Admittedly it’s been a while since our last event, but I’m sure it’s been said before that “all good things take time”? Regardless we’re very excited to announce the next Mobile Design UK event entitled ‘The Typography Session’ - which has (once again) been generously sponsored by Forum Nokia. It’s scheduled for Wednesday November 25th, 2009 (sorry about the short notice) in the Tavern Room at RSA on John Adam Street. The doors will open at 6:30 and we’re aiming to get things underway by 7:00pm.
Tavern Room @ RSA House
8 John Adam Street, London
Wednesday November 25th, doors open 6:30pm
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[Update] Registration for this event is now closed. If you would like to attend please add yourself to the wait list and we’ll try and get you registered to attend if/when we receive any cancellations.
The final speaker list for the evening is now available (below). We’re very excited to have Steve Graham from Fjord, Jerry Cinamon, design historian and previously Chief Designer at Penguin Books and Julie Strawson from Monotype Imaging join us to share their perspectives about the state of type on devices and where things are going.
A book designer looks at Ebooks & readers
Gerald (Jerry) Cinamon
Design Historian
Jerry trained as a graphic designer in America, then spent many years designing books for Penguin Books (where he was eventually Chief Designer) and many other London publishers for which he won numerous awards. Presently a design historian, he has written about the Penguin design-director Hans Schmoller (Monotype Recorder, April 1987), the illustrator Alice B. Woodward and the Glasgow-style designer Talwin Morris. His major study (and the first in English) of the famed German letterer and type designer Rudolf Koch was published in 2000 by Oak Knoll and The British Library. He is now compiling a reference book of German graphic designers during the 1930s.
Jerry is a member of Letter Exchange, Calligraphy & Lettering Arts Society, Penguin Collectors’ Society (contributor to The Penguin Collector), the Double Crown Club, A TypI and the Art Workers Guild. He has lectured on the work of Koch, Ben Shahn, and his own work at Penguin.
Design & Type Issues in the Context of Electronic Program Guides (EPGs)
Steve Graham
Service Design Lead
Fjord
Originally Steve designed promotional material for the Cannes film festival in the early nineties but later honed his craft for digital design at Syzygy AG from 1996 where he designed online solutions for Pepsico, WPP, BP and Telewest, amongst others. Steve’s diverse skills would later secure him a position as Art Director for Crown Business Communications in 1999 where he specialized in live events devising broadcast graphics and sets designs for major blue chip clients. Later, Steve returned to his passion for screen design and helped to set up Atomic Interative where he spearheaded web and mobile Java game design concepts.
The former Creative Director for Fjord, Steve specializes in the creation of digital interfaces and experiences as a Service Design Lead. He’s was involved in the design of NOKIA Lifeblog and more recently the GSMA award winning Yahoo! Go and BBC iPlayer mobile, and SFR’s digital brand DNA redesign. Steve has an MA in Communication Design from Central St.Martins College.
Taking Typography Mobile
Julie Strawson PG Dip. MCIM
Director of Marketing, Europe
Monotype Imaging
Julie has design directed many projects in her career in a diverse range of international technology companies including e-commerce, speech recognition, font and imaging technology and is a qualified member of the Chartered Institute of Marketing.
As a 10 year old, Julie learnt to typeset hot metal at home with her father and has had a love of type ever since. At Monotype Imaging, home of the Monotype, Linotype and ITC typeface libraries she spends her time working at the confluence of the print, desktop and mobile worlds, with graphic designers in agencies, brand holders and mobile companies such as Vodafone, Nokia and Samsung. Julie has insight into the real challenges facing designers who want to bring rich typography to the mobile space. This includes first hand experience of launching the unique mobile font personalisation solution, Flipfont™.
[Update] Unfortunately registration for this event is now closed. If you would like to attend please add yourself to the wait list and we’ll try and get you registered to attend if/when we receive any cancellations. As usual drinks/nibbles will also be available, thanks to Arabella from Forum Nokia for organising this once again.
If for whatever reason you cannot attend after registering please post a message to the group so we can free up your space for someone else.
Lastly, if you are interested in speaking at an upcoming event, would like to showcase your project or even sponsor space and/or refreshments for an event please do get in touch via the Yahoo Group, Twitter or email us at ‘hello at mobiledesign.org.uk‘.
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