Archive for September 2007

Phil Baines: ‘From the Motor Car Act to motorways’    (2007.09.15)

Presentation by Phil Baines on, inevitably, motorway signs

Akira Kobayashi: ‘Sansserif types and their humanistic backgrounds’    (2007.09.14)

Presentation on, essentially, Avenir Next and Palatino Sans

Xurxo Insua Pardo: ‘On the German origin of the sanserif’    (2007.09.14)

Something to do with the predecessor of Akzidenz’s being Royal Grotesk. Or… something?

Ole Schäfer: ‘Bringing typefaces to life’    (2007.09.14)

Presentation by Ole Schäfer on the old East German fonts of Karl-Heinz Lange

Gerald Fleuss: ‘The legacy of Edward Johnston’    (2007.09.14)

Presentation by Gerald Fleuss about Edward Johnston

Simon Daniels: ‘Web font embedding rides again!’    (2007.09.13)

Presentation by Simon Daniels about Web font embedding

Tim Ahrens: ‘Computer-aided design: Taming the curves’    (2007.09.13)

Presentation by Tim Ahrens on Bézier and other curves

Ted Harrison & Yuri Yarmola: ‘Flash photofonts – the holy grail of Web typography?’    (2007.09.13)

Session by Ted Harrison and Юрий Ярмола on sIFR-style photofonts

Ann Bessemans: ‘Typography for children with low vision’    (2007.09.12)

Presentation by Ann Bessemans at ATypI TypeTech