Paul Shaw announced the return of the famous and well know Legacy of letters tour. A must in typophile circles.

After a decade of quiescence Legacy of Letters is back with a new lettering tour of Italy (in 2010). This time the tour, led by Paul Shaw and Alta Price, will bypass Rome and Florence and instead explore the Veneto and Emilia-Romagna regions. They are home to some of the most exciting, though lesser-known, lettering in a country rich in extraordinary lettering. The ten-day tour will go from Aquileia to Rimini with stops in Venice, Verona, Vicenza, Padua and Ravenna. The Legacy of Letters 2010 tour will focus on inscriptional lettering from ancient Rome to the Baroque, Renaissance manuscripts and incunabula, 19th-century Italian wood type, Fascist inscriptions, and 20th-century Italian metal type. Workshops on calligraphy and letterpress printing are scheduled for one weekend. There will also be informal conversations with several contemporary Italian calligraphers, typographers and graphic designers. etc.

Legacy of letters
14–24 June 2010
Paul Shaw and Alta Price, tour leaders

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usd 3900 (10-day tour). This includes all hotels, breakfast, three special dinners, buses and other ground transportation, museum and other admission fees, and all workshop costs.

Le graphisme est un art vivant

Trop souvent, le graphisme est réduit à une fonction
d’information visuelle des publics sur des événements
ou des propositions sensés les concerner.
Cette définition apparente à tort cette discipline
à « faire de la publicité ». (ou la publicité)

mercredi 24 mars 2010 à 18h30
dans le cadre du cycle de conférences mrcrdsgn
à l’Université Paris 8

Plan your future (and your children’s futures, possibly even your grandchildren’s futures), or just contemplate the beautiful pattern of numbers. This oversized A0 poster (84 × 119 cm) presents all the days of the 21st century, with weekends clearly marked in magenta. The 100-Year Calendar was produced for the Experimenta 2009 exhibition, exhibited as a one-off print, and is now available in a limited edition. You may not know what the future holds, but at least you will know when it will be.

http://www.typotheque.com/books/the_100-year_calendar

Richard Kegler is working on a documentary about the work of Jim Rimmer titled, “Making Faces: Metal Type in the 21st Century”.

Two years ago I shot footage (in HD video) for a documentary on possibly the only person who designed and fabricated fonts in both digital and metal formats. This person, Jim Rimmer, has died this year and this delayed project is in need of finishing. My commitments to starting a book arts center and making [...]

I’m a bit torn. On Twitter I announced I wasn’t entirely happy with this year’s TDC2 results. This was an underlying reason for asking everyone who entered the contest to send me their submissions. I needed context, to try to understand why some unusual choices were made – in my opinion at least. My remark [...]

This recent public service information advert for the British Department for Transport is just too lovely to pass up. The latest THINK! campaign introduces us to some bikers in an unusual way, to remind drivers to think about the person on the bike. With their identities hidden behind safety helmets, it’s easy to forget that [...]

Calibri, Constantia, Corbel, Cambria, Candara and Consolas are now available through FontShop.
 

Christian Hartig, Jan Middendorp and Vincent Connare discuss fonts in a new video posted by journalisten.com.

Publié il y a déjà quelques mois, cet ouvrage est sans doute intéressant pour certains qui découvrent les typographie. C’est la traduction française d’une série d’ouvrages écrits par Gavin Ambrose et Paul Harris.

The folks at CreativeBits have assembled an epic post full of type-driven advertising. It's a seemingly endless scroll of great executions, so you might want to give your eyes a rest somewhere around the middle, before the AwesomeCenter of your brain starts to hurt.

If you're in Austin, TX this week for SXSW Interactive, stop by the Veer both and say hello to a mix of folks from the Veer creative & marketing teams. There's a limited edition t-shirt you might want to get your hands on, and that's the place to do it. We'll also be giving away FABULOUS PRIZES during the conference. To keep an eye on those announcements, follow @VeerUpdate on Twitter. AND... if you love photos, type, strolling, interesting people, and beverages... grab your camera on Sunday and join Veer alum/founder Grant Hutchinson at the annual SXSW Found Type Photowalk.

Et des français sur place rapportent leur histoire. Visitez leur blog: France-cauquenes.org

Ce jour nouvelle secousse vers 7-8 sur l‘échelle de Richter.

Find out which typefaces won Cerificates of Excellence in Type Design at this year's TDC2 Type Design Competition.

Un cycle de conférences organisé par l’Institut d’histoire du livre à Lyon, du 31 août au 3 septembre 2010.

TDC2, the annual type design competition organised by the Type Directors Club of New York, come closest to being the "Oscars of Type".

Terrestrial Design presents the Biome typeface family, designed by Carl Crossgrove.

The ninth annual St Bride Library conference will celebrate the work of all those who have chosen to do things differently.

Jean-Michel Laurent, représentant d’Extensis en France, explique pourquoi il est crucial pour les organisations de veiller à la conformité des licences de fontes numériques. Vous entendrez des exemples concrets de sociétés ayant subi des problèmes de conformité de licences et les conséquences de ces problèmes.

Aujourd’hui: mercredi 10 mars 2010 14h

Isabella Checcaglini, directrice d’Ypsilon éditeur, et Sébastien Morlighem, directeur de la collection Bibliothèque typographique, animeront une soirée de rencontre à la galerie Anatome.