Archive for the 'Events' Category

Meteor shower Sunday night!

Posted by nadine on August 11th, 2007

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

TypeCon main program begins today

Posted by nadine on August 3rd, 2007

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 […]

Arabic Typography panel at TypeCon

Posted by nadine on August 1st, 2007

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.

khatt kufi & Kaffiya | Symposium on Arabic Visual Culture

Posted by nadine on July 28th, 2007

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 […]

Islamic art exhibit in London

Posted by nadine on July 22nd, 2007

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).

TypoTechnica in pictures

Posted by nadine on May 13th, 2007

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 […]

Greek Type Design Contest

Posted by nadine on May 11th, 2007

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, […]

I’m on the BBC news!

Posted by nadine on May 9th, 2007

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 […]

TypoTechnica speaker list is now online

Posted by nadine on March 20th, 2007

The date is getting closer! More info here:
http://www.linotype.com/3194/introduction.html

TypoTechnica 2007

Posted by nadine on March 5th, 2007

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 […]