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Interview with René Knip
by Jon Glarbo
Interview with the Dutch designer René Knip, specialising in three-dimensional typography and lettering. Part of the book 158 answers. Read this article -
Typeface As Programme:
by Jürg Lehni
Interview with Peter Biľak
Jürg Lehni and Peter Biľak in a conversation about the role of technology in type design, font formats and production tools, and Donald E. Knuth’s Metafont. Read this article
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Typeface As Programme:
by Jürg Lehni
Interview with Erik Spiekermann
Jürg Lehni interviews Erik Spiekermann about the legal definition of typefaces, web font distribution models and parametric fonts. Read this article -
Typeface As Programme:
by Jürg Lehni
Interview with Dimitri Bruni
Dimitri Bruni of NORM talks to Jürg Lehni about designing with systematic procedures and limitations, the influence of tools and their projects Replica and Sign Generator. Read this article
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Peter Biľak interviewed by Mark Thomson
by Mark Thomson
Peter Biľak speaks with Mark Thomson about his beginnings, running a type foundry, magazines, print media in general, modern dance and typography. This interview appeared in Eye magazine No.75, Spring 2010 in the Reputations series. Read this article -
Interview with Peter Biľak, Milano, 29/05/02
by Silvia Sfligiotti
Interview conducted by Luciano Perondi and Silvia Sfligiotti discussing issues of translation, languages, teaching, writing, organizing exhibitions, and having no answer to question about parallels between design and science. Read this article
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Conversazione modulare
by Silvia Sfligiotti
Peter Biľak, grafico e type designer slovacco attivo a L’Aia, con la sua fonderia digitale Typotheque e la rivista Dot Dot Dot si è fatto conoscere come voce originale e indipendente nel campo della tipografia e della riflessione critica sul design. Due anni fa ha iniziato una collaborazione con il Nederlands Dans Theater e il coreografo Lukáš Timulak, con il quale progetta e mette in scena performance di danza contemporanea. Lo abbiamo intervistato a Milano, nel cortile della nuova sede Aiap, il 30 maggio di quest’anno, il giorno dopo la sua conferenza all’Istituto Europeo di Design. Read this article -
Peter Biľak, founder of Typotheque, Dot Dot Dot
by Rudy VanderLans
Rudy VanderLans talks with Peter Biľak about the Typotheque founder’s education, design practice and experience as an ex-pat Slovak living in the Netherlands. Dot Dot Dot is discussed, as well as the typefaces Biľak has produced and his current teaching practice. Read this article
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Martin Majoor, type designer
by Peter Biľak
Martin Majoor, known for his typefaces Scala and Seria, is interviewed by Peter Biľak. The origins of his type, book design and working methods are discussed. Read this article -
Tobias Frere-Jones, type designer
by Dmitri Siegel
An interview from 2002 with the Font Bureau designer Tobias Frere-Jones, the creator of Gotham, Interstate and Garage Gothic to name just a few. Read this article
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Paul Thompson, director of the Cooper Hewitt Museum
by Steven Heller
A discussion about the role of design, museums and more in British and American culture. Read this article -
Rudy VanderLans, editor of Emigre
by David Casacuberta and Rosa Llop
The globalisation and homogenisation of design, legibility and communication and the history of Emigre magazine are discussed in this interview with its founder, Rudy VanderLans. Read this article
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Don Norman, Usablity Expert
by Steven Heller
Design errors in academic design curricula, the 2000 presidential ballot and aviation and nuclear accidents are considered, the concept of human error is called into question, and a call for human-centered design for the fallible user is put forward in this discussion from 2001. Read this article -
Merrill Berman, Design Connoisseur
by Steven Heller
A discussion about the art and design ephemera collecting practices of Merrill Berman, who has amassed a vast portfolio of design history from the past century and more. Read this article
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Neal Gabler, media critic
by Steven Heller
America as the republic of entertainment, the way Americans’ freedom in a vast choice of cable TV stations, xenophobia and the putting forward of the theory that American culture is NOT run by the political Right: all in the context of European and American history. Read this article -
Karel Martens, graphic designer
by Peter Biľak
The prolific founder of Werkplaats Typografie, Karel Martens focuses on the design of the Dutch architectural magazine OASE in his 1999 conversation with Peter Biľak. Read this article
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Letterror, designers and programmers
by Peter Biľak
A discussion from the late 1990s with Erik van Blokland and Just van Rossum about their work as type designers designing programmers.
Just van Rossum,(1966) Erik van Blokland (1967), are known for their work that they done separately together under the name Letterror. They are both graduates from the Royal Academy of Art in The Hague. After a short work for companies abroad (MetaDesign, FontBureau) they started to work freelanced in The Hague. In 1990 they have introduced “random fonts”, computer programmed outlines that print differently in each impression. They have designed over 50 fonts for FontShop and FUSE. In their typographic work they extensively use programming. Read this article -
Max Kisman, graphic designer
by Peter Biľak
A mid-1990s discussion of the state of type design, graphic design in the Netherlands and emerging digital media. Read this article
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Irma Boom, book designer
by Peter Biľak
Irma Boom, one of the world’s foremost book designers, discusses her working methods, preferences, and the nature of free-range design. Read this article
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