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Serif on the Rock vol II

The first part of Serif on the Rock, a  list of typographic events was getting too long to be useful, so I  have decided to start a new post. September, October, November and December will be included in this second part of Serif on the Rock (Or how to drink throughout the year enjoying typographical […]

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My typographic spring tour

A brief update before this blog is full of spider web. The following 3 weeks I will be in Spain in different typographic events: Jornadas de Tipografía de Granada, also called Tipos de Interés (17-18 May). This is a very special one-day conference because it has been organized by students and its a non-lucrative project. I’ve been […]

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Serif on the rock

Or how to drink throughout the year enjoying typographical events. No doubt that design and type conferences are living a wonderful time, there are conferences everywhere in the globe and traveling has never been so easy. But are they all worth it or are we looking at a saturated offer?  Looking through the calendar one can […]

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Letterpress: Something to Say

Letterpress is definitely not just retro-nostalgia anymore. This is a quite a statement to make, but  in the event ‘Letterpress: Something to say’, held at St. Bride, several clues pointed int that direction: there were not nostalgic printers whimpering for ‘the better times’ of hand composition, nor  there were old black and white movies with […]

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London Design Festival, 10 years of Design

London Design Festival (LDF), from 14 to 22 September, twelve days of exhibitions, workshops, lectures, presentations and parties across the English capital. The 2011 edition received about 350.00 visitors, and this year, the tenth anniversary of this long week of design,  it had programmed over two hundred activities. It was therefore almost impossible to walk around London and […]