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.
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
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.
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.
Mota Italic
Schliemannstraße 34
10437 Berlin
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
Tomorrow afternoon you can catch Nadine Roßa & Ralf Hermann at the Buchstaben Museum talking about the many forms of the German letter eszett (ß).
We are having a celebration called “TRIPLE XXX + DOUBLE DD” and you are cordially invited.
It’s quiz time tonight!
Come by Max&Moritz at 19:00 to test your typographic knowledge (with the support of a small group), win some awesome prizes, hang out with other type fanatics, and enjoy some great food and drinks.
(The quiz will be in German)
More info (in German) about tonight’s event from Ivo.
Check out Ivo’s report of last year’s quiz and all the super prizes.
You can also follow the Berlin Typostammtisch on Twitter.
New to Berlin is the Russian type designer Eugene Yukechev. You should definitely check out his website and his new designs: Kafka Serif and Franz Grotesque.
You can also follow him on Twitter :)
Welcome Eugene! We hope you are enjoying Berlin so far and we look forward to seeing you around soon!
image via yukechev
New exhibition at Mota Italic:
This installation, Blacklecker: tasty fraktur, features 22 unique, modern typefaces that interpret the blackletter style in new and exciting ways. Through these designs, common stereotypes and connotations often associated with traditional blackletter types are severed, allowing this genre to advance with the times and serve new and interesting roles in contemporary design.
With typefaces by: Anton Studer, Bruno Bernard, Corey Holms, Dan Rhatigan, Falk Schwalbe, Frank Grießhammer ,František Štorm, Fritz Grögel, Jonathan Barnbrook, Just van Rossum, Karsten Luecke, Ken Barber, Miles Newlyn, Paul Barnes, Ryoichi Tsunekawa, Tim Ahrens ,Tomáš Brousil, Underware ,Veronika Burian, Yassin Baggar, and Zuzana Ličko.
The show runs from November 5th – December 22nd, 2011.
It’s always exciting when we can announce something major like a new studio coming to the city… today it’s Letterin Berlin. Berlin’s newest company is a collaborative project between the two awesome type designers Elena Albertoni and Fritz Grögel. They have gotten off on the right foot with a beautiful website and some great samples of their work. We wish them the best of luck here and are looking forward to what they will do next!
Talk by Jan Middendorp and Martin Lorenz with Luc(as) de Groot (LucasFonts), Tim Ahrens and Shoko Mugikura (Just Another Foundry)
Date: November 10, 2011
Time: 19:00
Location: Gestalten Space, Sophie-Gips-Höfe, Sophienstr. 21, 10178 Berlin
The market for digital typefaces is rapidly expanding with new fonts and type foundries launching on almost a daily basis. The type world has become an exciting and diverse landscape, but it can be hard to navigate for those who aren’t part of its inner circle—and it’s not just about the fonts.Independent type designers are also writers, some even write software and participate in research and marketing ventures exploring the vast new market of web fonts.
Gestalten invites you to a night of pure typography. Typography expert Jan Middendorp and TwoPoints.Net designer Martin Lorenz, editors of Gestalten’s newly released book Type Navigator: The Independent Foundries Handbook, will talk about the current state of independent type foundries and give examples of the best independent sources for quality fonts.
They will touch upon how type design, the role of the foundries that sell them, and the distribution of digital fonts has changed over the last ten years under the influence of the internet and its social networks.
Devoted to type by day and night, Luc(as) de Groot, the founder of LucasFonts and type designer Tim Ahrens from Just Another Foundry, also known as a programmer of font design tools and member of Typekit, together with typographic designer Shoko Mugikura will also talk about their foundries and experiences about what it means to run an independent type foundry today.
For anyone who wants to know more about fonts and the companies that make them.
This talk will take place in German and English.
