Istype 2012 » Speakers

Ellen Lupton

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Ellen Lupton is a designer, writer, curator, and graphic designer. She is Senior Curator of Contemporary Design at Cooper-Hewitt, National Design Museum in New York City, where her recent projects include the book and exhibition “Graphic Design: Now in Production,” organized with the Walker Art Center. She is director of the Graphic Design MFA program at Maryland Institute College of Art in Baltimore. She is the author of numerous books on design, including Thinking with Type, Graphic Design: The New Basics, Graphic Design Thinking: Beyond Brainstorming, and Design Your Life.

http://elupton.com

Gerard Unger

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Born at Arnhem, Netherlands, 1942. Studied graphic design, typography and type design from 1963–’67 at the Gerrit Rietveld Academy, Amsterdam. He teaches as visiting Professor at The University of Reading, UK, Department of Typography and Graphic Communication, and he was, till 31/12/11, Professor of Typography at the University of Leiden. Free lance designer from ’72. He has designed stamps, coins, magazines, newspapers, books, logos, corporate identities, annual reports and other objects, and many typefaces.

He was awarded several honours, such as the H.N.Werkman-prize in 1984 for all his typographic work – for digital type designs in particular and for the way he reconciled technology and typographic culture –, or the award of the Society of Typographic Afficionados in the USA in 2009. He has written articles for the trade press, and several larger publications, such as Landscape with Letters (1989), linking the usually limited scope of type and typography with a much wider cultural view. His book Terwijl je leest — about reading – has been published in Dutch, German, English, Italian and Spanish. He lectures frequently in Holland and abroad, about his own work, type design, the reading process, and related subjects.

All his type designs:

Markeur (1972), M.O.L. (1974), Demos (1976), Demos (new version 2001), Praxis (1977), Hollander (1983), Flora (1984), Swift (1985), Swift 2.0 (new version 1995), Amerigo (1986), Oranda (1987), Argo (1991), Delftse Poort (1991), Decoder (1992), Gulliver (1993), ANWB fonts (1997), Capitolium (1998), Paradox (1999), Coranto (2000), Vesta (2001), BigVesta (2003), Allianz (2005), Capitolium News (2006).

www.gerardunger.com

David Lemon

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David Lemon manages the type development team at Adobe Systems in San Jose. He is drawn to the intersection between art and technology, and has a deep respect for the importance of connecting people and ideas. While earning a degree in painting and graphic design he fell in love with type, and learned the software tools that enable it. For more than 25 years he has helped the designers and computer scientists at Adobe work together to make typography work better for more people in more places.

www.adobe.com/type
http://blogs.adobe.com/typblography

Typetogether

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Veronika Burian, born in Prague, got her first degree in Industrial Design in Munich, Germany, before she moved on to Austria and Italy to work as a mix between a product and graphic designer. Discovering her true passion for type, she graduated with distinction from the MA in Typeface Design in Reading, UK, in 2003 and started to work as full-time type designer at DaltonMaag in London until 2007.
After staying for some years in Boulder, Colorado, she is currently living and working in Prague and dedicates her time fully to TypeTogether, an independent type-label that she co-founded with José Scaglione. She also continues to give lectures and workshops at international conferences and universities. Her typeface Maiola received, amongst others, the TDC Certificate of Excellence in Type Design 2004. Several other typefaces by TypeTogether have also been recognised by international competitions, including ED-Awards and ISTD.

José Scaglione is an Argentinian graphic and multimedia designer, and a graduate from the MA in Typeface Design at the University of Reading, UK. He has been working in branding, editorial design and multimedia projects since 1995. He was co-founder of the Vision Media Design Studio in Argentina and art director at Multiplicity Advertising and The prepaid Press in USA.
José is co-founder of the independent type foundry TypeTogether, and additionally leads his own design studio, consults and lectures on typography and graphic communication matters. He also teaches typography at post-graduate level at the National University of Rosario. José is a board member of ATypI (Association Typographique Internationale) and was appointed chairman of the Letter.2, the second international typeface design competition by ATypI.

http://www.type-together.com

Gerry Leonidas

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Gerry Leonidas started working at exactly the time desktop computers began to disrupt the design and printing industry, while gathering qualifications of mostly peripheral relevance. In 1994 he found a home in the Department of Typography at the University of Reading, England, where he teaches typography and typeface design. Since 2001 he has been running the MA Typeface Design programme, a model for the transformation of typographic studies world-wide.

Gerry has been contributing to Greek typeface design projects for over fifteen years, with foundries of all sizes: Adobe, Bitstream, Farnhill, H&F-J, Microsoft, Monotype, Rosetta, Tankard, Tiro, and may others. His perspective is one of placing typography in a wider context, and helping develop in designers an understanding of the basic principles, and an insight into the potential for originality. He is frequently invited to speak, teach, and review the work of others.

www.typefacedesign.org

http://typefacedesign.tumblr.com

http://blogs.reading.ac.uk/typography-at-reading

Fred Smeijers

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Fred Smeijers is a Dutch type designer, teacher, researcher, and writer. After studying at the school of art at Arnhem, he worked as a typographic advisor to the reprographic company Océ, then became a founding member of the graphic design practice Quadraat, which provided the name for his first published typeface (FontFont, 1992). Among the most versatile contemporary type designers, Smeijers has a whole range of distinctive typefaces to his credit. Among his retail typefaces are: Renard (TEFF); Nobel (DTL); Arnhem, Fresco, Sansa, Custodia, Monitor, and Ludwig – all published by OurType, the company that he co-founded in 2002. His custom type designs include bespoke typefaces and lettering for Philips Electronics, Canon-Europe, and Tom-Tom.

His first book – Counterpunch – has been published by Hyphen Press in 1996. In 2001 he was awarded the Gerrit Noordzij Prize for outstanding contribution to type design, part of which was a book about his work – Type now (Hyphen Press, 2003).

Smeijers is research fellow at Plantin Museum in Antwerp, professor of type design at the Hochschule für Grafik und Buchkunst in Leipzig, and creative director of OurType.

http://ourtype.com

Jan Middendorp

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Jan Middendorp is an independent writer and designer based in Berlin. As an author specialized in graphic design and typography, he has contributed to international design magazines including Eye, Baseline, Grafik Tasarım, Typo, and Etapes. His books include Dutch type (2004), Made with FontFont (2006, with Erik Spiekermann), Creative Characters (2010), Type Navigator (2011, with TwoPoints.Net) and Shaping Text (2012). He currently works on book projects with Ypsilon publishers (Paris), Gestalten (Berlin), and BIS Publishers (Amsterdam). He was a consultant during the start-up phase of the Museum of Graphic Design in Breda, the Netherlands. He works as an editor and consultant for MyFonts, and currently teaches at Berlin’s Weissensee college and the Plantin Institute of Typography in Antwerp.

www.janmiddendorp.com

Ivo Gabrowitsch

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Ivo Gabrowitsch is the Marketing Director of FontShop International, home of the FontFont typeface library, progenitor of the international FontShop network, and publisher of the FontBook app. His claim to fame is his development and introduction of the unique ‘Web FontFonts’ concept onto the market. Most recently he’s been working on a concept for producing fonts for apps and mobile devices. Before earning his engineering degree in print and media technology at Beuth University of Applied Sciences in Berlin, he worked as a media designer on various on- and offline projects. Gabrowitsch also works as an editor for a number of typographic publications. In 2006 he invented the Berlin Typostammtisch, a bi-monthly gathering of type heavyweights. He loves to bike.

www.fontfont.com

www.fontshop.com

@gabrowitsch

Bruno Maag

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Bruno Maag was born near Zurich in 1962. After an apprenticeship as a typesetter for the Tages Anzeiger, Switzerland’s largest daily paper, he fell in love with the smell of ink and the clatter of printing machinery. His passion for letterforms led him to study typography at Basel School of Art. Bruno cut his professional teeth designing type at Monotype, both in the UK and in the States, where he designed fonts for the New Yorker magazine.

He established Dalton Maag in 1991 with his partner Elizabeth Dalton, painter and illustrator. Over time, Dalton Maag has grown from a one man show to a relatively large foundry with studios in London and Brazil. Today, the cream of type design and type technology professionals work for Dalton Maag.

Bruno and the design team create fonts for companies and organizations such as Tesco, Toyota, Burberry, Puma, Ubuntu and Nokia. A speciality of the company is its expertise in non-Latin scripts ranging from Cyrillic and Greek to more complex writing systems like Arabic and Devanagari.

A font is always a collaborative process between the type designer, the graphic designer or brand guardian, and the commissioning client. Bruno has the respect of many eminent designers and works with companies such as North Design, Pentagram, The Brand Union and Wieden+Kennedy.

Bruno is passionate about type and sees himself as a craftsman rather than an artist. As well as designing, Bruno is a travelling evangelist for good type. He contributes to graphic design titles and is regularly called upon to comment in the design press.

www.daltonmaag.com

Onur Yazıcıgil

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Onur Yazıcıgil was born and raised in Turkey and currently lives in Istanbul. He received his MFA in Visual Communications Design from Purdue University where he researched the evolution of humanist and grotesque types. During his stay in the United States he collaborated with the Purdue Theatre by creating animations for the 11th International Exhibition of Scenography and Theatre Architecture at the Prague Quadrennial in 2007. His further involvement with the theatre and performance arts resulted in his illustrating of the 2008-2009 season posters for Purdue Theatre.
He won the first prize in typographic design in 2007 from the Society of Typographic Arts in Chicago, and his posters were exhibited in the United States, Italy, South Korea and Turkey. He has spoken at TypeCon and ATypI and lectured on various topics in typography. At the moment, he is a faculty member at Sabancı University in the VCD department concentrating on typographic design and graphic design education. He has developed a multilingual typeface, Duru Sans, which is currently licensed by Sorkin Type Co. and is included in the Google Web Fonts directory. He is also co-creator of ISType™ Istanbul Type Seminars.

http://onuryazicigil.com