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Exhibitionism in Dublin
Don't miss the exhibitions at and around The Word in Dublin.
Posted 01 September 2010
The Word on Facebook
The Word conference has a Facebook home.
Posted 12 August 2010
Conference registration
Dublin registration early-booking concessions close on 6 August. Online booking and payment is open at our online store.
Posted 16 July 2010
Type on the web
Custom Type
As Typofonderie.com was more and more focused into retail fonts, I have launched a dedicated website. Custom-Type.com website propose several examples of bespoke typefaces with various applications of the corporate fonts in real context. A bespoke font family can meet specific requirements that standard market fonts and typefaces cannot. Some examples: http://www.custom-type.com/fonts/mencken http://www.custom-type.com/fonts/retiro http://www.custom-type.com/fonts/vuitton-persona http://www.custom-type.com/fonts/parisine & http://www.custom-type.com/lettering/ (Posted by Jean-Francois Porchez)
Order of Merit for Hermann Zapf
Linotype has posted photos of Hermann Zapf being awarded the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany, on 25 May 2010, in Wiesbaden. (Posted by John D Berry)
TypeTogether, New Font Releases
We are happy to announce the extension of two of our font families and the release of a new typeface. Karmina Sans, which follows the steps of its successful award winner cousin, Karmina Serif, shares the same technical excellence and it achieves similar stylistic features, but the new sans serif version proposes a much more versatile tool for editorial designers. Karmina Sans has six different weights with their matching italics, from light to heavy, serving continuous text to headlines to small text. Bree, a sans serif with reminiscences of handwriting that has been featured in the most important best selling lists of distributors for 2008, has been upgraded with a set of five oblique fonts, making it 10 weights in total. Ronnia got eight additional fonts which makes a total of 28, now featuring thin and semibold weights. Ronnia is a humanistic sans serif that has been chosen by some of the most prestigious designers and publications, including The Irish Times (Ireland) and The Big Issue (England). For more information visit www.type-together.com. (Posted by Veronika Burian)
ATypI (Association Typographique Internationale) is the premier worldwide organisation dedicated to type and typography. Founded in 1957, ATypI provides the structure for communication, information and action amongst the international type community.
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1. Festival črk / 1. Festival of Letters, Ljubljana
The Festival aims to awaken and promote letterpress printing technique and its accompanying body of knowledge by organizing printing demonstrations, workshops (paper making, calligraphy, book binding, printing, stone carving), workshops for children, screening of a documentary film Typeface, guided tours, lectures on type design and typography, and some "summer fun" stuff related to type (such as "Rolledover Poster competition", public printing with construction roller in the centre of Ljubljana).
Posted 06 July 2010 by Petra Cerne Oven
Expert classes on type design
From the end of September 2010, expert classes on type design will be provided by the Plantin Society in Antwerp. The secrets behind the contemporary formal typographic representations of the Latin script, i.e. the underlying harmonic, proportional and rhythmic structures of the capital, roman and italic letters and the related typographic conventions and rules, will be analyzed and dissected. Available software for font production for Mac OS, Windows and Linux, like (but not limited to) FontLab Studio, FontForge and DTL FontMaster, will be reviewed and first steps towards designing type will be made.
Posted 22 June 2010 by Frank Blokland
Free download: talking about design
John D. Berry's book Dot-font: talking about design is now available as a free download: http://dot-font.com.
Posted 08 June 2010 by John D Berry