Between the 30th and 31st of March, I attended the Dibi Conference in Edinburgh. For me, one of the talks really stood out. This was Bram Stein's talk about the Science of Typography.
Throughout his illustrious career as a designer and typographer, Erik Spiekermann has created dozens of commercial typefaces (FF Meta, FF MetaSerif, ITC Officina, FF Govan, FF Info, FF Unit, LoType, Berliner Grotesk) and many custom typefaces for world-renowned...
I could happily write about the never-ending beauty of the letterforms, the utilitarianism of Sans Serifs, the timeless sophistication of Serifs, the elegance of Script Lettering, the no-nonsense of slab serif, the aggression of Black Letter and the myriad of inbetweeners. I could write about the...
Jackson Alves is a typographer and graphic designer in Brazil whose love of traditional calligraphy influences his modern design philosophy. Alves creates custom types and lettering for different projects and companies using the basic tenets of true calligraphy, and then translates them into...
Illustrative type specialist Luke Lucas began his love affair with the written word when, half way through the first year of his Melbourne School of Art diploma, he and a friend started an inline skate magazine called Fourinarow...