The Continental, South Meadow Lane, Preston
Speakers from 6.30pm /
Networking from 8.30pm /
Free entry, food and welcome beer /
Register here
A very special evening with international type guru, Bruno Maag. As always, places are free (how on earth do we do it!?), but are limited. We’re already receiving early registrations for this event so make sure you email our events team at events@grouphub.org Please note the new venue – more on this soon. Check out the new Continental here and read on for more on Bruno Maag.
Born in Zurich, 1962, Bruno Maag graduated from Basel School of Design, Switzerland, with a degree in Typographic Design and Visual Communications. From Basel he moved to England to work for Monotype. After a year and a half in England, Bruno transferred to Monotype Chicago where he was responsible for their custom typeface department. During this time he re-cut all of the typefaces then in use by The New Yorker magazine for use on Macintosh. After returning to England in 1991 Bruno started Dalton Maag with Liz Dalton. His studio designed typefaces for clients like British Telecom, BMW, Hewlett Packard, and many others. Amongst some of his own designs is InterFace, a contemporary Sans.
“No one who is good just dabbles in the typographic arts. As Erik Spiekermann once said, ‘You don’t do type. You live it.’ The problem is that just ‘living type’ is not enough. Compromises and trade-offs are almost always necessary to have a rewarding career and life in type.”
“If you love letters and want to draw type, you will love all aspects of the process. Never again will you crave color or graphic design layouts. Instead you will marvel at the beauty of letter shapes. You will adore serifs and terminals, curves and straights. Type will be yours for life.”
“If you want to get rich, don’t go into type design—become a lawyer, banker or accountant. Design type because you love it.”
http://www.daltonmaag.com
http://www.daltonmaag.com/news/61.html
http://www.stepinsidedesign.com/STEPMagazine/Article/28791
http://www.tipocracia.com.br/blog/en/2008/04/22/interview-with-bruno-maag/en/
http://www.identifont.com/show?3WF
http://www.computerarts.co.uk/in_depth/features/experimental_typography
http://www.scottbillings.co.uk/?cat=25
http://www.designweek.co.uk/Articles/137502/Balancing+tricks.html
Comments 1
Well Steven, I have no idea how you persuade these people to Preston, but good on you – although you might not want to call him Bruce until he’s finished speaking ;o)
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