Jean François Porchez speaking at TDC 59 Paris
The École de Communication Visuelle (ECV) has invited Jean François Porchez to speak about Typofonderie and ZeCraft recent projects. Jean François is in charge of the Typography master launched in 2012 at ECV. The lecture will be held in the same place as the TDC59 exhibition that is also being organized by ECV.
Flea market Typo 2013
The flea market Typo 2013 (Puces typo 2013) is an event organised by the Rencontres internationales de Lure in Paris. A good place to meet lots of local typophiles, graphic designers and so on. We are happy to participate this year and to join a bunch of independent publishers, foundries, designers who will propose surprises and bargains for all tastes and all budgets.
Typecache Best 2012: Geneo
New fonts are released everyday from around the world. When Typecache was launched in May 2012, their mission was to share the best and latest in type design. The newsfeed and “font clusters” are on Typecache are proof that great type work is being made everyday. 2013 has already brought many great fonts.
Ben Barrett-Forrest about his animated history of typography
Ben Barrett-Forrest, from Forrest Media presents a stop-motion version of the history of the history of typography. Since Johannes Gutenberg and his invention of printing using movable type, he goes on to track the different types that have emerged and diverged since Nicolas Jenson’s invention of roman typeface. We asked him a few questions…
Typofonderie desktop wallpaper #13 (Mislab)
Time to time, we offer several desktop wallpapers, download them and enjoy! The new wallpaper is set in Mislab, a typeface designed by Xavier Dupré, exclusively distributed by Typofonderie.
In use: Modern Art Club
Amélie Lebleu is a graphic designer in love with typography. On her portfolio we can find quite good exhibit catalogs and exhibit identities. For Musée du Luxembourg she opted for a real typographical bias: rather than designing a catalog including reproductions of paintings, she deliberately and solely focused on typography, a unique typeface, a unique Apolline weight but two colors.
Mislab, a new design by Xavier Dupré
Referred to as Egyptian’s in the early years of the nineteenth century, today slab serifs are primarily used in display sizes but seldom used in body text. With Mislab, Xavier Dupré has designed a brighter and more legible slab serif than most. Mislab aptly combines the strength of a slab serif with the lightness of a sans serif. Bold and thick serifs make for strong impact in display uses while performing extremely well under the most stressful body text conditions.
Report of the 2013’s Adobe FDK workshop at Typofonderie
Last week, Typofonderie hosted a Adobe FDK workshop for the first time. This workshop was conducted by Miguel Sousa, who comes specially from the production department font Adobe, San Jose, United States. All participants were fully satisfied with their three days spent to learn how to manage font production following Adobe methods.
The typographic bags 2013 are there
As designers we all appreciate tangible things and not just digital tools such as our fonts yet fabulously useful in everyday life. This is why we love Typofonderie’s printed specimens, stickers, and other objects that remind us of our love of typography. We are happy to announce the launch of a new Typographic bag.
A epigraphic journey the side of good and evil
The graphic designer and author, Philippe Buschinger was invited to present his new book during a lecture on February 2013. It was at the Centre Pompidou during the Book Machine project, an event of the fourth edition of the New festival 2013 Centre Pompidou and during which he shared his enthusiasm for the Blackletter, from its use to the reasons of its very frequent use in the contemporary urban landscape!