Typographics Conference

CONFERENCES | 12 JUNE 2015

Typographics is a 10-day design festival devoted to contemporary typography, with talks, workshops, and tours focusing on where typography is today and where its future may lie. It will be held at Cooper Union in New York City as a combined effort of Type@Cooper and the Herb Lubalin Study Center, with a big helping hand from Roger Black. Christian Schwartz will be speaking on newspaper type on Saturday morning, alongside such luminaries as Alex Trochut, Barbara Glauber, Juan Carlos Pagan, and Erik van Blokland. Commercial Type is proud to be a sponsor of what is sure to be a great event.

EVENTS | CONFERENCES | 9 APRIL 2015

Christian Schwartz at the SND conference in Washington, DC

Christian Schwartz will be speaking on designing type for newspapers at a special session on type and typography at the Society for News Design conference in Washington, DC. For more information, see the main conference site or this page with info in the special session.
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Thu–Sat, 9–11 April 2015

Type session at The Washington Post

1150 15th Street NW

Washington DC 20071

 

Main conference at The Newseum

555 Pennsylvania Ave NW

Washington DC 20001

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Conference registration required to attend the special session
NEWSPAPERS, PUBLICATIONS, CUSTOM TYPEFACES | 12 MAY 2015

New typefaces for the 29 daily newspapers published by The McClatchy Company, starting with 3 in California

The McClatchy Company publishes 29 daily newspapers across the US. Working with Garcia Media, they have spent the last year developing a unified design language that will bring together the print papers, mobile apps, and web editions with a more consistent overall look. We designed a set of typefaces that will help to bridge the gap between design consistency and individual character.
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