During the three days of the second TYPO Labs conference 2017 the TYPO team covered all talks on the blog. But you cannot just read about the presentations and workshops, all talks are also available as video for you to rewatch whenever you fancy.
Lots of talks and workshops covered the topic of FontLab – four of them are summarized below. Sessions by Adam Twardoch, Yuri Yarmola and Thomas Phinney.
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By Luc(as) de Groot
The dream is making a fully automated set of processes to create variable fonts. But the reality is a little bit tougher. Creating variable fonts from legacy families is a challenge today. How has Monotype solved this problem?
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By Toshiya Izumo
How do clients and end users measure quality? Jean Baptiste Levée’s talk is well-structured and clear and raises many honest points that go beyond slider movement and the role of a designer as a “problem-solver”.
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By Ferdinand Ulrich
Erik van Blokland – The Design Space notion is something you hear a lot if you study in typemedia or work into the UFO environment. Now, thanks to variable fonts, it is everywhere. Given that many tools other than Superpolator are using this concept, it is now necessary to exchange design space information across different applications.
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By Roberto Arista
Liron Lavi Turkenich discovered historical documents which prove that both ways, slanting back and forth, were always part of the hebrew writing system. Somehow none of them really made its way into common hebrew typography.
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By Rik Watkinson
»Oh crap. That’s my new job.«
Dan Rhatigan, giving the opening lecture of TypoLabs 17, addressed the hot topic that all of the 280 attendees interested the most straight away: Variable fonts!
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by Verena Gerlach
Those of you who have been to a TYPO Berlin conference before 2010 know, that one of the highlights after each conference was — when the DVD with selected TYPO talks came home by postal services worldwide. Since 2011 we don’t burn DVDs anymore; all TYPO talks (in Berlin, London, San Fran) that got recorded can be found in our TYPOtalks video archive. By now we have over 300 design talks online and each year we add around 30 new videos. 300×45 minutes = 225 hours of video material. Because this is a lot of time you’d need to watch through this, we now start to bring you selected content. Every month (until we get tired in doing so) we will select 5 talks under different topics. Hope you like it. Off we go – with the hidden gems. TYPO speakers, that are not so well-known but truly suprized us.
»I wish I could solve the refugee crisis or do something useful in the world but I can’t. I’m good at drawing funny things.« Watch the short cut (5 mins) of the TYPO Berlin 2016 talk of Mr Bingo.
»Warning! This talk contains strong spanish accent!« Watch the short cut (5 mins) of the TYPO Berlin 2016 talk of spanish brothers and illustrators BROSMIND. Lean back and enjoy!
Watch the short cut (5 mins) of the TYPO Berlin 2016 conversation with Jonathan Barnbrook and TYPO moderator Sonja Knecht on the mainstage. It’s about politics, growing up and positioning yourself as a designer.
In ihren Workshops geben die vier Berliner Designer ihren Teilnehmerinnen und Teilnehmern einen ganz engen Rahmen für die Gestaltung eines typografischen Buchcovers. Mit Erfolg.
