«SPACES» – Typo Berlin 2009 infos now online

FontShop published some days ago the latest information about their annually design conference known as «Typo Berlin». In 2009 the conference will take place between the 21st and 23rd of May on the subject of «SPACE». As last year many famous speakers are announced. Among them there will be one of my docents for typography, Philipp Stamm, talking about his recently published book about the oeuvre of Adrian Frutiger. ... read
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Fresh words


Some days ago I stumbled upon an article at slanted.de about a small but nice magazine «BELLA triste». Within the mag short stories and poems of contemporary German-language writers are published and combined with interviews and comments on the subject.

Lately the #22 of the periodical came. The publisher took a chance to make this number a special one. The graphic designer Andreas Töpfer did a nice job and created an individual layout for each text in the book and combined it with heart-melting drawings he took from his agenda – I guess. ... read

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Tagged: typography, magazines, literature

Not another blogger…

Ok, ok, I'm a late one. Nearly everybody already has a blog with impressive archives full of more or less impressive articles about… whatever. And now I really have to start another weblog? Yeah, I think I have to. ... read
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