TYPO Talks: How is rhythm reflected in your work?

Denise Gonzales Crisp: I’ve created and used patterns in my work since 1998. I still love them!

TT: How do you get into your creative rhythm?

DGC: First focus on something essential, like the structure or a broad stroke feeling. As I work, I then find the more expressive aspects.

TT: What speakers are you most looking forward to meeting or hearing talk at TYPO SF?

DGC: Oh so many. Maybe most particularly Gabriel Martinez Meave–a brilliant calligrapher and type designer; and Rene Knip because I’ve always been a fan, and of course Moscoso!

Denise Gonzales Crisp

“Bi-located” in Los Angeles and Raleigh, Denise Gonzales Crisp is a graphic designer and Professor of Graphic Design at North Carolina State University. Her design and writing is published internationally in design publications — including Design and Culture Journal, Items, and Eye — and anthologiessuch as All Access: The Making of Thirty Extraordinary Graphic Designers and Design Research: Methods and Perspectives. Her work has been included in several exhibitions. She is author of Graphic Design in Context: Typography (Thames & Hudson 2012).

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TT: If you haven’t visited SF before, what are you most looking forward to experiencing? If you are familiar with San Francisco, do you have a favorite hangout?

DGC: Green Apple Books

TT: What’s your favorite typeface and why?

DGC: Not Helvetica. I love Liza Pro (Underware) because it is beautifully drawn, and computationally magical.

Register today to see Denise Gonzales Crisp and all of our inspirational speakers at TYPO San Francisco 2014.