Archive for category: ATypI-2007

Coverage of ATypI Brighton 2007

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?

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