On this day a hundred and twenty five years ago, Ottmar Mergenthaler demonstrated for the first time the Linotype machine at the New York Tribune in New York. The world would not be the same afterward. Not because of the [...]

Last Tuesday and as part of the BrandPerfect Tour I gave a talk entitled Type and Usability in New Media. I’m not going to summarize the whole talk here, but there are a few points that I thought might be [...]

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Linotype’s booth inside the Haus der Kulturen der Welt for the TYPO-Berlin 2011 conference. Pictured from left to write are Tobias Meyerhoff, Rebecca Schalber, and Martin Haeckel. One of the first thing that visitors to TYPO-Berlin notice upon entering the [...]

This week, over 1,000 graphic designers from the world over will gather in the German capital for the annual TYPO-Berlin conference. The venue for the event is the Berlin congress center Haus der Kulturen der Welt, or the house of world cultures. Linotype GmbH will have a booth in this building’s reception area. If you’ll be attending TYPO-Berlin 2011, stop by and say hello! We’ll have several employees ready to field questions, or make fonts suggestions. A number of brochures showcasing Linotype typefaces will be distributed at the booth, free-of-charge. For TYPO-Berlin attendees not from the Berlin-area, this blog post lists ten typographic resources in city that I’d like to recommend.