Erik van Blokland

Lab Lecture: Visualizing the photons of spacing (or how we look at type)

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This talk is scheduled for Saturday, June 13 at 3:30pm as part of the main Typographics conference schedule. You must register for the Typographics conference to attend.

About Erik van Blokland

Lab Lecture: Visualizing the photons of spacing (or how we look at type)

Erik van Blokland is one of the pioneers of digital type design and has been drawing and publishing typefaces since 1989 (available from Font Font and House Industries). One of them, FF Beowolf (with Just van Rossum) was included in the MoMA design collection in New York. Now a senior lecturer and head of the TypeMedia course at the KABK (Royal Academy of Art, The Hague NL) as well as a programmer of precision digital tools for type designers (Superpolator, Robofab) he combines the analog with the digital on a daily basis. His work centers on typographic consulting, custom typefaces, and tool development.

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