23.Oct.2009 TDC workshop starts today
The talk yesterday went really well — and one hour more than scheduled. The audience was great and the questions and answers part just kept flowing and it was a great opportunity to interact with many of the typography greats who live in the New York area. The talk was entitled The World of Arabic [...]
31.Jul.2009 Workshop at Type Directors Club in New York
I’ve been kindly invited to give an Arabic type design workshop at Type Directors Club in New York next October. It’s a great honor to do so, and I’m really looking forward to get back to a bit of teaching. I haven’t done that in 5 years so I’ll be giving it my all! I [...]
11.Aug.2007 Meteor shower Sunday night!
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
03.Aug.2007 TypeCon main program begins today
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 [...]
01.Aug.2007 Arabic Typography panel at TypeCon
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.
28.Jul.2007 khatt kufi & Kaffiya | Symposium on Arabic Visual Culture
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
22.Jul.2007 Islamic art exhibit in London
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).
13.May.2007 TypoTechnica in pictures
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 [...]
11.May.2007 Greek Type Design Contest
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 [...]
09.May.2007 I’m on the BBC news!
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 [...]