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  • Typografika in Designnet / NewWebPick

    My wee studio featured in Korea and China. Above: Spread from Designnet Magazine (May, 2011). It’s humbling and exciting to have my work featured in two publications, Designnet in Korea and NewWebPick (No.33) in China. I am grateful to the editors for their invitation and kindness. The Designnet feature covered efforts to help Japan and [...]

    Posted on May 10.11 to Aktuell, Education, Ephemera, Geotypografika, Globalization, Graphic Design, International, Internet, Interviews, Minneapolis, News Links, Typografika, Typography   11 Comments   

  • Dan Sinclair / Elliott Earls

    MCAD student initiates Skype interview series. Above: 18×24 poster by MCAD student Dan Sinclair, March, 2010. In exciting news, Dan is organizing Skype interview sessions and started things off last Friday with Elliott Earls. His hope is to extend the exposure our community has with active designers and artists, and, in concert with the MCAD [...]

    Posted on Mar 12.10 to Aktuell, Education, Ephemera, Geotypografika, Globalization, Graphic Design, International, Internet, Interviews, MCAD, Minneapolis, News Links, Typografika, Typography   1 Comment   

  • Yossi Lemel / Holocaust Memories

    Our hero interviewed by Leadel. Above: Yossi Lemel via Leadel, discussing his deeply moving work on his family and the Holocaust. Bravo, Yossi, bravo.

    Posted on Jan 27.10 to Aktuell, Art, Education, Film, Geotypografika, Graphic Design, International, Internet, Interviews, News Links, Photography, Typografika, Unreasoned Love, Video   1 Comment   

  • Khatt Network / Al Jazeera Interview

    Huda Smitshuijzen AbiFarès interviewed on Arabic type issues. Above: Via the Khatt Network, an excellent interview with the Arabic type network’s founder on Al Jazeera‘s Artsworld.

    Posted on Nov 06.09 to Aktuell, Education, Geotypografika, Globalization, Graphic Design, International, Internet, Interviews, News Links, Typografika, Typography   1 Comment   

  • Shirin Neshat / Women Without Men

    Speaking out on and analyzing the Green Revolution. Above: Via FLYP Media, Shirin Neshat, director of the film, Women Without Men, see trailer below. A invaluable resource to help gain a more balanced historical perspective during these times. Simply amazing. Mamnoon am, Shahram!

    Posted on Jul 09.09 to Aktuell, Art, Education, Film, Free Radicals, Geotypografika, Globalization, Graphic Design, International, Internet, Interviews, News Links, Typografika, Typography, Video   1 Comment   

  • Newstalgia / 1964 Che Guevara Interview

    Audio from ABC’s Issues and Answers interview in Havana. Above: Issues and Answers graphics from 1974, much later than the story in question!  In a remarkable post, C&L and sister site Newstalgia provide audio from Lisa Howard’s 1964 interview with then Minister of Industries, Major Guevara. A remarkable document.

    Posted on Apr 20.09 to Aktuell, Education, Geotypografika, Globalization, Graphic Design, International, Internet, Interviews, News Links, Typografika, Typography, Video   1 Comment   

  • Plumbing Tool

    Say it ain’t so, Joe. Above: Plumbing tools. Joe the Plumber, a shooting star thanks to yesterday’s impromptu debate with Obama before the real deal with McCain. His real name is: Samuel Wurzelbacher. Guess what? He is not a plumber (New York Times). “An official at Local 50 of the plumber’s union, based in Toledo, [...]

    Posted on Oct 16.08 to Aktuell, Education, Globalization, International, Interviews, News Links, Typografika   1 Comment   

  • To all Running Dogs of Capitalism

    Above: O Povo, from Fortaleza, Brazil. Via Newseum. Geotypografika: To all Running Dogs of Capitalism Respected global members of the greater capitalist infrastructure, your theme for the week: Think positive and remember us little people you effing’ bastardos! Oye, mira! A happy market place equals a school yard. Basta! Above: Via Der Spiegel, Reuters/Philippe Wojazer. [...]

    Posted on Oct 12.08 to Aktuell, Art, Education, Free Radicals, Globalization, Graphic Design, International, Interviews, Minneapolis, News Links, Typografika, Typography   Add a Comment   

  • Typeradio / Reza Abedini

    Now he is talking. Above: Poster by Reza Abedini. Apropo visual language, here is a new interview via Typeradio in Amsterdam. The Iranian master and the Dutch hosts, Donald Beekman and Liza Enebeis, warmly stumble to understand each other at the beginning, but a fascinating exchange ensues. Amongst many interesting topics, Reza gives a good [...]

    Posted on Oct 05.08 to Aktuell, Education, Globalization, Graphic Design, International, Interviews, News Links, Typografika, Typography   Add a Comment   

  • United Daily News

    Taipei, Taiwan Above: United Daily News, from Taipei, Taiwan. Check in with Newseum daily. Front pages and links to newspapers around the world. For more, the NYTimes has an informative interactive review of these past few weeks of falling arrows. Der Spiegel (English version) has a good overview of the escalating fallout in Europe.

    Posted on Sep 30.08 to Aktuell, Education, Globalization, Graphic Design, International, Interviews, News Links, Typografika, Typography   Add a Comment   

  • Democracy Now!

    Reporters arrested covering RNC will not be charged. Above: St. Paul, MN, Sept. 4, 2008. A photo I took of some reporters gathered to observe a small crowd that day. The main march was cross from this bridge, and this group occasionally chanted words of support. In the news, St. Paul has released a statement [...]

    Posted on Sep 20.08 to Aktuell, Art, Free Radicals, Globalization, International, Interviews, Minneapolis, News Links, Typografika   Add a Comment   

  • City Pages / Matt Snyders’ RNC Arrest

    St. Paul, MN Above: A photo I took on the way home on Thursday, Sept. 4, 2008. City Pages reporter Matt Snyders has his version of last weeks concluding RNC events online. Mr. Snyders was seated next to me as we waited through the process for several hours, and was arrested himself (his credentials blatantly [...]

    Posted on Sep 11.08 to Aktuell, Art, Education, Free Radicals, International, Interviews, Minneapolis, News Links, Site Q, Typografika   Add a Comment   

  • An arresting development.

    St. Paul, Minnesota Above: From the Star Tribune’s photo series from last night (Sept.4, 2008). That’s me on the left with my old black messenger bag. (Thanks to K for finding this.) As it happens, a friend and I were caught between two opposing sides last night and were arrested while we were trying to [...]

    Posted on Sep 05.08 to Aktuell, Art, International, Interviews, Minneapolis, News Links, Site Q, Typografika, Video   5 Comments   

  • Guardian / Polish Posters

    Film Poster History and Analysis Above: From the Guardian, a welcome review by Paul Rennie on the history of the Polish film poster. With Poland playing an awkward role in the renewal of archaic Cold War tensions and games, the irony of this history of state-sponsored design is striking. Tangentially, it is also interesting to [...]

    Posted on Sep 01.08 to Aktuell, Free Radicals, Globalization, International, Interviews, Minneapolis, News Links, Site Q, Typografika   Add a Comment   

  • Apropo aluminum cans…

    Coke adds life. Above: From a pack of Coca-Cola in Minneapolis. Chris Jordan’s latest reminded me of a lost text pic from Lathrop and these cross-cultural messages (tied to a mono-culture product), from Coca-Cola’s latest campaign. The can on the left is from Thailand, and, on the right, Ethiopia. The cans on the inside? All [...]

    Posted on Jul 31.08 to Aktuell, Globalization, International, Interviews, Minneapolis, Typografika   Add a Comment   

  • Bernard Canniffe / USA-UAE

    Graphic Design Students Engage in a “Social/Cultural Intervention.” Above: Process board from an ongoing exchange in Dubai between MICA (Baltimore) and students from Zayed University. The project involves a collaboration between students and faculty led by Bernard Canniffe (MICA), Dr. Nanci Takeyama (GD Instructor from Zayed University) and Peter Chomowicz (Env. Design Chair MICA). Bernard [...]

    Posted on Jul 03.08 to Aktuell, Art, Free Radicals, Globalization, International, Interviews, News Links, Site Q, Typografika   Add a Comment   

  • Aftonbladet

    Stockholm, Sweden Above: Your columns got you down? Good medicine for a bad type day, one can always rely on some pulse-raising zeug from the Aftonbladet. Check in with Newseum daily, front pages from around the world.

    Posted on Jun 17.08 to Aktuell, Globalization, International, Interviews, News Links, Site Q, Typografika   2 Comments   

  • Free Radicals Still Swim

    Above: From a helmet-cam sequence by messenger/director Lucas Brunelle, a new version with a great track from Überdose (ignore the paint filter/slo-mo moment…)! The original footage is a true welcome to the jungle (and includes a priceless one-hit at the beginning, tee hee), and makes me think of twenty years ago today… DC Messengers were [...]

    Posted on Jun 04.08 to Aktuell, Free Radicals, International, Interviews, News Links   2 Comments   

  • Jean-Benoît Lévy / Helvetia + 10,700

    Guiness World Record Above: Jean-Benoît Lévy, from Studio AND, a Guiness World Record video short of a human scaled, 10,700 participants, version of Jean-Benoît’s Helvetia stamp (below). See more of his stamps here, and click here for an interview with this San Francisco based designer.

    Posted on May 22.08 to Aktuell, Globalization, International, Interviews   Add a Comment   

  • Jenny Tondera / Wim Crouwel

    Above: Wim Crouwel’s “New Alphabet” typeface, 1967. Tondera / Crouwel A fresh installment of Jenny’s interviews with contemporary designers on the Bauhaus. See her previous interviews with Michael Bierut, Experimental Jetset, Steven Heller, Paula Scher, Ellen Lupton, and Jessica Helfand. Jenny Tondera writes: Dutch designer Wim Crouwel (born 1928) is one of my favorite designers [...]

    Posted on Apr 22.08 to Aktuell, Interviews, Minneapolis   Add a Comment   

  • Jenny Tondera / Jessica Helfand

    Above: Cover of Jessica Helfand’s book Reinventing the Wheel (Princeton Architectural Press, 2002). Tondera / Helfand A fresh installment of Jenny’s interviews with contemporary designers on the Bauhaus. See her previous interviews with Michael Bierut, Experimental Jetset, Steven Heller, Paula Scher, and Ellen Lupton. Jenny Tondera writes: It was so heartwarming to receive such an [...]

    Posted on Apr 20.08 to Aktuell, Interviews, Minneapolis   Add a Comment   

  • Jenny Tondera / Ellen Lupton

    Above: The cover of “The ABC’s of Bauhaus, The Bauhaus and Design Theory” edited by Ellen Lupton and J. Abbott Miller. Princeton Architectural Press, 2000. Tondera / Lupton A fresh installment of Jenny’s interviews with contemporary designers on the Bauhaus. See her previous interviews with Michael Bierut, Experimental Jetset, Steven Heller, and Paula Scher. Jenny [...]

    Posted on Apr 10.08 to Aktuell, Interviews, Minneapolis   1 Comment   

  • PEN World Voices / Rattapallax

    International Film Feast in NYC, April 29 Above: A flyer front I designed recently for Ram Devineni, Rattapallax Editor and Founder. Images, from top to bottom, are stills from two featured films, Unfed by Jason Lam, and Some Days, by former US Poet Laureate Billy Collins. (See his film below.) The Rattapallax/PEN World Voices Literary [...]

    Posted on Apr 08.08 to Aktuell, International, Interviews, News Links, Site Q   4 Comments   

  • Jenny Tondera / Paula Scher

    Above: Paula Scher’s Citibank. Tondera / Scher A fresh installment of Jenny’s interviews with contemporary designers on the Bauhaus. See her previous interviews with Michael Bierut, Experimental Jetset, and Steven Heller. Jenny Tondera writes: I was first introduced to Paula Scher’s work at age 16 when I was a student at a pre-college program at [...]

    Posted on Apr 07.08 to Aktuell, Interviews, Minneapolis   2 Comments   

  • Jenny Tondera / Steven Heller

    Above: Cover of “Paul Rand” by Steven Heller. Design by Hans Dieter Reichert. Tondera / Heller A fresh installment of Jenny’s interviews with contemporary designers on the Bauhaus. See her previous interviews with Michael Bierut, and Experimental Jetset. Jenny Tondera writes: Known more for his art direction at The New York Times and his design [...]

    Posted on Apr 01.08 to Aktuell, International, Interviews   Add a Comment   

  • Jenny Tondera / Michael Bierut

    Above: A poster by Michael Bierut for the Yale School of Architecture. Tondera / Bierut A fresh installment of Jenny’s interviews with contemporary designers on the Bauhaus. See her previous interview with Experimental Jetset here. Jenny Tondera writes: Omnipresent in our current design culture, designer and design critic Michael Bierut works at Pentagram, is an [...]

    Posted on Mar 26.08 to Aktuell, International, Interviews, Minneapolis   Add a Comment   

  • Jenny Tondera / Experimental Jetset

    Above: Experimental Jetset poster for the Stedelijk Museum. Amsterdam, Holland.

    Posted on Mar 21.08 to Aktuell, Interviews   Add a Comment   

  • Jenny Tondera on Jenny Tondera

    Geotypografika welcomes a fabulous new contributor. Above: Grafik Gung Fu student Jenny surfaces at last. Jenny Tondera writes: Hello! My name is Jenny and I’m in my sophomore year studying graphic design at MCAD (Minneapolis College of Art and Design). I am currently working on an exciting project that I’d like to share with all [...]

    Posted on Mar 20.08 to Aktuell, Interviews, Minneapolis   Add a Comment   

  • Apple Daily / Taiwan Edition

    Today’s front page is from Taipei, Taiwan Also featured on the Resources page, check in with Newseum daily, front pages from around the world.

    Posted on Feb 21.08 to Aktuell, Interviews   Add a Comment   

  • Part DOS: Four Writing Systems and a Microphone

    Part Two: Asahi Shimbun front page from February 4, 2008. Geotypografika Kommentario: What follows is a continuation of a first posting, Part UNO: United Nations/Nations Unies? La Futura? Form can help create function, it does not simply have to follow. Typographic and graphic problems as metaphor for troubled and complex world organizational issues? Ja, warum [...]

    Posted on Feb 18.08 to Aktuell, Interviews   Add a Comment   

  • The West Australian

    Today’s front page is from Perth, Australia Also featured on the Resources page, check in with Newseum daily, front pages from around the world.

    Posted on Feb 18.08 to Aktuell, Interviews   Add a Comment   

  • Geotypografika Interview 005: Verena Gerlach

    Berlin (Type) Designer / Educator 001 Studio link fraugerlach Verena Gerlach (Type) Designer / Educator Berlin, Germany Geotypografika Interview 005 Verena Gerlach What developments are you following in the world of graphic design/typography today? VG Technical: I’m fascinated by the possibilities of the still young OpenType technology. My next font (FF Chambers Sans) design will [...]

    Posted on Feb 14.08 to Aktuell, Education, Geotypografika, Globalization, Graphic Design, International, Interviews, News Links, Typografika, Typography   Add a Comment   

  • Shinnoske Inc. / Shinnoske Sugisaki

    Graphic Designer / Osaka, Japan Above: Shinnoske Sugisaki, from his current exhibition in Hamburg, Germany. These will immediately remind you of Basel and Weingart. Above: Shinnoske Sugisaki, from his current exhibition in Hamburg, Germany. Above: From his recent Anonyma Exhibition. I love the contrast to the living visual environment just outside the hall, typical. Urban [...]

    Posted on Feb 14.08 to Aktuell, Interviews   Add a Comment   

  • Geotypografika Interview 004: James Bertoni

    Graphic Designer, San Francisco James Bertoni, Graphic Designer San Francisco, CA Estados Unidos 001 Portfolio Geotypografika Interview 004 James Bertoni What developments are you following in the world of graphic design/typography today? JB I am following the development of design as it relates to the online community. What new developments are occurring specific to your [...]

    Posted on Feb 12.08 to Aktuell, Education, Geotypografika, Globalization, Graphic Design, International, Interviews, News Links, Typografika, Typography   1 Comment   

  • Sacre Vache / Ragnar Freyr Pálsson

    From Iceland (via Michigan) with Love. Athvarf Poster / Veggsjald Litli Dímon og Kvennaathvarfið Dauði trúðsins Book cover / Bókakápa JPV Click here immediately, don’t read this. Well maybe just a little. I plan a much longer story, but the work speaks for itself. An amazing collection of contemporary work by Ragnar Freyr Pálsson, an [...]

    Posted on Jan 31.08 to Aktuell, Education, Free Radicals, Geotypografika, Globalization, Graphic Design, International, Internet, Interviews, MCAD, Minneapolis, Musica Viva, Typografika, Typography   4 Comments   

  • Geotypografika is one month old.

    Irashai! Welcome to the Backstube… There is a test proof of the new poster on my homasote. The banner up top used to hang on our house in Bellefonte (we lived across the street from a little league baseball diamond). It worked. Type is Akzidenz Grotesk by the way. This? Well, I am Arial, pleasure [...]

    Posted on Jan 31.08 to Aktuell, Education, Geotypografika, Globalization, Graphic Design, International, Internet, Interviews, Minneapolis, News Links, Typografika, Typography, Unreasoned Love   Add a Comment   

  • Geotypografika Interview 003: Jerrold Maddox

    Professor of Art, Photographer, Web Designer Jerrold Maddox Professor of Art, Photographer, Web Designer State College, PA Estados Unidos 001 Site Design Examples: FrontRowPhotos, Center for Well Being 002 Course Sites: One, Two 003 Personal Work: One, Two, Three 004 Typographic Work: here Above: Umbrellas. Geotypo Interview 003 Jerrold Maddox What developments are you following [...]

    Posted on Jan 31.08 to Aktuell, Education, Geotypografika, Globalization, Graphic Design, International, Internet, Interviews, News Links, Typografika   Add a Comment   

  • PingMag / Malaysian Engravings

    Look into these, amazing… Excellent feature on a certain Mr. King, here. Humbling. Story by Ian Lynam, look into his work here (studio in Japan!).

    Posted on Jan 30.08 to Aktuell, Education, Geotypografika, Globalization, Graphic Design, International, Internet, Interviews, News Links, Typografika, Typography   1 Comment   

  • Heller in Design Observer

    An excellent article on Wilhelm Deffke Fascinating little piece with massive implications, typical of Heller to unearth these stimulating and controversial gems.

    Posted on Jan 30.08 to Aktuell, Education, Geotypografika, Globalization, Graphic Design, International, Internet, Interviews, News Links, Newspaper Front Pages, Typografika, Typography   Add a Comment   

  • Diario de Yucatan

    Today’s featured front page is from Yucatán, Mexico. Check in with Newseum daily, front pages from around the world. Quite the education.

    Posted on Jan 29.08 to Aktuell, Education, Geotypografika, Globalization, Graphic Design, International, Internet, Interviews, News Links, Newspaper Front Pages, Typografika, Typography   Add a Comment   

  • Modeling in India: But who are the models?

    This just forwarded by Ben Wood… In India’s Huge Marketplace, Advertisers Find Fair Skin Sells By Rama Lakshmi, Washington Post Foreign Service Sunday, January 27, 2008 “MUMBAI The TV ad shows an Indian movie star walking on a beach, flaunting his brand-name sunglasses and his six-pack abs. A white woman in a black bikini drops [...]

    Posted on Jan 28.08 to Aktuell, Education, Geotypografika, Globalization, Graphic Design, International, Internet, Interviews, News Links, Typografika, Typography   3 Comments   

  • Aktuell / Artsmonitor

    New Feature in Resources My friend JBL, recently featured in Interviews, just sent along this fantastic recommendation. Look into the Artsmonitor’s extensive graphic design section (as well as their other resources). They feature news links to many relevant and contemporary news sources. A welcome find!

    Posted on Jan 28.08 to Aktuell, Art, Education, Geotypografika, Globalization, Graphic Design, International, Internet, Interviews, News Links, Typografika, Typography   Add a Comment   

  • Geotypografika Interview 002: Bernard Caniffe

    Designer/Educator. Welsh. Above: Blue Collar Theory. I know Bernard as an intensely intellectual and entertaining educator. In this interview, he generously offers his keen insight into the contemporary world. Bernard Canniffe: Designer/Educator Baltimore, USA Estados Unidos Studio: Blue Collar Theory and Piece Studio 001 ALR Design 002 project {m} Above: Link to (and from) Project [...]

    Posted on Jan 26.08 to Aktuell, Education, Geotypografika, Globalization, Graphic Design, International, Interviews, Typografika, Typography   2 Comments   

  • Persian Gulf Studio Visit

    Doha, Qatar: Manar Al-Muftah Manar, featured earlier, is a young Qatari artist preparing for her upcoming show, and has generously shared this glimpse into her studio. Above: Various ephemera. Above: Family. Above: Cabbage Patch collection. Like many of us, Manar is inspired by Reza Abedini. Here are some framed cards she received from him. Above: [...]

    Posted on Jan 26.08 to Aktuell, Art, Education, Ephemera, Geotypografika, Globalization, Graphic Design, International, Interviews, Musica Viva, News Links, Typografika, Typography   5 Comments   

  • Geotypografika Interview 001: Jean-Benoît Lévy

    You can take the boy out of Switzerland, but you can’t take the Switzerland out of the boy. Above: JBL as himself. Please take time to examine his h-and-s font, a font developed as an international language. An AGI member, he is an internationally known poster designer. Geotypografika knows him best as a devoted teacher, [...]

    Posted on Jan 26.08 to Aktuell, Education, Geotypografika, Globalization, Graphic Design, International, Internet, Interviews, News Links, Typografika, Typography   3 Comments   

  • Coming Soon

    Geotypografika Interview Questions Go to Eleven Above: Old school days sketch from my Flügel Serie. 1997. Photocopy, pencil, colored pencil. I am very pleased to be posting some early returns from my interview request release last week. This list included artists, writers, typographers, graphic designers, students (young and old), professionals, and dear friends. I have [...]

    Posted on Jan 24.08 to Aktuell, Education, Geotypografika, Graphic Design, International, Internet, Interviews, News Links, Typografika, Typography   Add a Comment   

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