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| 28 MARCH 2016
Post No Bills: Tanja in use
Our neighborhood in New York is full of construction sites, so we made some stencils to see how Tanja would work in a more utilitarian setting.
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| 22 MARCH 2016
New release: Tanja
Typefaces made from circles are an intriguing proposition for graphic designers. Many are created for technical reasons, such as for dot matrix printers, or for large screens at sports events. Usually these are simple sans serif forms, but Tanja is something unique; a Renaissance dot typeface.
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| 11 MARCH 2016
Christian speaking in Montréal
Christian will be speaking in Montréal on Friday 11 March, at an event hosted by Concordia University.
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Friday, 11 March 2016, Doors open at 5:30
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Concordia University
1515 St. Catherine St. West
EV 6.720 (6th floor, enter from the garage door)
Montreal, Quebec H3G 2W1
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| 8 MARCH 2016
Type Tuesday at St Bride Library
Paul will be MCing Eye Magazine's next Type Tuesday event at St Bride Library.
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| 29 FEBRUARY 2016
New release: Algebra by Susana Carvalho and Kai Bernau
Algebra is a broad-shouldered slab serif typeface built on superelliptical forms, designed by Susana Carvalho and Kai Bernau. Its loose spacing gives a remarkably comfortable texture in text, and its crisp detailing gives a distinctive and serious feeling at display sizes. Algebra balances strength with elegance.
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EVENTS
| 24 FEBRUARY 2016
Coralie Bickford-Smith & Paul Barnes speaking in Reading
Paul will appear in conversation with author Coralie Bickford-Smith in celebration of Reading 2016 Year of Culture. The event will be MCed by Eric Kindel.
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Wednesday, 24 February 2016, beginning at 19:30
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Waterstones Reading - Broad Street
United Reform Building
89a Broad Street
Reading, RG1 2AP
| 26 JANUARY 2016
New release: Marr Sans Condensed
Commercial Type’s second release of 2016 is Marr Sans Condensed, an expansion of Marr Sans. Designed by young Croatian designer Hrvoje Živčić, its a welcome addition to the original developed by Paul Barnes and Dave Foster in 2014.
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| 12 JANUARY 2016
New release: Action Condensed by Erik van Blokland
Action Condensed was designed for the screen by Dutch type design legend Erik van Blokland, who was looking for typefaces for interface design without an overtly neutral personality. Each of the family’s four weights has three grades on the same width, allowing text to change weight on rollover without disrupting the layout.
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| 30 NOVEMBER 2015
Workshop and Lecture by Greg Gazdowicz at Cranbrook
Greg will be at the prestigious Cranbrook Academy of Art, giving a lecture on his work and teaching a two-day introductory workshop on type design, focusing on sketching and quickly generating ideas.
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30 November–2 December 2015
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Cranbrook Academy of Art
39221 Woodward Avenue
Bloomfield Hills, MI
48303-0801
Only open to students in the 2D Design Department.
| 23 NOVEMBER 2015
Cyrillic and Greek support added to Graphik
Graphik now supports Greek and a number of languages that use the Cyrilic alphabet, including Russian, Ukrainian, Belorussian, Bulgarian, and Serbian. The Cyrillic was drawn by Ilya Ruderman, and the Greek was drawn by Panos Haratzopoulos.
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| 30 OCTOBER 2015
Christian Schwartz speaking at BITS MMXV in Bangkok
Christian Schwartz will be speaking at this year's Bankgok International Typographic Symposium (BITS), the biggest international type conference in Asia. He will also be conducting a special workshop the day before. Please visit the conference site for more details.
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30 October–1 November 2015
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Workshop at Thailand Creative & Design Center
622 Emporium Tower 24th Fl.,
Sukhumvit 24 Rd.
Klongton, Klongtoey
Bangkok 10110
Conference at Bangkok Art and Culture Centre
939 Rama 1 Rd
Pathum Wan
Bangkok 10330
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| 28 OCTOBER 2015
Christian Schwartz in Singapore for LetterLove #1
Christian will be speaking at the inaugural LetterLove, a brand new quarterly series of talks aimed to build awareness of typography and type design education in Singapore and the region, organized by our friends Mark & Sarah de Winne of Relay Room.
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Wednesday, 28 October 2015, 7:30pm
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Matrix Auditorium, Biopolis
(Matrix Building, Level 2)
Singapore
Tickets $28 (Standard), $18 (Student). Early Bird Standard tickets $25 before 1 October. Prices are in Singapore dollars.
| 13 OCTOBER 2015
Sekford Type 1A watch released
Commercial Type has provided the numbers and other lettering for a new watch that celebrates English heritage.
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EVENTS
| 1 OCTOBER 2015
Miguel Reyes lecture in Mexico City
As part of the new postgraduate program called “Type Innovation” at CENTRO, Diseño, cine y televisión in Mexico City, Miguel Reyes will be teaching the introductory course on Letter Design. In advance of the first class, Miguel will give a public lecture on his work with Commercial Type.
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Thursday, 1 October 2015, 4pm
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CENTRO. Diseño, cine y televisión
Avenida Constituyentes 455
América, Miguel Hidalgo. México DF
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| 19 SEPTEMBER 2015
Christian Schwartz speaking at Serebro Nabora in Moscow
Christian Schwartz will be taking a brief side trip during the North American tour to speak at Serebro Nabora, a type conference in Moscow.
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Sat–Sun, 19–20 September 2015
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Central House of Architects
Moscow, Granatny pereulok, 7 bld. 1
| 15 SEPTEMBER 2015
Gingrich for the 1000th issue of Esquire
Christian Schwartz drew a new display serif face called Gingrich for the 1000th issue of Esquire. The typeface is named for the founding editor of the magazine.
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| 3 SEPTEMBER 2015
FitFont from Type Project
We have licensed a number of our typefaces to serve as the Latin portion of Japanese typefaces available through the unique FitFont service by Type Project.
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| 1 SEPTEMBER 2015
2015 North American Tour
Paul and Christian will be giving a series of 20 lectures across North America in September and October, starting in Vancouver and ending in Washington DC. More info inside.
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1 September–23 October 2015
September
1 Tuesday Vancouver SOLD OUT
3 Thursday Seattle
8 Tuesday Chicago SOLD OUT
10 Thursday Salt Lake City
12 Saturday Minneapolis
16 Wednesday Dallas
20 Sunday St Louis
21 Monday San Francisco SOLD OUT
23 Wednesday Austin SOLD OUT
24 Thursday Houston
28 Monday Baton Rouge
30 Wednesday New York SOLD OUT
October
1 Thursday Pittsburgh
8 Thursday Akron SOLD OUT
13 Tuesday Philadelphia
16 Friday Nashville
20 Tuesday Raleigh Will be rescheduled
21 Wednesday Richmond
22 Thursday Baltimore
23 Friday Washington, DC
| 27 AUGUST 2015
New release: Sanomat Sans
Commercial Type is pleased to announce the release of Sanomat Sans, a geometric sans with a wide range of weights in both display and text variants, originally drawn for the 2013 redesign of Finnish newspaper Helsingin Sanomat, including its digital and broadcast divisions.
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| 23 AUGUST 2015
Graphik Round for the 2015 Hot Ten in Bon Appétit
Christian Schwartz drew Graphik Round Black for Bon Appétit's 2015 Hot Ten, their annual roundup of the ten best new restaurants in the US.
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