Archive for May, 2009
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May 15th, 2009
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May 15th, 2009
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May 15th, 2009
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May 15th, 2009
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May 15th, 2009
Type Directors Club call-for-entries design
Type Directors Club
multi-fold call-for-entries for TDC type-design competition
john-d-berry-portfolio-Type-Directors-Club-call-for-entries.jpg
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May 15th, 2009
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May 15th, 2009
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May 15th, 2009
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May 15th, 2009
Incriminating evidence: Type90
The first type conference I ever attended was Type90, the 1990 ATypI conference in Oxford, England. It was also the first ATypI event that was truly a conference, widely publicized, rather than a “congress” of insiders. Type90 was the brainchild of Roger Black, who even then was a well-known editorial designer and had just co-founded the Font Bureau. This year’s ATypI conference, the first one in Mexico City, is also Roger’s brainchild, which is one of the reason’s he pushed to have it called “Typ09,” as a sort of allusion to or inversion of Type90.
At Type90, I was a newcomer; I knew only a couple of people there, though I knew a few others by reputation. Several of us relative newcomers ended up hanging out together during the weekend; a number of friendships began there.
Not too long ago Thom Feild unearthed a photo from Type90, showing a bunch of us in a pub on the final day of the conference. Recognize anyone?
[Photo (counterclockwise from lower left): Phil Baines (London), Tom Bee (Edinburgh), Susan Skarsgard (Ann Arbor), me (Seattle), Iskra Johnson (Seattle), Thom Feild (Seattle), random local at the table behind us (Oxford, presumably), and April from Apple (Cupertino; sorry, neither Thom nor I can remember her last name). Photo copyright by Thom Feild. Slightly larger version here.]
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May 15th, 2009
Stable Strategies campaign
A self-running Adobe Acrobat presentation showing the elements of the promotional campaign for Eileen Gunn’s Stable Strategies and Others (San Francisco: Tachyon Publications, 2004):
Stable Strategies campaign (576K PDF file)
To download file: right-click (Windows) or Ctrl-click (Mac) and select “download…”).
Then open in Adobe Acrobat Reader; it should open in full-screen mode and run automatically.
If you open the file directly in a browser, use the arrow keys to navigate through the presentation.
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