As I mentioned in my previous post, I was on my way to TYPOLondon for Saturday’s events at the University of London thanks to a free ticket passed on to my tutor from Colin McHenry, which I am massively grateful of! This post is going to be a roundup of all the posts about the [...]

Quite possibly the funniest lecture I’ve ever seen about anything typographical or design related came from the great New Yorker, Chip Kidd as he closed TYPOLondon 2011 in the Logan Hall. I’d never seen a talk from him before but had seen pieces of his work online and in books. I would never have guessed [...]

With his font foundry ‘Virus’, Jonathan Barnbrook took us on a tour of his work and the thought process that he has developed within the typography side of his business. Having set up shop in 1997, it wasn’t until 7 years later that Jonathan first started selling his fonts to the world. “Style is a [...]

There was an actual real life King at TYPOLondon. Yes, a King. There had been quite a following generated over Twitter for this event and was predicted to be one of the most popular lectures of the whole series. It sure was indeed! Packing out the Logan Hall, Julian Zimmermann and King Bansah put on [...]

After a quick break for lunch it was time for Bruno Maag of Dalton Maag to hit the Jeffery Hall stage with a few of his current interns. This was a talk that I was very much looking forward to and once again, TYPOLondon delivered with a well rounded lecture on the creative processes around [...]

Working at Linotype and studying for her pHd, Nadine is a fontographer that specialises with Arabic fonts. Her talk was mostly about the stereotypes of the Arabic community and came across as a bit of sociological lesson into the stereotypes that are existent of the Middle East. It was definitely a fair statement to make [...]

This talk was fairly short and direct as it was only 10 minutes long and not even listed on the timetable of events. Toshi Omagari explained his task for Linotype to create the Didot typeface optimised for the screen and instances of low resolution displays whilst still maintaining the elements of what Didot is known [...]

‘How I Learned to Stop Worrying About Bad Type’ was the name of Dan’s lecture over in the Jeffery Hall during the first half hour of the lunch break. Although it was during the break it still managed to pull in quite a crowd of people for a 30 minute slot. Probably due to the [...]

The third lecture that I viewed was a slightly different style of work, in the sense that Morag Myerscough is more of an experimentalist and artist that what I would call a designer. She spoke about Her House, which has been transformed into two parts; Gallery and studio space downstairs and her living space upstairs. [...]

Second to present in the Logan Hall, was Jeff Faulkner, creative director at Xbox. Jeff specialises in user interface and user experience design and was responsible for the team that worked on the Microsoft Zune and Windows Phone 7 UI but now he is solely related to the design for the Xbox UI and UX. [...]