Veronika is scheduled to give a talk at this years typographic symposium "typetalks" in Brno. This unique one-day event will feature various international speakers lecturing about the beauty of type, typographic history and will share some insight in type design. More information about venue, schedule and registration are available on typetalks.com.

http://www.type-together.com/index.php?action=portal/viewContent&cntId_c...

For Immediate Release

De Pinte, Belgium - April 22, 2010

Fayon – a high performance Didot for text

OurType Fayon is a practical result of Peter Mohr's daring study of Didot style printing types, and his attempts to discover exactly how they emerged into the world of typography. Peter's theoretical body of work is published in Zum Ursprung Klassizistischer Antiquaschriften, Hochschule für Grafik und Buchkunst, Leipzig, July 2009.

For Immediate Release

De Pinte, Belgium - April 22, 2010

OurType is proud to announce its brand new website – a fresh and dynamic re-imagining of the original online home of the independent type foundry.

Darjeeling combines British Elegance and Indian Flavor. It is flared like Optima, with a scent of Bodoni. By layering “Regular” and “Ornaments” over each other you will create astounding pieces of colorful typography. Additionally there is “Regnaments” which combines the two other styles.

Darjeeling is great as a display font, but also perfectly legible at text sizes. Use the ornaments only to add spice to Your design.

Make sure to use applications supporting all these lavish OpenType features like small caps, various sets of figures, fractals and the 102 discretionary ligatures.

Darjeeling has been recently released at myfonts:
http://new.myfonts.com/fonts/facetype/darjeeling/

Typefaces and textual information in general, despite their crucial importance to our culture and development, are often neglected when it comes to visual communication and graphic design. This problem is particularly acute in the Central European, post-communist environment. TypeTalks is a collaborative activity designed to raise awareness of the power of typeface design and typography among both graphic design professionals and students.

Read more at: http://typetalks.com

Our one-day symposium will take place in Brno, Czech Republic in the House of the Lords of Kunštát on 21 June 2010 at 10:12.

This display version of Karmina Regular was developed for a particular client with a specific set of requirements in mind. The client is using the full Karmina family for all their communication materials and needed a version for large size applications, as big as billboards. They liked the sturdiness and low contrast of Karmina and didn't want to loose those features too much in the display version. After several presentations and more extreme variants, we nailed the design. The contrast is rather low for a display version, but the overall feel of the typeface is elegant, slim and yet sturdy enough. Both parties are very happy with the result and we look forward to see some applications.

I am happy to announce that Anglaise is now for sale on MyFonts!

Elk Grove Village, IL – April 14, 2010 – Ascender Corporation, a leading provider of advanced font products, announced a new web fonts service on its www.AscenderFonts.com site to appeal to web designers and web developers.

Web Fonts from Ascender is a new service to format websites with CSS @font-face using licensed downloadable fonts. Web Fonts eliminate the hassles and expense of using Flash, JavaScript or image replacement techniques for headlines. Web Fonts from Ascender also offers high quality text fonts for web designers to extend their typographic choice beyond the limited set of ‘web-safe’ fonts.

TypeCon2010: Babel
August 17-22, 2010
Century Plaza Hyatt Regency, Los Angeles

The Society of Typographic Aficionados (SOTA) is now accepting programming proposals for its twelfth annual conference. TypeCon2010 will be held August 17-22, in Los Angeles. We are partnering with many local and international organizations in presenting TypeCon2010, and look forward to offering a variety of affordable programming designed for type makers and type users from all walks of life.

We are currently reviewing proposals for contemporary and historical presentations and panel discussions, focused hands-on workshops in both the digital and non-digital realms, and a variety of programming for the Type and Design Education Forum and other special events.

Topics at TypeCon cover a broad range of interests, including typography, type design, font production, graphic design, new media, printing history, calligraphy and hand lettering, the book arts, advertising, type in motion, literacy, type sales and marketing, legal issues, type and design education, and other related areas.

WOBURN, Mass., April 7, 2010 – Monotype Imaging Holdings Inc., (Nasdaq: TYPE), a leading global provider of text imaging solutions, has released the 20-font Neue Frutiger® Condensed family, the latest addition to the Linotype® Library of typefaces. Designed by Akira Kobayashi, type director at Linotype GmbH, Monotype Imaging’s German-based subsidiary, and Adrian Frutiger, creator of the original Frutiger design, the new family builds on one of the best selling Linotype offerings of all time.

The new fonts can be previewed and licensed from Monotype Imaging’s e-commerce sites: www.fonts.com, www.linotype.com, www.itcfonts.com and www.faces.co.uk.

Ryan Ogborn, a 2nd year design student at Seattle Central Community College, took to a shooting gallery to "design" an experimental font for a thesis project in his experimental typography class this quarter. He claims it is inspired by the font, Bernhardt Medium and Sarah Palin. He used each letter for target practice and recorded the "hits" and collected this data on a poster of all 26 letters. He also included one added glyph of a winking emoticon in his poster (which got zero hits). See a video of some of the action here. http://letterology.blogspot.com/2010/03/going-rogue.html

Sand Serif, an elaborate video created with sand on top of a light table in a darkened room, is the work of two multi-cultural and multi-talented 2nd year design students at Seattle Central Community College. Mykhaylo Sinenko, originally from the Ukraine and Priyanka Basu from India, edited over 7 hours of video and to create this beautifully choreographed work. It is a stunning piece and a marvel to watch. http://letterology.blogspot.com/2010/03/xtype-show-redux.html

The month of April marks the 2nd Annual Student xType Culture Show at Seattle Central Community College's Hunter Art Gallery. This show features the work of 48 students creating 26 letters of experiments in typography. See fonts which are illustrated, animated, baked, bleached, and even blighted with bullets. The rules of play were to construct an experimental display font of 26 letters out of any media (with the exception of flammable, toxic or xRated, but this edict was even ignored), and they were bound only by time, money, materials and their imagination.

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BROWNSTONE SANS ::: NEW SUDTIPOS RELEASE

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We are very happy to announce the release of Brownstone Sans & Frames.

Last week we announced that it just received a Certificate of Excellence at the Bienal Tipos Latinos 2010!

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As the 100th font released by CheapProFonts, I wanted to make something special - so I have chosen to upgrade one of the most popular free fonts ever: the one and only Scriptina by the infamous Fredrick "Apostrophe" Nader!

Abril, the new typeface by Veronika Burian and José Scaglione is on the way. It is a font family engineered mainly for newspapers and magazines that features friendly and elegant styles for headlines and robust and economic styles for text. For the first time ever, we will be posting images showing the progress of the develoment of a font family. So stay connected to our Flickr group!

http://www.flickr.com/photos/typetogether/sets/72157623684586626/

We are happy to announce that two of our typefamilies, Adelle and Karmina Sans, have been recently selected in the renowned South-American type design competition, Tipos Latinos 2010.

http://www.type-together.com/index.php?action=portal/viewContent&cntId_c...

Hello all,

I'm very pleased to say that I have produced a new art print.

The print is called 'Blazing' and is available exclusively from Pictures on Walls.
POW is a big gallery selling the work of some extremely talented and established artists including Banksy and Antony Micallef, so I think it's a very positive development.

It's an ambigram, which means you can read it both ways up. Details here:

www.seblester.co.uk
www.picturesonwalls.com

Although these two fonts were developed separately they have been combined with great success in a wide range of publications including England's Big Issue, Findland's Polyteekkari and USA's The Prepaid Press among others. Ronnia's 28 styles allows for great flexibility and can be used from titles to footnotes; Karmina's sturdiness grants excellent legibility for continuous reading even in the worst imaginable printing conditions. For a limited time,TypeTogether is offering an editorial bundle including Karmina and Ronnia, 32 fonts altogether.

And your last newsletter!
http://www.type-together.com/newsletters/2010-03.html

Abril, the new typeface by Veronika Burian and José Scaglione is on its way. It is a font family engineered mainly for newspapers and magazines that features friendly and elegant styles for headlines and robust and economic styles for text. For the first time ever, we will be posting images showing the progress of the develoment of a font family. So stay connected to our Flickr group!

And our latest newslette
http://www.type-together.com/newsletters/2010-03.html

The Society of Typographic Aficionados (SOTA) is pleased to announce a new award for young people who have created original work in type design, type history, or other areas related to typography. The award recognizes a person 30 years of age or younger who shows both achievement and future promise in the field of typography. The recipient will attend TypeCon2010 in Los Angeles and will give a presentation during the conference program.

The SOTA board of directors hopes that this introduction to a large cross-section of the typographic community will serve as a catalyst in advancing the career of the recipient.

BUILDING BRIDGES THROUGH BUSINESS
 
The 6th World Islamic Economic Forum will be held at the Kuala Lumpur Convention Centre from 18-20th May 2010. Secure your place  now at the key event for captains of Industry, business entities and  emerging entrepreneurs of the Muslim world.

For further info, please contact:

Izran Al Amin
Project Coordinator
World Islamic Economic Forum Foundation
2nd Floor, Kompleks Antarabangsa
Jalan Sultan Ismail
50250 Kuala Lumpur
 
Tel: +603 2145 5500
Fax: +603 2145 5504
 
www.wief.org

or

William Harald-Wong
e-mail: william@whwdesign.com
mobile: (6)019-3814687

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William Harald-Wong & Associates Sdn Bhd
Urban Identity Designers

The Future of Reading Symposium
Rochester Institute of Technology
June 9 –12, 2010

Keynote talks by Margaret Atwood, award-winning author,
and Chris Anderson, editor-in-chief, “Wired” Magazine

Join us in Rochester, New York for provocative and challenging presentations by world-class authors and experts in writing systems, content creation, linguistics, vision and cognition, typography, and visual media that all seek to answer the question: “How will reading change?”

Register now! $295, includes meals.
http://futureofreading.cias.rit.edu/

Speakers and panelists include:

Margaret Atwood - internationally acclaimed author of speculative fiction
Chris Anderson - editor of Wired magazine

LETRA is a creative approach to the Typography world.

After have noticed the gap on this discipline in the city of Madrid (Spain), the Mediodía Chica association got in touch with designers and illustrators who came from different perspectives on this interesting world and offered them to deliver a series of workshops that show their personal approach to typographic creation. Subcoolture give one of these workshops with names like Stereoplastika, Pablo Abad, Luís B and La Galga. The appointment will be a weekend once a month since March to July.

More info here:

http://www.mediodiachica.com/blog/?p=373

RIT Future of Reading Symposium
Rochester Institute of Technology
June 9 –12, 2010

A symposium with keynotes by
Margaret Atwood, award-winning author
Chris Anderson, editor-in-chief, “Wired” Magazine

Join us in Rochester, New York for provocative and challenging presentations by world-class authors and experts in writing systems, content creation, linguistics, vision and cognition, typography, and visual media that all seek to answer the question: “How will reading change?”

Register now! $295, includes meals.

http://futureofreading.cias.rit.edu/

Speakers and panelists include:

Margaret Atwood - internationally acclaimed author of speculative fiction
Chris Anderson - editor of Wired magazine