Would you believe that the artist who designed in engraved Roman letters the slogan, “Neither snow nor rain nor heat nor gloom of night...” atop New York City’s main post office at Penn Station is the same man who designed the famous, iconic Superman comic book logo? Both are the works of Ira Schnapp (1892-1969), … Read more
A call to action for type-obsessed designers! Elizabeth Carey Smith talks about changing your own trajectory toward a more type-filled career, and creating cultural change in your workplace to empower your design practice. After a brief overview of Type Directors of the Past, commiserate with her about the current disconnect between mainstream interest in type … Read more
For more than four decades, Louise Fili has combed the streets of Paris with camera in hand, cataloging the work of generations of sign craftsmen. Graphique de la Rue is her photographic diary of hundreds of the City of Light’s most dazzling restaurant, shop, hotel, and street signs: from the grand neon scripts that illuminate … Read more
Pyramid of Caius Cestius as seen from Monte Testaccio. Typographers shape forms that endure and remain still enough for us to easily read them. But what is the shape of a figure in motion? How does movement refigure or disfigure a shape? How does moving through space reshape us? This talk will include projects and … Read more
Deeply rooted in history, but with no intention in simply recreating it, Grilli Type designs typefaces with an attitude and promotes them by creating unique visual worlds for each of them. Nearly six years into the journey, I will explain how Grilli Type started and offer a sneak peek at what we are working on … Read more
We are human beings and we all have urges. You seek pleasure from eating an oyster, having sex, or listening to music. The more you experience and embrace pleasure, the easier it is to communicate it. This sensation should translate to your work, but surprisingly it doesn’t for many. Physical pleasure is as important as … Read more
Tackling a wide range of subjects from Sister Corita to wooden toys to organic molecules, Barbara Glauber will show the unconventional ways her studio combines and adapts typefaces, graphic furniture, and printing processes mostly for books, mostly on art. Barbara Glauber founded the design studio Heavy Meta in 1990. The studio focuses on projects for … Read more
Why spend 10 months learning to be a type designer when you could spend 45 years? Ramblings on my education as a type designer in a pre-internet world. James Montalbano has created over 1000 individual fonts for the retail and custom markets since getting involved in this type design thing 25 years ago. He sells … Read more
Douglas Riccardi will present an opinionated survey of current landscape in restaurant/food branding and the unique challenges and opportunities faced by designers working in this arena. Drawing on both his studio’s projects and other notable brands, Douglas will share some of the strategy and best practices involved in creating or transforming restaurant brands — taking … Read more
ONE + ONE = THREE I spend my working life helping other people work smarter. Every day my team and I enter organisations, identify problems and find solutions. We redesign not just how an organisation looks but how it articulates, how it flows. For the past 25 years, I have always been designing. I’ve built … Read more
