arabic cultural expression.
The day […]
As usual, from the BBC: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/entertainment/6902755.stm
“The Spirit & Life exhibition, Masterpieces of Islamic Art from the Aga Khan Museum Collection, is on display at London’s Ismaili Centre until 31 August 2007.”
It includes fragments from the Blue Koran (seen above).
So TypoTechnica was a blast! Below are some pictures.
Meeting on Thursday night. Picture by Carolyn. In the pictures from left to right: Thomas Caldwell, me, Miguel Sousa, and Frank Blokland.
Hermann Zapf chatting with Christian Schwartz, Miguel Sousa, and me.
Linotype colleagues with the TypoTechnica speakers and the guests from the press. I’m the one at the […]
I’ve been asked to post this:
Last call for entries to a greek typeface design contest-exhibition
New extended deadline: 31st of May
In order to capture current trends in the design of greek alphabets, the 3rd International Conference on Typography and Visual Communication (http://ictvc.org/)and backpacker (http://www.backpacker.gr/) invite greek and foreign type designers to participate in a typographic exhibition, […]
So today was not like any other day at work. The 50th birthday for Helvetica has spurred lots of interest in type and typography and it seems that we have finally migrated ino mainstream news.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/magazine/6638423.stm
The article talks about Helvetica and today it made headline news on the BBC News website which is a pioneering and […]
The date is getting closer! More info here:
http://www.linotype.com/3194/introduction.html
Linotype is organising its 4th TypoTechnica conference to be held here in Frankfurt on April 27-29. More info can be found here: http://www.linotype.com/3250/introduction.html
“TypoTechnica is renowned as the premiere platform bringing together typeface designers, font developers, and software technicians. Taking place for the fourth time, international font technology specialists, speakers and trainers will come together for […]