Alphabettes News — November 2015

And just like that the last month of the year is here, and that means it is time for November’s news roundup. And we have got it all this month—conference talks, interviews, awards and more.

Verena Gerlach at BITS MMXV
Verena Gerlach was one of the speakers at the Bangkok International Typographic Symposium MMXV, where she spoke about treating the city as an inspiration for her work.

Martina Flor, Stephanie Rieger, Marcy Sutton, Steph Troeth speak at Beyond Tellerrand Berlin 2015
At the Berlin edition of Beyond Tellerrand last month, speakers included Martina Flor, Stephanie Rieger, Marcy Sutton and Steph Troeth. You can hear all the talks from the conference on Vimeo.

https://vimeo.com/144596065

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A Review of the Book “365typo”

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365typo: 365 stories on type, typography and graphic design, published in collaboration with the Association Typographique Internationale (ATypI), is a new annual trade book (loosely in the tradition of the Penrose Annual), featuring a collection of articles about type and typography written by several different contributors from December 2013 to June 2015. The idea is to publish a new book each year, providing a snapshot of the industry for that period.
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Alphabettes News — October 2015

In this edition of Alphabettes in News we pick up on some slack from September, show you a variety of great work by women designers, and bring to you the opportunity to learn more about their research and hear their opinions about typography and type design.

Dyana Weissman completes thirteen years at Font Bureau
Dyana Weissman, whose Benton Modern Display is a personal favourite (she designed the extension with Richard Lipton), completed thirteen years of working at Font Bureau last month, where, she says, some of her favourite clients have been Adidas, Marie Claire magazine, TIME magazine, and Korn Design.

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Kerning Conference in Faenza, Italy

I just finally watched this great little video re-cap from Kerning conference in June this year where, among others, Laura Worthington and I had great fun to speak at. The conference takes place every year in the small town Faenza in the north of Italy, close to Bologna and Rimini. You should really really consider going next year!

Not only is the town and location charming, the organizers super nice (and professional), the programming always thoughtful with great talks, and the Italian weather excellent, the food … oh my, and an Aperol spritz at the end of a warm sunny day in Italy is pretty unbeatable. I recommend adding a day or five around the conference for some trips, for instance to visit Bologna, or Florence, or Venice — all not too long train rides away — or the amazing Tipoteca Italiana type museum in Cornuda. (For the very curious, I wrote a personal post about my trip this year on my own site, but kind of too goofy to post it here or to link to.)

If you’re still not convinced, check out these photos that really capture the spirit of this small, friendly event. And then I’ll see you there next year!

In-Between — Talking with Mariko Takagi

For this third interview in the series, Sol chose Mariko Takagi (see here the concept and first interview with Alice). The idea of Alphabettes all around the world was a part of Sol’s reason to want Mariko to be interviewed, “visiting” different continents.

I met Mariko when she was giving a talk in AtypI, and I was fascinated by her ‘Hanzi Graphy’ exhibition. Her research in fields unknown to me made choosing questions for her to be quite easy. For this interview about research, symbols and identity, I suggest to make yourself a cup of green tea (preferably with ginger), read on and enjoy the Autumn/Winter crawling in (depends on where your located, could also be summertime!)

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Moskau, Moskau … *

From our mobile conference report correspondent:

Everybody should visit Moscow! I was lucky to recently spend 4,5 days in this fantastic city, and in fantastic company.

The occasion of my visit was Serebro Nabora, a typography conference organized by Gayaneh Bagdasaryan with the help of other local type people like Maria Doreuli or Ilya Ruderman. It was the third installment of the event, this year luckily not in freezing late November as the years before. And girl was the weather perfect! Bright 22–25 picture-book degree sunshine end of September — a time in late summer that apparently Russians as well as German denote as “old women’s summer” — бабье лето. More similarities in the two languages unfolded which I couldn’t make out in the stream of charming-sounding Russian around me before but then heard in every second sentence: the German word Schrift, a term that English is sadly missing, is also used in Russian (but with just one character for “sch”): шрифт.
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