Author archive

Conference wrapup    (2007.09.16)

Immediate wrapup of ATypI

Kevin Larson: ‘Better than a poke in the eye’    (2007.09.16)

Presentation by Kevin Larson: What exactly is eye fatigue?

‘Inscribed in the Living Tile’    (2007.09.16)

Yes, my book-chapter-length treatise on TTC signage is finally done

Albert-Jan Pool: ‘DIN 1451’    (2007.09.15)

Presentation by Albert-Dan Pool, designer of FF DIN, on pretty much the entire history of DIN

Matthew Carter: ‘Bruce Rogers and his Centaur type’    (2007.09.15)

Presentation by Matthew Carter on Bruce Rogers, especially as a book designer and überperfectionist

Karen Cheng: ‘Teaching type in the city’    (2007.09.15)

Presentation by Karen Cheng on teaching sophomore graphic-design students to design type

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?