In February we launched a series of events for designers to bring back the variety in design & typography and to secure the upcoming digital industries from the visual sameness.

The first edition “Embrace variety” w/ BCG Digital Ventures, Cogs Agency, Onefootball, UFOMAMMOT, MING Labs and The Family went out as Dribbble Berlin meetup, where we announced that
... the next event would happen in mid May
... with a focus on typography and
... that the series of events will continue as DWeb.Design.

Sticking to the plan:

Mid May means → May 15

Typography? → Yes, this time we have DWeb.Design Typonight (our night starts at 18:00 - so there will be still some sun)

Agenda:

18:00 - intro “Hey, it's a blockchain! Why we talk typography?”
18:20 - opening keynote by Hugo Göldner "Radical Simplicity"
18:50 - Frank Rausch “Interactive Text”
19:20 - Bernd Volmer “Variable” fonts and identities with the limited browser"
19:50 - Yulia Popova “Women in Typography” book pre-launch introduction
20:20 - closing keynote by Jürgen Siebert "Helvetica Now: Rethink the world’s most famous typeface"

Follow #DWebDesign on twitter for the updates and teasers.

Event heroes

Hugo Göldner…
… shapes culture and attitude of organizations and translates into brand and digital experiences. He is a founder, management partner and a creative director of a digital design studio CDLX/Codeluxe (https://cdlx.de/). Among teaching »Complex Design« at Burg Giebichenstein Kunsthochschule Halle, Hugo is a part of several design juries and also a member of DDC Deutscher Designer Club. For his (mostly type focused) work he received several national and international awards.

More about Hugo:
https://www.ddc.de/de/mitglieder/hugo-goeldner.php

"Radical Simplicity"
The world has always been seen highly complex and furious. But todays phenomena like estrangement and fragmentation are seriously disrupting all aspects of our lives. In such times, simplicity becomes a basic human need.

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Frank Rausch…
... is a user interface designer, app developer, and typographer. He is co-founder and managing partner at Raureif, an award-winning interaction design consultancy based in Berlin. In his work, Frank Rausch explores how technology and code can shape high-quality digital reading experiences. He teaches app design and typography at design schools in Austria, Denmark, Germany, and Switzerland.

More about Frank:
https://frankrausch.com
video (one of dozens): https://www.typotalks.com/videos/the-new-typography/

“Interactive Text”
Digital typography is user interface design. Visual user interfaces are nothing without text.
In his talk, Frank Rausch will discuss how language, text, and typography shape the user experience for interactive tools and media.

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Bernd Volmer…
... is a Type Designer who currently works as Font Engineer for HvD Fonts in Berlin. Together with Olli Meier he designed the identity for TypoLabs Conference 2018, which has been recognized with the Red Dot Design Award. It was the first visual identity that made an extensive use of variable fonts on the web and in print.

More about Bernd:
https://www.berndvolmer.com/
What to expect? ⟶ https://www.instagram.com/berndvolmer

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Yulia Popova…
…is a graphic designer and researcher specializing in printed matter and typography. Born in Moscow, Russia, Yulia moved to Germany to study Integrated Design in Cologne International School of Design. Later she was part of the 9-month research program at Strelka Institute for Media, Architecture and Designin Moscow. Yulia worked in the field of branding and web design in Russia and Germany for several years. Recently, she graduated with distinction from the MA program in Visual Communication in Art Academy Weißensee, Germany and is currently working as a graphic designer at Pentagram in Berlin. In her free time she is working on self-initiated research projects, running various workshops and teaching from time to time.

More about Yulia:
http://yulia-popova.com
teaser of the talk: http://yulia-popova.com/women-in-type

“Women in Typography”
Why the share of female speakers at typographic conferences is much lower? Are there really fewer women in type design? How comes that Zuzana Licko is more or less the first known female type designer? Questions like these, became the central topic in Yulia’s research project. She collected data and statistics, interviewed people in the type design industry and went through archives to understand the situation better. Yulia will share her findings and present the book that became the final outcome of the project.

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Jürgen Siebert …
… is dedicated to graphic design, typography, technology & culture, and how it all fits together. Director Marketing at Monotype in Berlin, Host of Brand Talks by Monotype; CEO FontShop (2001–2014), TYPO Conference Director (1996–2018), Fontblogger, Founder Member of FontFont Typeboard, Editor FontBook, Co-founder of PAGE magazine; Host of CreativeMornings Berlin since 2011.

More about Jürgen:
https://www.fontblog.de/
one of interviews: https://orbanism.com/blog/interviewreihe-menschenvernetzer/2018/juergen-siebert-monotype-die-vorteile-persoenlicher-begegnungen-sind-unbezahlbar/
Join Creative Mornings: https://creativemornings.com/cities/ber

Talk:
“Helvetica Now: Rethink the world’s most famous typeface”
Video teaser 1: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sXDoSGL61mg
Video teaser 2: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UMnMzKXZU-Y

Supporters

Rosenfeld Media team is supporting us with an unequaled user experience expertise:
books to give away at Typonight are already on their way to Berlin!

Do you know how many articles on typography are on Smashing Magazine? Friends from their editorial team loved the mission of Typonight and are presenting us few of their books ⚡️⚡️⚡️

A design booksrore&gallery in the most streetarted backyard of Berlin is supporting us with few books very-very connected with the theme of our previous DWeb.Design meetup "Embpase variety".

Sketch team is giving us three Sketch licences to raffle among attendees! Only for #DesignforGood :)
When you arrive to the event space at Betahaus > don't forget to grab your raffle ticket.

DWeb.Design is a part of DWeb.
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