Chris Wu Most trained designers and typographers are familiar with the ways to make roman letterforms look good, and have keen control over letterspacing, wordspacing, line breaks, line lengths, and typeface choices. But what do you do when you have to typeset a language that you don’t speak, read, or write? The character forms are … Read more
Philippe Apeloig was born in Paris in 1962 and studied at the École Supérieure des Arts Appliqués Duperré and the École Nationale Supérieure des Arts Décoratifs (ENSAD). After two transformative internships at Total Design in Amsterdam, he was hired as a graphic designer at the Musée d’Orsay in Paris in 1985. In 1987, after receiving … Read more
How good typography and passionate manufacturing can help the book to survive the 21st century. Bertram Schmidt Friderichs is a typographer, manufacturer and publisher of books from the hometown of Gutenberg, Mainz, Germany. For over 20 years, he’s published books on typography and graphic-design. Many have won awards around the world. He fights for higher quality … Read more
A Practice for Everyday Life (APFEL) is a London based design agency, founded by Kirsty Carter and Emma Thomas in 2003. Their work spans graphic design, typography, brand identity, art direction, book design, exhibition, print and digital design. APFEL investigates, explores, collects and experiments, which paired with a thoughtful design sensibility, has earned them a … Read more
Book Night with Matt Dorfman/Jim Tierney/Megan Wilson Folks, it is that time of the year again, where we invite talented young art directors and designers to show their amazing work and see them sweat profusely. This year we will have the talented Matt Dorfman explaining how art directing at the New York Times and illustrating feed … Read more
DESIGNERS IN THE NURSERY: A Look at Picture Books by Graphic Artists Noted historian, curator, and critic Leonard Marcus will discuss the long and vibrant tradition of graphic artists as creators of illustrated children's books. Highlights will include examples of work of Vladimir Lebedev, Kurt Schwitters, Leonard Weisgard, Bruno Munari, Leo Lionni, Eric Carle, and … Read more
Along with The One Club, we invite you to join us for an anniversary screening of Typeface, an independent documentary film about visual culture, technology and graphic design, centered around the Hamilton Wood Type and Printing Museum in Two Rivers, Wisconsin. Director Justine Nagan will introduce the film and follow up with discussion on how the type … Read more
eBooks need designers! It's time to bring your typographic skills to bear on the future of publishing. This one-day workshop will teach print-based graphic designers how to make a (typographic) eBook. By noon, you'll have created a simple ePub file—complete with embedded fonts—from a common InDesign file. And by day's end, you'll know the lay … Read more
A panel discussion moderated by Charles Nix Thursday, April 3 Panelists: Steve Matteson (Creative Type Director, Monotype); Andrew Peltcs (eBook Technical Manager, Random House); and John Tomaselli (Manager, Content Applications-Design, Random House) Description: eBook typography is in its awkward teen years: There's clear evidence it will improve dramatically and soon, but for now, it's struggling … Read more
Nolen Strals and Bruce Willen of the Baltimore design studio Post Typography give a behind-the-scenes peek at the design process, illustrated with never-before-seen projects that fell short, missed the mark, or were blown off-target by the fickle winds of client taste. Originally conceived as an avant-garde anti-design movement, Post Typography specializes in graphic design, conceptual … Read more
