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A daily stream of tweets, links, tunes, images, and other bloggish bits and bobs posted by Grant Hutchinson.

Lovingly compiled for you in somewhat linear format.

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ISType 2013 Pre Event — Alejandro Paul

As part of ISType 2013 in Istanbul, Alejandro Paul will be presenting “Establishing a Niche in Type Design” on Tuesday, May 7th .

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International Students’ Moving Type Festival

The MoTyF review and symposium will take place in the National Museum in Warsaw, the workshops in the Polish Japanese Institute of Information Technology, from May 27th through 29th, 2013.

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Kerning, A Promising New Typography Conference In Italy

Yves Peters: “… in just two weeks when I will be talking at Kerning, the first international conference in Italy (and by extension South Europe) dedicated solely to typography and web typography.”

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The TYPO Video Portal — San Francisco 2013

Speaker videos from the recent TYPO San Francisco 2013 talks. Featuring Spiekermann and others.

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TYPO San Francisco — Contrast Conversations

A roundup of what the speakers proffered during this week’s TYPO SF conference.

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Typo San Francisco Announces Type Track

From the site: “Learn some of the secrets to creating a successful business in typography on Friday with moderator Carima El-Behairy, of P22 Foundry, and five speakers who will address various aspects of the type industry. Bring your questions, they have answers.”

Posted 2 months ago

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TypeCon2013 Call for Programming Deadline Next Week

The submission deadline is Friday, March 15th.

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TypeCon2013: Call for Programming

The TypeCon2013 call for programming in now open. The fifteenth annual conference will be taking place August 21st – 25th in Portland, Oregon. Deadline for proposals is Friday, March 15th, 2013.

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ATypI 2013 is happening in Amsterdam

Association Typographique Internationale announced that its next conference will be held in Amsterdam, October 9th–13th, 2013. The venue, collaborating partners, and presentation submission details will be announced over the next few weeks.

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Call For Papers: Travel, Topography and the Book Trade

From the site: “Call for Papers — The 31st Print Networks Conference on the History of the British Book Trade will take place at the University of Chichester, July 23rd-25th, 2013. Due to the proximity of the conference venue to the south coast, ‘Travel, Topography and the Book Trade’ has been chosen as the theme for the conference.”

Posted 4 months ago

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Lay out — speak out

An overview of the ‘Something to say’ letterpress conference organised by Catherine Dixon and Rose Gridneff at St. Bride Library.

Posted 5 months ago

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Typo Berlin 2013 Touch Ticket Lottery

From the site: “Tell your story and create a ‘tone painting’ moment! We want to see an onomatopoeic explosion when we touch your story with the mouse. For this you just have to enter a text and upload an image to our server.”

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Babel International Type Symposium #1

In cooperation with the Klingspor-Museum Offenbach, the first Babel International Type Symposium will take place November 27th, 2012 and focus on the issue of non-Latin writing systems.

Posted 6 months ago

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Webfontday 2012 This Saturday in München, Germany

From the site: “This Saturday, November 11, [Yves Peters] will give a presentation about improving web typography in a few simple steps at Webfontday 2012, the one-day conference organised by the Typographische Gesellschaft München.”

Posted 6 months ago

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Letterpress: Something to say

From the site: “The current vogue for letterpress is more than mere retro-nostalgia, writes Catherine Dixon — co-organiser of St Bride’s ‘Letterpress: Something to Say’ — a one-day conference exploring letterpress as a means for delivering real content.”

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