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Inside TYPO, Program | Sabine Gruppe, 9 November 2011

TYPO London 2011 im Rückblick:

Vom 20. bis 22. Oktober fand in London die erste TYPO-Konferenz Englands statt.

Die Veranstaltung eroberte die Köpfe und Herzen der britischen Designszene im Sturm. Hier eine Übersicht der Berichte:

→ Slanted:

 

→ Flickr Gruppe: TYPO London 2011

→ Flickr Album von Sprecher Michael B. Johnson: TYPO London 2011 Trip

→ Eva-Lotta Lamm: TYPO London 2011 Sketchnotes

→ König Bansah: Königliche Autogrammstunde auf der TYPO London 2011

→ Eye blog: In the bunker

 

→ Design Assembly:

 

→ Creative Review:

 

→ Computer Arts:

 

→ Design Week:

 

→ The Wanderlust: Typo London Places 2011 review and summary

 

→ The FontFeed:

 

→ FontShop USA: Reflections on TYPO London

TYPO London Sprecherin Karin von Ompteda (Foto: Gerhard Kassner)

→ That Design:

 

→ Construct: Drawing competition at TYPO London Speakers Dinner

→ stylus.com:

→ Sense Worldwide: Tim Fendley at Typo 2011 – Legible London

TYPO London Sprecher Bruno Maag (Foto: Gerhard Kassner)

→ Salford University Blog: The TYPO London conference

→ Kira Slepchenkova: Post Time

→ Megaluna: Ik heb 18 fotos op Facebook geplaatst in het album Typo 2011

→ Birdwatching: TYPO London 2011

→ Hannah Gibson: TYPO London

→ Sol Kawage: London

→ Theo Inglis: TYPO London 2011 – Michael Bierut

→ W210 blog: Typo London 2011

→ Sydney Soan: The first ever TYPO London …

→ Ben Mitchell: Typo London

→ Sydney Botting: TYPO London 2011

TYPO London Sprecher Jonathan Barnbrook (Foto: Gerhard Kassner)

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Michael B. Johnson

Michael B. Johnson

Dr. Michael B. Johnson leads the Moving Pictures Group at Pixar Animation Studios. His group is responsible for the design, implementation and support of the pre-production pipeline for Pixar features and shorts. This includes Story, Editorial, Art and the review process, as well as Production Management. His team works directly with the directors, editors, producers, production designers, art directors, artists and production folks who start the process of bringing Pixar stories to the screen. Dr. Johnson has been at Pixar since 1993 and has written tools for all of Pixar's feature films (and many of their short films), including storyboarding, pre-viz, layout, animation, modeling, lighting, rendering, and editorial tools. Prior to Pixar, Michael attended the University of Illinois where he earned his undergraduate degree in Computer Science Engineering. He studied abroad for a year in Swansea, Wales and also worked for NCSA, Thinking Machines, IBM and MIT’s Media Lab. He completed his Masters of Science in Visual Studies and his PhD in Computer Graphics and Animation at the MIT Media Lab, where Dr. Edwin Catmull (founder & President of Pixar) was on his thesis committee. He lives in Oakland CA with his wife and daughter.
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Eva-Lotta Lamm

UX Designer, Illustrator, Visual Thinker (Berlin)

Eva-Lotta Lamm is a User Experience Designer, illustrator and visual thinker. She grew up in Germany, worked in Paris and London for a few years before packing up her backpack and go travelling the world for 14 months. She has over 12 years of experience working on digital products as an in-house designer for Google, Skype, and Yahoo! as well as freelancing and consulting for various agencies and her own clients. After being a (semi-)nomad for 2 years, she is now based in Berlin. Besides her UX work, she has been taking sketchnotes at hundreds of talks and conferences and has self-published her notes in several books (www.sketchnotesbook.com). During her world trip, she documented her experience as daily sketchnotes in her travel diary (www.secretsfromtheroad.com). Eva-Lotta also is a sought after expert and teacher in the area of sketching, sketchnoting and visual thinking. She is regularly speaking at international design conferences and has been teaching sketching workshops at conferences and for companies for over 5 years. She is currently writing a book on sketching interfaces, based on one of her workshop formats. Eva-Lotta is the illustrator of Content Everywhere by Sara Wachter-Boettcher and The User’s Journey by Donna Lichaw, both published by Rosenfeld Media. In her personal sketching practice, she is exploring the area of Visual Improvisation, where she is looking at the parallels between sketching and improvisation and experiments with how the principles from her regular theatre improvisation practice can be used to inspire visual work. Photo: Marc Thiele  
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King Bansah

King Bansah

A young boy grew up in a small village in Ghana who liked to work on cars and dreamed of owning his own company. His name was Céphas Bansah. His grandfather, the king of Hohoe Ghana, helped him fulfil that dream and sent him to Ludwigshafen in Germany, where he soon earned two master craftsman trade licenses and has, for the last 30 years, owned and operated an auto repair shop. Céphas Bansah started a family and lived a content and happy life until a fax from Ghana changed his simple existence forever. His grandfather had died and the tribal elders had chosen him as the new king. Bansah took on the office of king as his new life’s work. He quickly recognised that the only way to help his people improve their lives was to realise aid projects in Ghana with effective media exposure. The result was bridges, schools, clinics and much more. King Bansah is a monarch who wears his office with dignity. But he has no problem appearing on television in entertainment shows. He is a quick-witted, spirited, funny king who captures the hearts of an audience with his distinctive charm – all in the service of improving the lot of his people in Ghana.
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Julian Zimmermann

Julian Zimmermann

Julian Zimmermann, born in 1983, lives, works and studies in Mannheim. His design profile for King Bansah was developed as part of his work on a bachelor’s of communication design at Mannheim College. Zimmermann concentrates on typography, and corporate and editorial design. Among other accolades, he has received the iF, reddot and European Design Award.
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Jonathan Ellery

Jonathan Ellery

Jonathan Ellery is the founder of London based design studio Browns. Since it opened for business in 1998, Browns has built a reputation for its progressive and conceptual approach to design. It brings artistry, wit, rigour and skilful management to projects large and small, ambitious and unassuming. Its definition of design is broad, its points of references are from much further a field, as are its collaborations. In April 2011 Browns was named design studio of the year by Creative Review Magazine. In 2005 Ellery launched Browns Editions, the publishing arm of Browns which produces limited edition photography, and conceptual art books. With so much emphasis on screen based, digital technology these days, Ellery sees Browns Editions as offering a precious enclave of resistance. 2005 also marked Ellery’s first notable shift towards balancing design and his work as a solo artist. With four one man shows in as many years in London and New York, his fifth, The Human Condition, is to be shown in London, Spring 2011. He works across a wide range of media from sculpture to performance, film to photography. The medium of book art is also central to his work, molding paper, fonts and images as he would any other medium, to create tactile, hand numbered, objects of art.
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Dale Herigstad

Dale Herigstad

Dale is a thought leader on the future of media consumption in an interactive and “many-screen” world of increasingly rich media interfaces. With an extensive background in Broadcast Design and branding, he was creative director of on-air design and branding for the three CBS Sports Winter Olympics broadcasts in the 1990s. Having his roots in the rich media approach to design in TV and film, he has pioneered a unique spatial approach to designing navigation systems for Interactive TV and connected screens. The work begins to blur the line between television, games and web, a concept he calls "New Television." Dale was a part of the research team that developed the visionary gestural interfaces that first appeared in the film “Minority Report,” and is now leading development work in the rapidly emerging world of gestural navigation for screens at a distance. Screens have always defined unique spaces, and, particularly with advancements in stereo 3D projection and advanced AR, information can occupy these spaces. Spatial context is becoming increasingly important in design that is no longer flat: space and place are the new frontiers of design. Dale has an MFA from California Institute of the Arts, where in 1981 he taught the first course in Motion Graphics offered to designers in the United States. He served on the founding advisory board of the digital content direction at the American Film Institute, and was an active participant in the development of advanced prototypes for Enhanced TV at AFI for many years. Dale has won four Emmy awards. Dale was co-founder of interactive agency Schematic, which recently merged with three other agencies to become global powerhouse Possible Worldwide. He resides in London.
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Gary Hustwit

Filmmaker (New York)

Gary Hustwit is an independent filmmaker and photographer based in New York. He is the CEO and Creative Director of Scenic, a virtual reality content studio focusing on non-fiction VR. Gary has produced 13 feature documentaries, including the design trilogy of Helvetica, Objectified, and Urbanized. His films have been broadcast on HBO, PBS, BBC, and television outlets in 20 countries, and have been screened in over 300 cities worldwide.
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Andrew Stevens

Andrew Stevens

Graphic Thought Facility is a London-based design consultancy. Founded 1990 we have worked for retailers, manufacturers, publishers, cultural institutions and galleries around the world and have forged long-term relationships with many of our clients. The scale and complexity of our projects are as varied as our clients. Recent commissions include store environments for M&S, exhibition design for the Science Museum, books for Gagosian Gallery, wayfinding for VitraHaus and campaigns for Kvadrat and Frieze Art Fair. Over this time the studio has striven to stay relatively small – currently a team of ten designers supported by our studio manager. Andrew Stevens, Director, born in Sheffield, 1966. Studied graphic design at Leeds Polytechnic, 1985-88, and Royal College of Art, 1988-90. Founder member of Graphic Thought Facility in London, 1990.
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Neville Brody

Neville Brody is a designer, typographer, art director, brand strategist and consultant and has established himself as one of the most prolific, innovative and influential graphic designers in the world. Neville is also the founder of the Research Studios network with studios in Berlin, New York, Paris, Barcelona and Tokyo. Having redesigned The Times newspaper and the BBC website, current clients include LVMH, Nike, United British Media, Nokia and Converse together with several arts and culture based organisations in the UK and Asia.
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Marina Willer

Marina Willer

Designer and film-maker Marina Willer is the leading creative director at Wolff Olins London. Originally from Brazil, she has been living and working in London for 15 years. Marina is best known for having designed the now world famous Tate logo, part of brand work which led UK culture to be reimagined in the eyes of the public. Marina was also the leading creative on identities like Southbank Centre, Schaulager, Macmillan Cancer support, Oi (the Braziliant Telecom), Beeline (which is now estimated to be the most valuable brand in Russia) and various international brands. Among her film projects, she made “Exposed” to introduce Richard Rogers’ exhibition in the Pompidou Centre and Design Museum. Others have been shown at the Cartier Foundation in Paris, ICA in London and won awards such as best short film in Sao Paulo film festival, with the film “Cartas da Mãe. Marina has been a member of the jury at D&AD 4 times and is an external examiner at the Royal College of Art, having also previously obtained an MA from the College.
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Chip Kidd

Chip Kidd

Writer / Graphic Designer (New York, New York)

The history of book design can be split into two eras: before graphic designer Chip Kidd and after. Time Out New York, Nov. 2005 Chip Kidd is a writer and graphic designer in New York City. His book jacket designs for Alfred A. Knopf (where he has worked since 1986) have helped spawn a revolution in the art of American book packaging. In 1997 he received the International Center of Photography's award for Use of Photography in Graphic Design, and he is a regular contributor of visual commentary to the Op-ed page of the New York Times. In the fall of 2006, Kidd's work will be included in the Cooper-Hewitt Museum's third National Design Triennial. Mr Kidd has also written about graphic design and popular culture for McSeeney's, The New York Times, The New York Observer, Entertainment Weekly, Details, The New York Post, ID and Print. His first book as author and designer, Batman Collected (Bulfinch, 1996), was given the Design Distinction award from ID magazine, and his second, Batman Animated (HarperCollins, Fall 1998) garnered two of the Comics Industry's Eisner Awards, as did his 2002 book Peanuts: The Art of Charles M. Schulz. As an editor of books of comics for Pantheon (a subsidiary of Knopf) Kidd has worked extensively with some of the most brilliant talents practicing today, including: Chris Ware, Art Spiegelman, Dan Clowes, Kim Deitch, Charles Burns, Mark Beyer, Ben Katchor and Alex Ross. A comprehensive monograph of Kidd's work, CHIP KIDD: BOOK ONE was published in October of 2005. The introduction is by John Updike and the 400 page book features over 800 works, spanning two decades, from 1986 through 2006. It's first edition sold out a week before publication and it has since gone into two consecutive re-printings. The Cheese Monkeys, Kidd's first novel, was published by Scribner in Fall of 2001 and was a national bestseller, as well as a New York Times Notable Book of the Year. He is currently at work on his second novel, tentatively titled The Learners. Both books use the design process as a means to construct a compelling narrative.
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Michael Bierut

Michael Bierut

Michael Bierut studied graphic design at the University of Cincinnati’s College of Design, Architecture, Art and Planning. Prior to joining Pentagram’s New York office as a partner in 1990, he was Vice President of Graphic Design at Vignelli Associates. His clients at Pentagram have included The Council of Fashion Designers of America, The New York Times, The Museum of Arts and Design, United Airlines, The Brooklyn Academy of Music, Harley-Davidson, Princeton University, the Morgan Library and Museum, Saks Fifth Avenue and the New York Jets. He has won hundreds of design awards, and his work is represented in the permanent collections of museums around the world. In 2002, Michael Bierut co-founded Design Observer, a blog of design and cultural criticism. Today, the site is the largest design publication in the world. In 2008, he was named winner in the Design Mind category of the Cooper-Hewitt National Design Awards.
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Jeff Faulkner

Jeff Faulkner is an award winning brand, web and UX Creative Director/Designer based in Seattle Washintgon, USA. Jeff is currently Creative Director for Xbox, where he guides the brand and UX vision for the Xbox Entertainment Ecosystem. Before Xbox, Jeff's history includes Executive Creative Director for Blast Radius, Artist in Residence at Second Story, Partner and CD at Portland Oregon design firms deepPlay and Parisfrance where he worked exclusively with Wieden + Kennedy and Nike. Jeff has served on several design panels, as competition judge and speaker. He was also Communication Design professor at the Northwest College of Art. Clients inlcude MoMA NYC, Nike, Apple, Starbucks, Virgin, BMW, Gravis and Burton. Jeff's background includes years in the Pacific Northwest music scene, photography, journalism and lots of design. You can get a sense for his personal style and first love, art direction, by visiting his blog http://agiantgirl.tumblr.com.
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Morag Myerscough

Morag Myerscough

Over the years Morag has concentrated on working way beyond the restrictions of 2-D and creates and curates many different types of work including a train as a café, numerous exhibitions, interpreting buildings plus running her own gallery and shop »her house«. Myerscough believes that wayfinding is not purely about a series of signs but as much about bringing out the narrative in the built environment, enhancing the physical experience, it is very important how people feel when they move through a space, if they can move easily almost unconsciously and if you can make them smile and feel happy that is one of the best outcomes. Morag studied at St Martin's and the Royal College of Art. Starting Studio Myerscough in 1993.
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Dan Rhatigan

Dan Rhatigan works with Adobe Typekit in New York as the Senior Manager of Adobe Type. He has over 25 years of eclectic experience in various industries as a typesetter, graphic designer, typeface designer, and teacher, including several years in London and New York serving as Type Director for Monotype. He has a BFA in graphic design from Boston University, and MA in typeface design from the University of Reading in the UK, and a very tattered passport.
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Nadine Chahine

Type Designer (London)

Dr. Nadine Chahine is an award winning Lebanese type designer working as the UK Type Director and Legibility Expert at Monotype. She has an MA in Typeface Design from the University of Reading, UK, and a PhD from Leiden University, The Netherlands. Nadine’s research focus is on eye movement and legibility studies for the Arabic, Latin, and Chinese scripts. She has numerous awards including two Awards for Excellence in Type Design from the Type Directors Club in New York in 2008 and 2011. Her typefaces include: the best-selling Frutiger Arabic, Neue Helvetica Arabic, Univers Next Arabic, Palatino and Palatino Sans Arabic, and Koufiya. Nadine's work has been featured in the 5th edition of Megg's History of Graphic Design and in 2012 she was selected by Fast Company as one of its 100 Most Creative People in Business. In 2016 her work was showcased in the 4th edition of First Choice which highlights the work of the 250 top global designers practising today.
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Bruno Maag

Bruno Maag was born near Zurich in 1962. After an apprenticeship as a typesetter for the Tages Anzeiger, Switzerland's largest daily paper, he fell in love with the smell of ink and the clatter of printing machinery. His passion for letterforms led him to study typography at Basel School of Design. Bruno cut his professional teeth designing type at Monotype, both in the UK and in the United States, where he designed fonts for the New Yorker magazine, in 1990. He established Dalton Maag in 1991 with his partner Elizabeth Dalton, painter and illustrator. Over time, Dalton Maag has grown from a one man show to a relatively large foundry with studios in London and Brazil. Today, the cream of type design and type technology professionals work for Dalton Maag. Bruno and the design team create fonts for companies and organizations such as Tesco, Toyota, Burberry, Southampton City Council, and more recently Ubuntu and Nokia. A speciality of the company is its expertise in non-Latin scripts, including Arabic, Cyrillic and Greek. Bruno is passionate about type and sees himself as a craftsman rather than an artist. As well as designing, Bruno is a travelling evangelist for good type. He contributes to graphic design titles and is regularly called upon to comment in the design press.
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Jonathan Barnbrook

Jonathan Barnbrook

Graphic Designer (London)

Jonathan Barnbrook is one of the most well-known graphic designers in Britain. Since 1990 he has chosen to work with a mixture of cultural institutions, activist groups and charities as well as completing a steady stream of personal posters. He is also know for his collaborations with Adbusters, Damien Hirst, his work for David Bowie and his ubiquitous fonts designs released through Emigre and his company Virusfonts. His contribution to graphic design was recognised by a major exhibition at the Design Museum, London in 2007.
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