Exhibitions and Shows
Three leading graphic design and typography experts will hold a seminar in Prague on 22 November to inform the public about design trends and tendencies in Austria.
Graphic Design
For centuries, Austria occupied a vast territory in the centre of Europe. After the country was reduced to its current size and became a democracy, the country gave birth to several inventive designers.
(An extended version of text by Marcus Sterz published in TYPO 41.)
Books
Dutch BIS has published a collection of Jan Middendorp’s interviews with leading typeface designers from throughout the world originally published electronically by MyFonts.com between 2007 and 2009.
Conference
The Kupé 06 conference is focused on the aesthetic, geographical and even institutional relationships between visual cultures in central areas and on the outskirts. Stanica Žilina-Záriečie cultural centre, 22—23 Oct 2010, Žilina, Slovakia.
Education
The Mediterranean Design Workshop is a new international design and cultural event that will take place annually on the Greek island of Tinos. It’s organized by design professionals, encouraging a global view on everything design-related, and anything design can find common ground with for a creative intercourse.
Conference
The AGI Open conference will take place on the 11th of October at Casa da Música, in Porto. Under the theme “Process is the project”, this event aims to contribute to the reflection and debate about the creative processes on design.
Education
Ten Images for Ithaca offer to design students and young professionals the opportunity to spend a week, this July, on the island of Ithaca, focusing on design and the creative process through two workshops led by British typographer and educator Phil Baines and the creative directors of the Athens based agency “pi6 communication design”.
Conference
The 2010 edition of the ED-Festival will take place in Rotterdam from 27th to 30th May. For the fourth consecutive year, ED-Festival brings to life a unique event presenting the best communication design in Europe. Typo Magazine is a proud partner of the ED-Festival.
Education
Typefaces and textual information in general, despite their crucial importance to our culture and development, are often neglected when it comes to visual communication and graphic design. This problem is particularly acute in the Central European, post-communist environment.
Typo
Dear Readers, the latest issue of TYPO is now hot off the press! Inside you will find an article about Jiří Rathouský from our series mapping out the lives and oeuvres of prominent 20th century Czech graphic designers, accompanies by an as yet unpublished final interview Rathouský gave shortly before he passed away in 2003.
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