Type In Berlin

Stephen Coles Live in Berlin @ Creative Mornings

Live now… Stephen Coles speaking about letters on cars at Berlin’s 10th Creative Mornings talk. Updates later…

Small Update:

Nice job Stephen! That was an interesting and entertaining talk about chromeography.com.

And we must agree, the coffee by the mobile Electric Espresso bar is excellent. Certainly worth the ticket price :)

Fontblog has a nice little writeup of the event already (in German).

Follow @Berlin_CM on twitter for info about future talks!

TYPO Berlin 2012

I don’t know how TYPO Berlin never got a post here… I guess everyone already knows about it though. Hopefully you are one of the fortunate 1500ish that will be there, but if not, there is still hope. There will be some wonderful free presentations on the small TYPO Stage as well as plenty of mingling to be had in the main lobby.

Live options aside, there are also live streams of some talks online. Don’t miss them!

http://typotalks.com/video/live/

+1 Year & TYPO Berlin Pre-Party

Mota Italic opened its physical gallery and storefront the day before TYPO Berlin 2011 and the dual opening party and TYPO pre-party was one of Berlin’s typographic highlights of the year. This time around we are celebrating not only our space’s first birthday/anniversary but also (again) Berlin’s biggest and best conference – TYPO Berlin.

The party will be here Wednesday, May 16th starting at 6pm and going till late. It’ll be the perfect start to the giant TYPO weekend! Be sure to get here early and have some drinks with us!

Cheers!

Upper Case & Lower Space

Upper Case & Lower Space 
- A night with parametric typography & other sensory delights. 

Due to the extensive distribution of new mobile media such as iPad, iPhone and a growing amount of larger displays in our living environment, we have to question the changing conditions of design(ing), and therefore, notions of visual habits. 

What makes a typeface a typeface? Which laws are subjecting a font? Which techniques and displays define their body? Which influences are affecting the design through the use of special tools? Is a font generally perceived as being flat and static? 

More than ever, the combinations of new technologies allow us to create, display and use type in fundamentally different ways. As we compare this to architecture, the construction and the design adapts to the new technical possibilities. 

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{Geselligkeit Galore} 30. Berliner Typostammtisch

Es wurde angeregt, den ursprünglichen Stammtischcharakter wieder mehr in den Fokus zu rücken. Diesen Vorschlag greifen wir gern auf. Ganz ohne Vortrag und doppelten Boden können also Mitbringsel diskutiert und dabei neue Kontakte geknüpft werden.

Bitte bringt dazu etwas mit:
1. eine eigene Arbeit (z.B. Schriftentwurf, Gestaltung mit Schrift, Schrift-Fotos),
2. eine typografische Fundsache, die euch sehr gut gefällt (z.B. Fachbuch, Flyer, Fahrplan, Plattencover)
oder
3. eine typografische Fundsache, die euch überhaupt nicht gefällt.

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No presentation this time, instead you can bring found objects to discuss. Please bring any of these:
1. a work of your own (e.g. type design, design with type, type photos),
2. a found typographical item that you like (e.g. book, flyer, train map, record cover)
or
3. a found typographical item that you don’t like.
(This event is in German. Most discussions will be, too. You should come anyway, everybody speaks English)
 

Date: April 26, 2012
Time: 19:00
Location: Max & Moritz (ground floor!), Oranienstraße 162, 10969 Berlin

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New exhibition: SchriftSatz

40 Jahre der Schrift verschrieben

Hans-Jürgen Willhuhn Kalligrafie
&
Klaus Rähm Typografik

Opening Party: April 4, 2012, 19:00
Running April 5 - May 9, 2012
Location: Galerie 100, Konrad-Wolf-Str. 99, 13055 Berlin

More info here

SWEATY FEET EVENT

SWEATY FEET Typeface Release This Sunday / 12.02.2012 / 12pm - 9pm

It is done! With the great help of you and your running stamina we finished the world’s first international GPS typeface. All letters where run in a city by using modern touchtronic smartphonery including a GPS module.

People from all over contributet to our project initiated with [1]Figure Running. This sunday we will be showing the results along with all the fun stories around each glyph - who ran it, where, why and how. No pedestrians where harmed in the making of this font!

OPENING:
Sunday 12. February 2012
From 12 (Noon) - 21h

Letters Are My Friends
Boppstrasse 7
10967 Berlin

http://figurerunning.com
http://lettersaremyfriends.com

New Vintage Digital Vernacular Letters Exhibition Opening

If you’ll be in or around Berlin tonight, be sure to stop by the opening party at Mota Italic for their latest exhibition. There will be free drinks (including hot spiced wine to warm you up) starting at 6pm.

More info about the exhibition and its 120 participants here.

Aus Erfahrung Gut…

AEG has had a simple and recognizable logo for over a century. Developed in 1907, the logo – simple letters in a custom font – heralded the invention of corporate design and a new era in marketing and advertising. This revolution in design was the brainchild of Peter Behrens (1868–1940), artistic advisor to AEG, who developed an entire corporate identity for the company. Behrens, a pioneer of German modernism, designed not just the letters that the company still uses in their logo today, but publicity materials, products and architecture.

Alexandra B. Cooper, assistant at the Museum of Letters since 2009 and Art History student at the Humboldt University, will present the history of Behrens’ work for AEG and the origins of corporate design with the aid of the Museum’s own AEG letters in a short talk in the Museum.

Talk in German
Date: January 28, 2012
Time: 14:00
Location: Buchstabenmuseum, Karl-Liebknecht-Straße 13, 10178 Berlin (Berlin Carré, Alexanderplatz)
Entry: € 2.50

More info here

Interested in Designing Cyrillic?

Irina Smirnova (Paratype veteran & KABK graduate, now type designer & Cyrillic type consultant) is considering coming to show us Berliners how to design proper Cyrillic letters. Last year, she gave two similar workshops in Barcelona and The Hague.

The workshop dates and times are not yet fixed… but, it would most likely be a 3 day program with 4 hours each day – possibly mid to late February. This would allow time to design much of a basic Cyrillic character set with proper supervision. 

She’s looking for 8-12 people and there are at least 5-6 tentatively interested… So if you think this might be for you, just send a quick message either to Irina directly or to us and we’ll pass it along. 

Check out Irina’s work and get to know her a bit better!

Party @ Mota Italic 20.01.12

Come hang out at Mota Italic this Friday evening (Jan 20th, 2012) and celebrate the first show of the year “Rotation, Reflection, Repetition, Repetition”. The exhibition is comprised of 44 dizzying typographic patterns created by students of the UdK Berlin.

The free drinks start flowing at 18:00.

More info here

Mota Italic
Schliemannstraße 34
10437 Berlin

Indie Publishing Panel Discussion At .HBC

Let’s just all be friends. As firm believers that print and digital media have a lot to learn from one another, the Spain-based indie publishing exhibition Tinta de la Casa is coming to .HBC tonight for a lively panel discussion with the editors of Dummy,Manzine, and Der Wedding, as well as Mark Kiessling from Do You Read Me?!, speaking on beauty, creativity, audience, and distribution in indie print.

Tonight at 20.00, Karl-Liebknecht-Str. 9, free

via: Sugarhigh.de