The annual conference "Tage der Typografie" are being held for the 12th time this year from the 5th to 7th November in Düsseldorf, Germany. The organiser Peter Reichard invited Veronika this year to give a weekend workshop as part of the events.
This workshop is aimed to graphic design professionals and students. It may be also of interest to calligraphers, editorial designers, information designers and industrial designers. By means of tracing pre-selected letters, participants will experiment with structural elements of lettershapes such as contrast, connections, weight of strokes and curve velocity. They will also learn the basics behind sketching an alphabet. This will be aided by short lessons that will establish essential knowledge units that support the theoretical framework and the concepts behind the exercises. The resulting characters will be openly discussed and corrections and alternatives will be shared among participants. During the second day, students will digitize their work according to a specific set of instructions and will have the opportunity to touch on more advanced questions, such as diacritics, coding, font family development and font production.

We are happy and proud to announce that we have received two awards in this years ED-Awards competition. Our multi-purpose typefamily Adelle was given Gold and Karmina Sans won Bronze in the category "Original Typeface". Veronika collected the nice but very heavy trophy at the awards ceremony in Rotterdam this past month. Many thanks to the jury and Ed-Awards!

Simon Esterson from the UK-based magazine Eye asked us about the experiences we had with Typekit and what our general take is on the new possibilities in web typography. The entire interview can be read online at eye blog.

Polish designer and teacher Ewa Satalecka interviewed José and Veronika for the design magazine 2+3D. The six-page article covers questions about long-distance collaboration and the way of designing type faces together. It also shows some very nice examples of various available TT typefaces. Erratum, unfortunately the publisher did not properly mark the poster showing Edita, as being designed by Pilar Cano, and apologises for the mistake.

The team of the German design magazine Slanted invited us to submit Givry, designed by Tom Grace, for their latest issue "Blackletter". The magazine explores the type category of blackletter and anything related to that including a series of photographs about the Norwegian Heavy Metal scene. Givry is presented in the section "Fontlabels, Fonts & Families"

The newly redesigned, by Marek Pistora, Czech magazine FONT invited José and Veronika to speak amongst other things about their beginnings, influences, approach to design and way of collaboration. The well designed four-page interview also shows some samples of our typefaces in use, such as in various newspapers and books.

The first exhibition of Tipos Latinos 2010 opened in Santiago, Chile, on April 14th 2010. The program of activities included two days of lectures at the Centro Cultural de España. Scaglione was the keynote speaker on the first day, with a lecture entitled "Shaping Types" that focuses on typography for editorial design. On the second day, Isaías Loaiza presented a lecture about corporate fonts and the role of typography in a corporate id program. The TiposLatinos 2010 exhibition includes two typefaces by TypeTogether: Karmina Sans and Adelle. The photo in this story is courtesy of Consuelo Saavedra. More images available here.

Veronika is scheduled to give a talk at this years typographic symposium "typetalks" in Brno. This unique one-day event will feature various international speakers lecturing about the beauty of type, typographic history and will share some insight in type design. More information about venue, schedule and registration are available on typetalks.com.

FontCast #9 — TypeTogether from FontShop on Vimeo. Veronika Burian and José Scaglione interviewed by Stephen Coles during the last ATypI conference in October 2009. A terrace overlooking the Zócalo square of Mexico City is the perfect framework to talk about fonts, TT's beginnings and much more. See the fontcast HERE.

Pilar Cano's beautiful typeface Edita, is taking part in the type exhibition "Lletres de Barcelona", open from the 19th to the 30th April in Amiens, France. The exhibition is organised by Sébastien Morlighem and the ÉSAD (école supérieure d'art et de design d'Amiens), showing the work of various established Spanish type designers, including Andreu Balius and Laura Meseguer.

We are happy to announce that two of our typefamilies, Adelle and Karmina Sans, have been recently selected in the renowned South-American type design competition, Tipos Latinos 2010.

Thomas Kunze, who runs the private blog ABCdarium about anything related to typography, asked Veronika to write a brief piece about TypeTogether. It talks about the beginnings of TT and the collaboration between Veronika and José. In German only :-)

David Březina's poster "Typefaces are structures", designed with his Skolar typeface for TypeTogether, will be exhibited in this years 24th International Biennial of Graphic Design in Brno. The exhibition will be open from the 22nd of June until 24th of October 2010. A folded version of the poster is available here.

TypeTogether contributed 3 different ampersands to the joint effort of SOTA and Fontaid IV, creating a typeface with many different ampersands, called "coming together". All revenue from sales will go to "Doctors without borders" for direct support of Haitian victims of the recent earthquake. The $20 font is available at MyFonts, Ascender, Veer and Fontshop. Read more in SOTA's website.

Veronika was invited to present at PechaKucha vol.16, in Prague, in the Areo cinema. PK has been organised in Prague since 4 years and the interest is still high. There were about 200 people in the audience. Veronika spoke about the importance of type in graphic communication presenting some examples of TypeTogether's work.
PechaKucha, the japanese word for "chit-chat", started in Tokyo in 2003 with the first presentation in studio SuperDeluxe. It was devised as an event for young designers, architects, artists to meet and show their work in public. The format is quite simple, each presenter has 20 slides and 20 seconds to speak for each of them. It is a fast pace, making the event interesting and diverse.

Fifth seminar UGD: "Shaping types, form and usage"
The fifth seminar of the Union of Graphic designers will be lead by type designers Veronika Burian and José Scaglione, who co-founded the font-label TypeTogether. The lecture will focus on contemporary type design, its usage in newspapers and magazines, and other aspects of typography.
The seminar is intended for both experienced typographers and graphic designers as well as students of those subjects. Although the seminar will concentrate on creating typefaces, general issues related to contemporary graphic design of books and periodicals will be discussed.

Date: 15th February 2010 at 18:00 in the building VOŠP.

Please confirm your participation by filling out this form. Price of the seminar is 200 CZK per person, CZK 100 for students with a valid student ID. Seminars are free for members of the Union and graphic design students of VOŠP.

VOŠP - Higher School of Journalism 
Opatovická 160/18, 110 00 Prague 1 - Nové Město
Map: The entrance to the school can be found in the passage between the streets Spálená and Opatovická

Our award winning typeface Karmina has received yet another recognition, albeit nothing highly official. It has been selected, together with Edita, in the list of Typography Served. It is a showing of selected works from leading design professionals in typography.

The NYC based studio arc90 developed a tool, called 'Readability', that allows users to view websites, and read articles, in a clean and ad-free environment. By a simple click on the 'Readability' button in the bookmark menu, all the flashing images and annoying advertising disappears and one can focus on the actual text. They teamed up with TypeKit and choose our typeface Athelas as one of the options for reading the web. Athelas has been professionally optimised for on-screen viewing, so the reading experience remains as good as possible.

The AGD FaVU, VUT Brno, invited Veronika to give a talk to their students and a wider interested audience. It will take place on the 21st January 2010 at the Academy at 18:00. Veronika will talk about the pros and contras of retail and custom-made typefaces showing her own and collaborative work.

Pilar Cano's beautifully spirited typeface Edita has been selected in the list of Typography Served. It is a showing of selected works from leading design professionals in typography. Congrats Pilar!

The renowned Czech magazine TYPO, selected two of our typefaces, Adelle and the latest release Etica, as "type of the week".

The Award winning font family Athelas, designed by V.Burian and J. Scaglione, was re-engineered for web usage and is now available on Typekit. Athelas was intensively hinted and the font file-size was optimized for web publishing.

We did it again! Three of our typefaces won again at this years Granshan type competiton, organised and supported by the Ministry of Culture of Armenia. Karmina Sans got the first prize in the Latin text category, Adelle the third, and SkolarPro won the first prize in the Cyrillic text font category. Thank you Granshan!

The renowned cultural center, Zamek Cieszyn, in Poland invited Veronika and José to lead a week-long type workshop, "Tailored typeface design", at the beginning of February. It is a natural continuation of previous workshops held at the center. Students will be given a hypothetical project, that will be used to introduce them to the complexities and limitations inherent to designing custom typefaces. The students will learn to draw conclusions from the brief that influence the design of customized lettershapes for a logotype and ultimately a whole typeface family. For more information and signing-up, please see the pdf here.

David Březina, extended his successful typeface, Skolar, by a Cyrillic version and took part at this years unique international typedesign competition "Modern Cyrillic", organised by the Russian foundry ParaType. The contest was divided into 2 parts, a jury selection and a special ParaType selection. Skolar Pro was selected as one of the winners in the text-display category by the ParaType team.
The full Skolar Pro version will be available in our online store later this year. Read further and see some specimens here.

Aaron Heth and Matt McInerney recently interviewed Veronika and José on their internet radio show Readbetweentheleading (RBtL). It is a weekly 1h show, usually interviews with various professionals from the design field, in particular typography. Previously they had Nick Sherman from MyFonts, Jason Santa Maria and many others. The interview touches on TypeTogether's background, type design in general and type education. Despite some technical problems, it was fun.

Thomas Kunz from German internet blog ABC darium recently intereviewed Spanish designer Pilar Cano, whose font Edita we have published only a few weeks ago. Read the full interview here.

The programme for this year's ATypI conference, Typ09, was published. Andreu Balius and José Scaglione will present a talk about the history and contemporary use of the "eñe" caracter in spanish-speaking countries. The lecture will be part of the main conference programme, happening at MIDE, in the historical center of Mexico City.

Ñ: A sign to convey a sound
The alphabet used by the Romans –Latin– had twenty-one letters and it was enough for all the phonemes needed to articulate it. But as its descendants developed, they gave birth to new phonemes, new sounds that evolved out of spoken Latin, and they presented problems of spelling. Scribes had to find new ways of representing new sounds. This lecture describes in detail the development and use of one of these sounds, the ntilde character, which became a symbol of literature and culture for all the spanish-speaking countries in the world. The “ñ” is the uncontested representative of the spanish language, currently spoken by over 400 million people around the globe and the most studied romance tongue in the world.

Jose Scaglione will present two lectures in the upcoming typography symposium "Letter & Design" in Córdoba, Argentina. The meeting is organized by UBP and Carácter Tipográfico as a part of an ongoing effort to produce academic activities oriented to improve typography use and type education.

TypeTogether is represented with 5 fonts in this bilingual (spanish/english) book by publisher Monsa. It is a selection of the latest tendencies in the type world with examples from mainly small foundries.

Paul Shaw writes about Maiola and TypeTogether in his column "Hot Type". It is published in the latest issue of the magazine PRINT.

Dan Reynolds wrote a cool review of Givry for the famous Typographica list, Our Favorite Typefaces of 2008.

Bree appeared on yet another Best-of-list. This time Ricardo Cordoba wrote a nice review for the famous Typographica list, Our Favorite Typefaces of 2008.

Smashing Magazine looked around for recently released corporate typefaces that have been frequently recommended, mentioned or discussed on popular typography-related blogs, forums and magazines. The result was a list of the 30 most promising corporate typefaces, Bree, Ronnia and Skolar are among them.

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Veronika and José will lead two workshops in Mexico City in March 2009, organized by the renowned publishing house Libraria. These workshops will cover many areas of the typeface design process and they aim to jumpstart both beginners and amateurs into alphabet-drawing. In addition to the workshops, Burian and Scaglione will participate in a roundtable discussion about Typographic Style, following the recent publication of the Spanish translation of Robert Bringhurst's "The Elements of Typographic Style".
Click here to learn more and register.

The special issue of Communication Arts magazine for its 50th anniversary, features an article by Allan Haley, asking
current top type designers "What is new?". Allan writes about our newest yet unpublished slab serif design Adelle.

Allan Haley writes about a selection of new display fonts in the February issue of HOW magazine. As one of the newcomers, he lists our successful typefamily Bree.

The December issue of the German magazine PAGE featured an article on fresh alternatives for type-classics. Our typeface Athelas was shown as an alternative to Garamond.

František Štorm interviewed Veronika for his new book Eseje o Typografii. It is a very well-written book about Štorm's ideas on type and his approach to designing with many interesting illustrations. So far it was published only in Czech by Revolver Revue.

Recently-published Typo 33 contains an extensive review of Veronika's Maiola typeface in the context of Czech typography.
David Březina wrote about the background and Latin part of the family, Irene Vlachou comments on Maiola Greek.

For the October issue of "creative characters" (MyFonts), Jan Middendrop selected Veronika and José. It is an interview intended to show the faces behind the fonts.

The Austrian typografische gesellschaft invited Veronika to give a talk and workshop in Vienna. It was part of a whole series of talks, about 6 events per year that are open to the public and in particular to the students at die graphische.

José Scaglione offered two lectures in the 3CIT in Valencia Spain. The first one addressed the origin and use of the spanish letter "eñe", accompained by renowned catalan designer Andreu Balius. The second lecture was a presentation that describes, with the help of recent samples of work, some of the reasons that drive the design and commercialization of new text typefaces, and how they affect the way new fonts look like.

Veronika was invited to present at the PechaKucha event in Denver.
She talked about "Why another typeface". PK is a global phenomena about  people presenting their own work or other material of interest in the field of design and art. Each presentation takes only 6 min 40 sec and 20 slides.

After several months of intensive planning, TypeTogether opened its first exhibition in Rosario, Argentina at CEC. The exhibit was very welcomed by local designers and publishing houses. This collection of real-life type design work was conceived as a travelling educational project and it will be shown in different cities, institutions and countries. To receive more information about hosting this exhibition please contact us.

José's visit to Bogotá was confirmed. The activities calendar includes three lectures, one of them together with Andreu Balius, and a two-day type design workshop. These academic activities are sponsored by two colombian universities, Uniminuto and Libertadores, within a series of events related to the opening of the TiposLatinos 2008 Biennial.

Our typefaces Ronnia and Karmina were selected to be part of the 23rd International Biennial of Graphic Design in Brno 2008 and were exhibited at the Moravian gallery later in the year.

Ronnia, Karmina and Bree were selected in the text category of the Tipos Latinos competition and were on show throughout Latin-america in 2008.

The German magazine Slanted published recently its 5th issue, the "Antiqua-boom". Antiqua in German refers to a serif typeface. Maiola was selected to be one of the examples of new, contemporary serif typefaces.

The article "typeladys" in the November issue of PAGE talks about a selected number of female type designers and shows some of their work. Veronika is one of them.

Karmina has won a merit at the Ed-Awards competition 07 and has been published in the accompanying catalogue. It is a well-done book showing interesting projects from allover Europe. To see details and purchase a copy, go to the ed-awards shop.

Veronika gave two talks in Paris, one about Czech type design of the 20th century and one about her own work that was influenced by some of the Czech designers, such as Menhart and Preissig.

Harper Collins and MaoMao published the book Typosphere, a showcase of new typefaces. Athelas and Maiola were chosen to be part of this selection.