Type In Berlin

Type & Sound 2: MEEK.FM Typographic Synthesizer incl. Paint-speed-dating

via: Letters Are My Friends

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Dear lovers of type & tech,

Welcome to the second part of our Type & Sound series.

We’re still running Roland Lößlein’s impressing interactive installation “Digging in the Crates” (see our blog for more details!) in our showroom, but gonna release another interactive inimitable synthesizer installation by Rob Meek & Frank Müller. Yes!

The famous MEEK.FM typesynthesizer modulating music synced to type. - It is the only one-of-its-kind, and has been shown at the Typo2007 and some other festivals, but since then disappeared in a bookshelf of his createurs. It is just the right time, to resurrect it.

What else is happening on this one-time AM / PM event?!

Due to this unique date “11.11.2011-11Uhr11” Letters Are MyFriends want to invite you two times at this day at 11.11 a.m. / p.m. -sharp- to come over to our showroom, each time for a special paint-speed-dating session limited to 5 minutes.
This means: we are playing music and in the meantime all participants - separated in two people vis-à-vis - are drawing on the same paper. Dedicated to get known your counterpart better, it is meant to show off your personal typetype and at least your name. ;)

Aside from all of this Ingo Italic, will also create a new fassade painting over our frontwindow.

So there are many reasons, why you should definitely join us next friday, even if the installations run till mid of december.
We looking forward to meeting you!
Yours Letterfriends Gerrit Grotesk, Ingo Italic & Bärbel Bold

Check:

http://lettersaremyfriends.com/events.html

http://meekfm.org/

http://ditc.weaintplastic.com/

Letters are my Friends - Subletters Wanted!

via: Letters Are My Friends

Bärbel Bold, Ingo Italic, Rico Rockwell and Gerrit Grotesk are looking for one more typeaffine ‘Subletter’ for LettersAreMyFriends - which is the first typographic concept store of its kind, focused on type meets new technology!

We’re having a beautiful renovated workspace (80qm) right between Kotti, Hermannplatz & Graefekiez with a showroom. And a concrete desk for you! Internet and Insurance included.

Wanted: likeminded co-working creatives who share our passion for the well-dressed alphabet vs. new technology. We ‘re looking for fellows who not only share the room with us in a symbiotic way but who bring some excitement for and the willing of connecting to our letters are my friends-concept. Read more about us here:http://www.lettersaremyfriends.com

This means, they need to be anyway addicted to type, design (no matter what kind of design), new media -like we are-, and want to push this theme in a extraordinary way. We like open minded people with a grounded feeling for work and life and appreciate working experience (not a must) and reliabilty for a long time relation. 

October Typostammtisch

Don’t forget, this Thursday (in two days) is the 27th Berlin Typostammtisch at the Max und Moritz restaurant. It will feature 6 of the 2011 KABK graduates and their type designs. It starts at 19:00, there is plenty of good food and drink to be had, as well as usually 40-50 of Berlin’s most friendly typeaholics.

The official announcement from Ivo:

immer mehr Schriftgestalter und Foundries siedeln sich in Berlin an. Auch sechs der zwölf Absolventen des renommierten Den Haager Masterstudiengangs Type]Media zieht es nun an die Spree. Grund genug, sie gleich mal zum wichtigsten regelmäßigen Typografietreffen der Stadt einzuladen.

Viel positives Feedback ernteten Linda Hintz, Lauri Toikka, Yanone, Florian Schick, Malte Herok und Yassin Baggar für ihre studentischen Abschlussprojekte – zu sehen auf der Jahrgangs-Website http://typemedia2011.com/. Ich freue mich, dass die (Neu-)Berliner eben diese am Donnerstag, den 27. Oktober um 19 Uhr im Max&Moritz vorstellen und sich den Fragen und Diskussionen stellen werden. Dazu sei recht herzlich eingeladen.

SEGD Presentation: Communication Design in Public Spaces

SEGD will host events in four European capitals: Amsterdam, London, Berlin, and Lisbon.

In each city, SEGD is partnering with designers and national and local design organizations. Local guest speakers will present current projects while event co-chairs Alexandra Wood, Holmes Wood (London) and David Gibson, Two Twelve (New York) will introduce attendees to environmental graphic design, SEGD, the SEGD Design Awards, and current work in the field.

Guest speakers include: Helmut Ness of Fuenfwerken Design AG will show ‘TypeWalks through Berlin’. Dietmar Mühr and Oliver Mühr of PLEX will talk about ‘Spacial Branding: Designing Brand Spaces for Volkswagen’

Free entry | Register here

October 18, 2011
7:00 p.m.

International Design Center Berlin
Flughafen Tempelhof
Hangar 3, Entrance B
Columbiadamm 10, 12101 Berlin

The presentations will be in English

More info from SEGD (English)

Fontblog’s announcement (German)

Photo-Lettering Exhibition

Coming next Tuesday, October 4th, to the Mota Italic Gallery: an exhibition by House Industries featuring beautiful silk screened creations using the legendary designs of their Photo-Lettering collection. 

Running October 4th – October 29th, 2011.
Opening Party Tuesday, October 4th, 19:00 with Ken Barber!

more info here

Gallery Hours:
Tuesday – Friday: 10-18:00 
Saturday: 12-18:00 
Sunday & Monday: Closed

Mota Italic
Schliemannstraße 34
10437 Berlin

Letters Are My Friends: TYPE & SOUND

Letters Are My Friends’ fall/winter collection is on its way:

As the alphabet is the first audiovisual recording system we are dedicating our program from october till december to the tight and beautiful relation of Type & Sound.

1st event is next saturday, 1st october:

Digging in the Crates by Roland Loesslein

Digging in the Crates is an interactive installation which offers possibilities to explore Sampling as a production technology of modern music. 

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The Legendary Ken Barber is Coming…

to Berlin’s Gestalten Space!

House Industries’ lead letterer Ken Barber will conduct a two-day workshop exploring the creative process of hand-lettering and the application of illustrative letterforms in contemporary graphic design. Sharing some of the studio’s best-kept secrets, Ken will introduce participants to letter-drawing basics, various production techniques utilized to create sophisticated letterforms, and an instructional demonstration on how to digitize and vectorize analog lettering. Participants will take what they’ve learned and apply these hands-on techniques to design their own custom wordmarks.

If the €1099 price tag is a bit too steep, you can always take a shot at winning a ticket via Grafik & Gestalten. Here are the details you need to enter – but hurry, the contest closes September 29th.

Just Another Foundry moves to Berlin

We’re pleased to welcome Tim Ahrens and Shoko Mugikura of Just Another Foundry to Berlin. Last week they relocated to sunny Friedrichshain from gloomy old London.

Tim is an awesome type designer and programmer of many incredible typefaces, the Font Remix Tools, a handy text generator, and he also happens to work with Typekit. Shoko is a talented graphic/book designer who has been getting deeper into type while collaborating with Tim on several of their new designs.

Welcome to Berlin JAF!

The Modono project

Making Faces Film Screening!

For one night only, you too can catch the premier of the awesome documentary Making Faces in Berlin! This Thursday, Richard Kegler (the film’s director) will be here –live– presenting his creation. He’ll give a short intro, as well as time for a Q&A after the showings.

The important info:

There will be three showtimes: 19:00, 20:30, and 22:00. (Come early to reserve your seat!)

Admission price: €5 (regular price) €4 (students)

Tickets come with a drink voucher worth up to €5 in beverages! (Sponsored by FontShop & FontFont!)

Where: Das Film Café, Schliemannstraße 15, 10437 Berlin

Check out what Dan Reynolds has to say about the event here

Greetings Berlin!