Good News exhibition, HBKsaar

On Tuesday, July 6, Lorenz Schirmer, Atilla Korap, and I made the two-hour drive to Saarbrücken, a small city on Germany’s border with France. On Tuesday, July 6, Lorenz Schirmer, Atilla Korap, and I made the two-hour drive to Saarbrücken,... 

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Mahendra Patel lecture in Mainz

On Friday, June 25, I drove to Mainz with Otmar Hoefer and Atilla Korap, two Linotype colleagues. We made the short trip from our Bad Homburg office to hear a lecture from this year’s Gutenberg Prize winner, Mahendra Patel .The 18th Gutenberg Prize... 

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First Brno TypeTalks

Rob Keller sitting to my right in a Brno jazz bar. Photo by Martin T. Pecina Rob Keller sitting to my right in a Brno jazz bar. Photo by Martin T. Pecina. Do you know the old expression, “getting there is half the fun?” When it came time... 

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First Cyprus type conference

The fourth International Conference on Typography and Graphic Communication took place in during the middle of June 2010, under the theme “lending grace to language.” For the first time, the ICTVC to place in Nicosia, Cyprus; previous ICTVC... 

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After Typo Berlin 2010

Over the weekend, about 1,500 designers came together in Berlin’s Haus der Kulturen der Welt for the 15th annual TYPO Berlin. Over the weekend, about 1,500 designers came together in Berlin’s Haus der Kulturen der Welt for the 15th annual TYPO... 

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First Saarbrücken Typostammtisch

The word Typostammtisch is difficult to translate into English, much less settle on a proper plural (Typostammtische?) . The word Typostammtisch is difficult to translate into English, much less settle on a proper plural (Typostammtische?). So I will... 

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Workshop at École Estienne, Paris

On Thursday, March 19, 2009, I conducted a day-long logo design workshop with Franck Jalleau and Jean-Baptiste Levée at the École Estienne in Paris. This workshop was part of a numbers of events in the Linotype–École Estienne Platinum Paris 2009... 

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