News, accounts and occasional commentary.
Aisha nominated for the German Design Prize and a little website update
The nomination of Aisha for the Design Prize of the Federal Republic of Germany already dates back a few weeks, but I only lately decided not to participate in the final competition which delayed the announcement of her nomination. Although I was slightly disappointed that some of the formalities of the competition did not allow […]
ESAD Amiens calls for post-diplôme applications
The ésad in Amiens opens a new round of applications for the post-diplôme programme “typography and language”. In its 4th year, the programme takes a more explicit line with a clear focus on typeface design. Current student projects, ongoing research and staff specialisations supported this development. Small classes, international staff with a multidisciplinary outlook and […]
ICTVC 2010, Nicosia, Cyprus
The biannual ICTVC conference is going to start next week in Nicosia, Cyprus. From the 15. to the 19. of June, a series of workshops and the three-day main conference will discuss this year’s theme of ‘Lending grace to language’. It is the fourth time this conference on typography takes place and the first time […]
back in Marrakech with a prize in the pocket
I am back at the ESAV in Marrakech for another week of type education with the second year students in the Laboratoire Expérimental de Typographie Arabe. During my first week in March we worked with stencils, as I described briefly in this earlier post. However, the stencil work, chosen to add a manual component to […]
TDC² 2010 award for Aisha
The TDC² 2010 awards have just been announced and I am very happy for two reasons. Firstly, my latest typeface Aisha, a multiscript Arabic and Latin typeface, has been awarded a certificate of excellence in type design. After Nassim’s 2007 award in the same category, I am very pleased that Aisha is seen as a […]
Workshop ESAV, March 1 to 5, 2010
I’ve come to Marrakech for my first workshop at the École Supérieure des Arts Visuelles, graphic design department. It is my first time in Morocco and teaching typography in this context was a very exciting prospect to start with; returning to the Maghreb where I had spent a considerable amount of time as a child […]
Talk February 24 at the MQ
Tonight February 24 I’ll give a talk in the tga series “vor Ort”; its title is “Typographische Reisen” and it will happen at 19h in the designforum in the MQ, Vienna, Austria. Entrance is free!
Starting up now…
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