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Type design competitions
What is the value of type competitions? A brief reflection on the common practice of awards hunting.
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We don’t need new fonts…
Is there any reason to make new fonts when there are so many already available for downloading? It's time to reflect on motivation to draw new type. While there is no reason to make uninspired new fonts, still, there are typefaces which haven’t...
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Typeface As Programme
Designer and programmer Jürg Lehni analyses the evolution of typographic technology and the nature of digital fonts, and introduces Donald E. Knuth’s groundbreaking TeX and Metafont systems. An essay complemented by interviews with Peter Biľak,...
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Interview with Peter Biľak, Milano, 29/05/02
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.
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Andy Crewdson
Started Lines & Splines , a typographic diary, which became instantly known amongst the online type community. In 2002, he replaced it with New Series , offered more rigourous, extended articles on type design and typography. Both websites are...
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Ellen Lupton
Writer, curator, and graphic designer. She is director of the MFA program in graphic design at Maryland Institute College of Art (MICA) in Baltimore. She also is curator of contemporary design at Cooper-Hewitt National Design Museum in New York City,...
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Emily King
is a London-based writer and curator with an interest in graphic design. She wrote an MA thesis on film title sequences and a PhD on typeface design of the late 1980s and early 1990s. Recent projects include the book Restart: New Systems of Graphic...
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Jessica Helfand
is partner with William Drenttel in a design consultancy in Northwest Connecticut (USA) named Winterhouse Studio . They concentrate on editorial design and new media, as well as publishing under their imprint, Winterhouse Editions with University of...
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