In celebration of the official launch of Why Fonts Matter in the US today:
Playing Type Karaoke with the Nicer Tuesdays audience for It’s Nice That (12 mins)
Interviewed on BBC Radio 4’s Saturday Live (4 mins)
TEDx talk Wake Up and Smell the Fonts (15 mins)
To see a list of all press and interviews click here. To book a talk or event click here.
I’m looking forward to bringing a glimpse of my typography lab experiments to It’s Nice That’s Nicer Tuesdays tomorrow evening. Come along ready to join in!
“The next typeface you use, what would it taste like?” was the question I posed at the end of the talk on Edible Typography at Eye Magazine’s Type Tuesday. Here are some of the suggestions…
Angela Lamb’s first typeface of the day was Lavanderia which she describes as “delicate – it tastes of spun sugar. sweet, but brittle”. Lavenderia is designed by James T. Edmondson and is based on lettering found on Laundromat windows of San Francisco’s Mission District.
Karina Monger and the Ferrier Pearce design team came up with the following list:
Museo: Bacon wheat crunchies
Arial Rounded: Spaghetti
WC Roughtrad: Flaky Pastry…
Here at Type Tasting I’ve been having conversations about how we respond to different typefaces. Whether we’re type designers, graphic designers or nothing to do with the design industry, all of us are type consumers. We interact with typefaces constantly in our everyday lives and, although it happens on an instinctive level, when we read a word the choice of font also has an effect on us.
A day of baking edible fonts for Type Tuesday hosted by Eye Magazine at St Brides on Tuesday April 1st. I’m one of the speakers and I’ll be explaining how my edible type is all about starting conversations about typography around how different fonts evoke associations. I’ll be bringing the freshly baked biscuits with me.
Above is Futura in progress: sweet & brightly coloured cookies, coloured icing if I have time. Below are Baskerville in progress: tea infused biscuits for authentic 1700s flavour, and Helvetica in progress: plain water biscuits with a dash of rosemary & salt. If you have any ideas or comments please join the conversation with @TypeTasting on Twitter.
Tuesday 1st April 7pm- 9.30pm
Type Tasting founder Sarah Hyndman is one of the speakers at the next Type Tuesday at St Bride hosted by Eye Magazine…
Workshop & discussion: #FutureOfType?, St Bride Library
Thursday May 2nd from 6.30-9.30pm
In the Bridewell Hall, St Bride Foundation
Tickets £25 · Concessions & Friends of St Bride Library £22.50 · Students £20
Apply: www.stbride.org/events
We were having a great time at the St Bride Library ‘Bad Type’ conference after party. Dizzy with happiness after the auction of big piles of Letraset we were inspired to create our own alphabet on the dancefloor.
DISCO: an alphabet created by Steven Gunner, Sarah Hyndman, Sam Mcleod and Nick Watts.
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