What happens around
The lecture Jos Buivenga gave to students of the art school at Dortmund during the 33pt Typography Symposium “Eskapade” / FH Dortmund, 2009 is (finally) online. Maybe you’d like to see > http://vimeo.com/8748172
There’s an interview by Tanja Rastätter on Slanted: http://www.slanted.de/eintrag/ikern.
I’ll be back in September. I’m using part of this vacation time to go deeper inside the iKern mathematical model following new ideas. I’m foreseeing all the pieces going into their own right place in a more elegant than ever way.
The Free Font Index 1 cover
The Free Font Index is an indispensable guide to free fonts and thir creators. Over 500 fonts from 35 type foundries in 17 countries have been collected in this book and CD-ROM set. The book includes comprehensive letterproofs of all 500+ fonts and interviews with 6 font designers: Jos Buivenga (exljbris), Lopetz (Buro Destruct), Brode Vosloo (The Sacred Nipple), Shamrock (a.k.a. Jeroen Klaver), Janusz Marian Nowacki and the men behind Fontstruct: Rob Meek and Stephen Coles. The Fell Types are present too! It’s a beautiful book edited by The Pepin Press and written and organized by Hans Lijklema.
Fell Types sample
Fell Types sample 2
Exhibition's picture showing The Fell Types and iKern (by nina.ninana)
Italic 2.0
il disegno di caratteri contemporaneo in Italia
contemporary type design in Italy
mostra a cura di / exhibition curated by
Marta Bernstein, Luciano Perondi, Silvia Sfligiotti
inaugurazione / opening
17.10.2008
h. 18.30
Politecnico di Torino
Manica d’approdo Cittadella politecnica
Corso Castelfidardo 39, Torino
la mostra fa parte di / the exhibition is part of
Icograda Design Week Torino
icogradadesignweektorino.aiap.it
Aiap
associazione italiana progettazione per la comunicazione visiva
www.aiap.it
In september 2002, Italic 1.0 was presented at the ATypI conference in Rome: promoted by Aiap, it was the first book dedicated to contemporary Italian type design, and presented the output of less than thirty designers. Although this included some outstanding work, on the whole it seemed that Italy was still on the margins of the global typographic scene. Six years after the publication of that book, Italic 2.0 reflects a very different situation: the number of designers, the average quality and the quantity of projects have all increased, and although we cannot really talk about the rebirth of an Italian “school” of type design, finally we can see some promising developments. Bearing this in mind Italic 2.0 has not only been conceived as a book but also, through a blog (www.progetto-italic.org) and a database where all typefaces designed are collated, it is intended to become an observatory, an active way of monitoring the phenomenon and creating a network of designers, which will be kept updated after the publication of the book. [Excerpt from the introduction]
I myself I’m present with the iKern project. The Fell Types are also shown as example of its first practical application.
Book's cover (by oinoi)
