Type In Berlin

Alessia Sistori from @designstudio_b.o.b and Yi Meng Wu from Studio Wu will be showing off their works this week at Type Thursday. Check TT's Instagram for more info (get your ticket here).

Selected artworks of the Tokyo TDC annual awards 2021 + 2022

The Center of Visual Arts Berlin would love to show the exhibition “Tokyo TDC in Berlin – Selected artworks of the Tokyo TDC annual awards 2021 + 2022”. With our exhibition we want to give the Tokyo TDC a platform here in Berlin as well as show the cultural contrast between the different artworks.

Our gallery is meant to be a space that supports cultural exchange and so we will be exhibiting works selected by the Tokyo TDC in the last two years, with some items unfortunately missing due to restrictions caused by Covid-19 and by the German customs. We look forward to seeing you there.

Timeframe: 30 October – 20 December

Location: Center for Visual Arts Berlin Unter den Eichen 101 D-12203 Berlin Germany

This month's Typostammtisch will showcase two amazing design studios!

Studio Pandan @studiopandan and Eps51 @eps51 share a building (on Möckernstraße) and a specialist area (typography). Founders Pia Christmann and Ann Richter (Studio Pandan), and founders Ben Wittner and Sascha Thoma (Eps51) will share insights into their work and their approach to typography.

⏰ 19:00, Thursday September 29th, 2022 📍 LucasFonts, Eisenacher Straße 56

Silvana typeface launch and exhibition opening!!! 💥🚀 2,5 years of introspective work has come to an end, and it’s time to celebrate the result in a more social manner!

The installation explores how a type specimen can be experienced spatially, in dialogue with its surrounding architecture, and is presented in collaboration with @paleworks who will support the installation with their Flow Modular, a Bauhaus inspired structure made of tubular steel.

Come to the iconic Buchstabenmuseum for drinks, food, tunes and a type design installation from 6pm on Thursday, September 15.

@typethursdayber are bringing their community too, so there will be lots of opportunities to meet and greet with fellow type enthusiasts while enjoying tunes provided by the finest fellow @theboysclubberlinboys @vikunia_illustration and @lotsofbroth .

Be there, ok?? 🫶🏻

Johannes is giving a type design lecture and “first steps” workshop at the newly opened Apple store in Berlin. 🍏 Amongst other things, it’ll explore how to develop fonts using the Apple Pencil and iPad. The event is open to everyone and you can RSVP via apple.co/dinamo-typefaces. Travel with J from Neukölln to scary Mitte and watch him sweat in his thrifted blue jeans and black turtle neck...⁠

They Typpostammtisch is back! This month the event will be 3 days long and feature 2 years of new fonts being shown off.

Here are the most important bits:

Thursday, 19. May 2022

17:00 – Lecture by Petra Dočekalová and Radek Sidun 19:00 – Mastering Type exhibition opening This show will present the Masters typeface projects from the last two years of students from The Hague, Reading, and Prague

Friday, 20. May 2022

11:00-16:00 – Workshop by Petra Dočekalová and Radek Sidun (Registration required) 16:00-18:00 – Exhibition is open

Saturday, 21. May 2022

15:00 – Alumni Lectures Presentations of their type & research projects by the students: Céline Hurka, Jan Šindler, Léna Le Pommelet, Lukas Horn, Oleksandr Parkhomovskyy, Simon Thiefes, and Sophia Tai (and maybe more). 15:00–19:00 – Exhibition is open

Where?

Medienhaus der Universität der Künste Berlin Grunewaldstraße 2–5, 10823 Berlin

Exhibition and lectures in the gallery on the ground floor, workshop room will be announced to registered participants

Subway: Line U7, Kleistpark Station Bus: Lines 106, 187, 204, M48, M85, N7, Kleistpark Stop

Jan Fromm’s Nice™ is a complex type system with an enormous range of typographic possibilities. The refreshing serif superfamily shines with four perfectly harmonized optical sizes.

Currently on show is the exhibition titled "Textbilder: Aphorismen und Zitate" ("Text Pictures: Aphorisms and Quotations") at the Mark-Twain-Bibliothek. This is your chance to venture outside the ring and to see some wonderful typographic posters by a Berlin design legend.

More inför about the exhibition (in German)

There's also an interview (in German) with Klaus so you can hear more about him and his work.

The exhibition runs until April 29, 2022.

Once again LIVE & IN PERSON, this will be an extra special Type Thursday! It won’t be the typical evening of listening, watching, and being inspired by awesome presenters… Nope. March’s event will involve drawing, chatting, drinking beer, and cooking up some fresh type!

First and foremost, it’s about Type Cooking. This is a fun & inspiring activity/tool that is guaranteed to yield interesting ideas and new directions for your fonts or lettering. We will show you the basic techniques and approaches to successful type cooking then we will proceed to drawing some awesome letters, and then we’ll discuss them at the end.

The evening will be MC’d by the amazing Ulrike Rausch! She will speak with us about writing, lettering, making fonts, and type cooking.

Also special for this event, the money from the tickets and drinks will be donated to Quarteera e.V. to help aid Ukrainian refugees. So the evening will not only be fun and inspiring, it’ll be for a good cause as well.

Last but not least, Mota Italic has produced some cool Type Cooker dice that will be available for sale at the event. They are normally €17 if you buy them online, but for this night only, they’ll be €20 – and all proceeds will also be going to charity.

Bring some paper, drawing tools, thirst, and some money :)

There are a few tickets left, get yours here.

Date & Time

Thu, March 24, 2022 6:30 PM – 9:30 PM CET

Location

Navarra.is Studio Bouchéstraße 12 #Haus 8 12435 Berlin

This month, Type Thursday will be virtually traveling around the world looking at type design for the scripts: Hangeul (Minjoo Ham), Arabic (Pascal Zoghbi), and Devanagari (Kimya Gandhi). Plus there will be a Typecrit with Mayar Reda! ✨

The event will take place on Zoom on Feb. 24th, at 19:00 Berlin time.

Happy New Year, and happy to see the next Berlin Type Thursday coming up! It's NEXT WEEK (Thurs, Jan 27th, at 19:00), and it will again be online via Zoom. So all you not in Berlin, why not join in??? Get your tickets on Eventbrite now!

Thanks to covid, Type Thursday is back to being a virtual event again. It's not the same experience as in person, but it's still fun and actually nice to be able to have speaker and guests from anywhere!

This month features a presentation by Bastarda Type followed by a Type Quiz! There will be several prizes (every participant will get something), so you won't want to miss it!

Hop over to Eventbrite and grab a ticket now!

Wed, October 20, 2021 - from 7 to 8 pm U-Bahnhof Friedrichstraße

Type in Motion: To reflect the diversity of the city of Berlin, HMKW students designed and animated the Letter B E R L I N according to different approaches and concepts during the project. The workshop at HMKW was led by Martin Lorenz of TwoPoints.netand Mario Gorniok of Keenly.

The next Type Thursday is this week! It'll again be help at the Navarra studios and this time features two speakers:

Eduard Felegeanu and Kirill Borisov

Hope you can make it!

Get your tickets now... while there are any left!

Doors open at 18:30 Doors close at 21:00

The last Berlin Typostammtisch was at the end of February 2020 just before all social gatherings stopped for what felt like forever. Contrary to many other groups, conferences, & meetups, the Berlin TST decided to forego online meetings – preferring to wait the virus out till it was safe enough to meet again in person. Well, that time is finally now and it couldn’t come soon enough!

In just 2 days the whole Berlin type scene will meet up at Prater Biergarten. Beer, food, intellectual typographic philosophy, chit-chat, gossip, old & new friends... It’ll be a great time, you should come! Bring something typographic to show off – some new work, a book, an object, some news... anything you want to share!

And as an additional event bonus there will be another Type Walk hosted by Florian Hardwig and Fritz Grögel. It’ll be the 5th year they are doing this, and I’d love to recommend you taking part. Unfortunately, they have limited spaces, and they got reserved almost immediately.

When? Thursday, September 23rd at 6 p.m. (Type Walk from 3 p.m.) Where? Prater Biergarten, Kastanienallee 7–9, 10435 Berlin U-Bahn: Line U2 to Eberswalder Straße Tram: M1 / ​​M10 / 12 to Eberswalder Straße