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| Do you get to go back to making some now? |
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| Another enriching . Impressed with the program overall, especially the invitation to Russia and Poland to curate tracks. |
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| Yes! Laura and I were inside for 2 mins. In courtyard for an hour or so. |
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Yet here I am at 2:40 checking my Twitter. [Sad horn sound.]
Courtyard was nice though. If they added bonfire there it would do. |
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| “: ” A perfect visualization of the kind of type conference parties I don’t like. I must be an old man. |
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| Portfolio talks: it’s more interesting for a design audience to see what failed than what worked. We can see the final on your site. |
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| Questions for H Kubel at party: Formica as sign material, Calvert as coworker, Off White as font weight, sleeping as option |
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| Packed . More each yr. Neue groupies & hipster fans who “went to these gigs before they were cool” |
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| Gravestones, signs, mags, lettering-to-font, origin of the sans, specimens, stencils, ticks all the typoholic’s boxes. |
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| Paul Barnes maybe should be on main stage. No empty seats in this smaller room. Perhaps ’s Hall reached its Brit max yesterday. |
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| he was debunking the common notion that type designers work as lone wolves. |
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| : there are very few individuals making a living on their own. Most are part of a group. |
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| Gerry Leonidas: "Don't specify what people will learn, specify what problems they should start to solve." |
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| Leonidas: there are very few individuals making a living in type design on their own (Tankard, Simonson). Most are part of groups. |
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| Rewarding for Bessemans to have direct contact w/ readers as she designed. Most type designers have filters (publisher, client). |
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| … Int. validity (parameters from scientists) must be balanced w/ ext. (optical corrections by type designers) |
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| Ann Bessemans: lack of collab between scientists & designers is one reason why legibility research often produces useless results. |
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