Taking advantage of two innovative publications such as Type Compass, and the upcoming Typo9010 the event will explore the developments of the typographic landscape over the last half decade. SHS Publishing, VosBrenner and guest speakers will discuss the future of typography and the general shift from the refined to the vernacular / practical. Analyzing everything from type design, typographic installations and works by designers whose primary mode of communication is typography, the evening will encompass all aspects of this ever more central node in contemporary design.
VosBrenner were responsible for the visual identity of TENT’s successful State-of-The-Art event series in 2011 and the design of the accompanying essays. In Early 2012 the pair brought together several articles written by Ernst van der Kwast for TENT in a publication with an unusually monumental format. The publication introduced the VB Pallograph, a sans serif font developed by VosBrenner and inspired by a collection of house number plates in Rotterdam. TENT regularly gives young Rotterdam based designers commissions to explore the boundaries of print, spatial design or campaign material for projects and exhibitions.
The Rotterdam designers Nele Vos (DE) and Michael Brenner (USA) began their graphic design studio in 2008 and specialize in information design (Die Zeit), book design, and exhibition design (Matter Practice Architect, New York). Their practice predominantly uses in-depth research, tracing the history of design as a key to shaping communicative projects. VosBrenner’s many clients in the cultural field include the Guggenheim Museum (New York), New Museum of Contemporary Art (New York), Pierre Bayle Foundation, and TENT.
About the speakers
Matteo Cossu
Matteo Cossu has worked for organizations such as Southern Records and Acantilado, and as editor for Mao Mao Publications / Loft Books. Cossu published 1000 Ideas by 100 Graphic Designers (2009) and Walk This Way: Sign Graphics Now (2010), a study on signage design. In 2010, together with Luca Bendandi, Cossu founded SHS publishing in Berlin.
Emilio Macchia
Since 2011, Macchia has been a design researcher at the Jan Van Eyck Academy in Maastricht. In 2012 he wrote Bits and Pieces, Charles Nypels Archive and was the curator of the second edition of the Italian art book fair Fahrenheit 39 in Ravenna, Italy. Macchia’s PRESS TO ATTACK, Dutch Clandestine Publishing in the Occupation Years 1940-45 won the prestigious Fondazione G. Fedrigoni National Prize in 2012.
Luca Bendandi
Bendandi is a graphic designer and co-founder of SHS Publishing. He has previously worked for studios such as Raison Pure (France), Estudio Mariscal (Spain), Studio 46XY (Italy) and Werkplaats Vincent de Rijk (Rotterdam). Bendandi also taught Basic Typography and Magazine Design at IED-Istituto Europeo di Design in Barcelona.
Tomáš Brousil
Brousil (1975) studied at the Secondary School of Applied Arts in Prague and at the Academy of Arts, Architecture and Design in Prague. He set up Suitcase Type Foundry in 2003. He now works and lives in Prague. His newest venture is new independent font distributor set to launch in the coming months. www.suitcasetype.com, www.briefcasetype.com
Petra Dočekalová
Typographer, AAAD Prague, dept. of Typography. Apart from working for Briefcase Type Foundry, she organizes various lectures and workshops in her native Prague, revolving around the world of Typography, Type design, calligraphy and non-latin type.