I was in Hamburg last month at the kind invitation of the Peter Schmidt Group, who asked me to speak at their Beyond Type event. Despite the jet lag, I managed to speak in full sentences about the future of typography as I see it.
Category: ultratypographic
Dazed issue 48, November 1998
This is and will always be the best pop song about typography.
The Western Front
LCARS
The Future of Typography
I was asked to speak at Adobe MAX once again this year, which gave me another opportunity to try and get people excited about some of the latest developments in font technology, and why I think they’ll prove to be significant. Sadly, of the two versions of this talk I gave at MAX, the less successful session was the one recorded. This one was held in a large hall subdivided into a number of rooms with curtains, and there’s a whole lot of audio interference from the other rooms, which made it hard for me to concentrate when speaking, and also screwed up the recording quite a bit. Nevertheless, there are some good nuggets you might enjoy.
Mincing in Sheffield
Aaaargh! Pink Mince and some of the source material for the “Punk Mince” and “The Stroke” issues is featured in this incredible exhibition about Letraset at the Sheffield Institute of Arts and I want to see it SO MUCH. The exhibition is connected to Letraset: The DIY Typography Revolution, the fantastic book about Letraset and its history that was published this year, which included an interview with me, some photos of Pink Mince, and lots of photos of items form my collection of Letraset sheets, ephemera, and paraphernalia.
Letraset: The DIY Typography Revolution
Aaaargh! Pink Mince and some of the source material for the “Punk Mince” and “The Stroke” issues is featured in this incredible exhibition about Letraset at the Sheffield Institute of Arts and I want to see it SO MUCH. The exhibition is connected to Letraset: The DIY Typography Revolution, the fantastic book about Letraset and its history that was published this year, which included an interview with me, some photos of Pink Mince, and lots of photos of items form my collection of Letraset sheets, ephemera, and paraphernalia.
Hanging out at the Hamilton
Hanging out at the Hamilton Wood Type & Printing Museum
Mood!!
Mood‼️ (at Hamilton Wood Type & Printing Museum)
Shortlist UAE
I recently got back from Dubai, where I’d been invited to speak at the -ing Creative Festival. Super fun, but that’s another story altogether. The PR team of the festival lined me up with Shortlist’s local edition for a feature where they ask someone each week to reimagine their masthead, and then ask a few questions. Here’s my take on it, plus the interview that ran in the magazine the week that I was in town.
