Design News

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When Marsha Emanuel, then head of graphic design at the French Ministry of Culture, launched Graphisme en France in 1994, she conceived it as an annual calendar of events around graphic design, a booklet whose purpose was to “help weave the necessary links between the various players in France and their potential audiences”, providing a space where the growing and lively French graphic design scene could become visible.

The exhibition “Modes and Characters: Poetics of Graphic Design” (“もじ イメージ Graphic 展”) explores Japanese graphic design since the 1990s – a period when computer-based design processes became mainstream alongside the rise of the internet.

For this year’s conference, Fontstand came to Ireland. Local designers and attendees from abroad were joined by type designers and many of our foundry partners.

We have just released a major new version, offering a brand-new way for users to access their favorite fonts.

Since the middle of the twentieth century, Albert Boton’s contributions to type design have been pivotal, especially in France. He passed away last week.

A conference and exhibition at ECAL reassess Jan Tschichold’s most famous book through the lens of contemporary historiography.

True Photo-journal Issue 7 enquires the world of publishing.

On September 9th and 10th, Fontstand organized its third conference in The Hague. After years of necessary Covid restrictions, many community members were thrilled to gather together in person again.

In 2021, four Berlin institutions collaborated to digitize a large part of their printed type specimen collections and make the images freely available online.