Istype 2012

Fonts cannot be shared and when they do not work right, you are not allowed to fix them. Making your own typefaces is a ...

Majorities, minorities. Globalization, nationalism. Diaspora, homeland. Individuality, ethnicity. Is it a curse or a blessing to have to fight for one’s ethnic identity? Everybody ...

Designers in Turkey are working in an environment where the overall design awareness is not in bad shape but type awareness is still widely ...

Fred Smeijers is a Dutch type designer, teacher, researcher, and writer. After studying at the school of art at Arnhem, he worked as a ...

Jan Middendorp is an independent writer and designer based in Berlin. As an author specialized in graphic design and typography, he has contributed to ...

Ivo Gabrowitsch is the Marketing Director of FontShop International, home of the FontFont typeface library, progenitor of the international FontShop network, and publisher of ...

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 ...

Onur Yazıcıgil was born and raised in Turkey and currently lives in Istanbul. He received his MFA in Visual Communications Design from Purdue University ...

Based in Berlin, Adam Twardoch works in the field of font technology, multilingual typography, CSS webfonts, Unicode and OpenType. He serves as product and ...

Esen Karol graduated from Mimar Sinan University, Istanbul and received her Master’s degree with her thesis on typographic experimentation in Communications Design from Pratt ...