TYPO Berlin Touch kicks off tomorrow (Thursday) and no matter where in the world you are, you can participate. Watch six livestreams throughout the conference (all times Central European):
Thursday, May 16th
Friday, May 17th:
Saturday, May 18th:
FontShop is proud to sponsor the second annual TYPO San Francisco happening April 11 & 12 at Yerba Buena Center for the Arts. We’d be remiss if we didn’t warn you that the deadline for regular registration is fast approaching – as in this Thursday night! That’s right, you can save $100 if you snap up your ticket today.
Don’t miss out on some serious design inspiration as Erik Spiekermann, Mandy Brown, Keetra Dixon, Christoph Niemann, Armin Vit and more take to the stage in just a few weeks.
Adding yet another design program to its repertoire, the FontShop Plugin is now compatible with Adobe® Fireworks®. Now you can see how different type options will look on web and mobile before you buy and without leaving your document.
The free FontShop Plugin lets you preview any of our 150,000+ fonts, in the context of your own artwork in Adobe® Photoshop®, Adobe® Illustrator®, Adobe® InDesign®, or Adobe® Fireworks® (CS5, CS5.5 and CS6). This is a great new way to find the perfect typographic fit for your project.
Features:
>> Download the FREE FontShop Plugin
And because if you’re not a Fireworks user, this may now be in your head, we’ll help you with that too:
FontShop is proud to once again to be the presenting sponsor of TYPO San Francisco in 2013. Before we pack off for the holiday, we wanted to remind you to get your Early Bird tickets before prices go up on January 1!
We’re especially excited that the theme Contrast means last year’s closing speaker, Mike Monteiro, will facilitate, switching spots with Erik Spiekermann, who will close out the conference.
Seriously you don’t want to miss this incredible line up:
Kali Nikitas returns and we add facilitators Carima El-Behairy, Cameron Ewing and Simone Wolf.
Many more announcements to come after the new year, but don’t miss your chance to save $100 for all the design fans on your gift list this season!
Tomorrow the US heads to the polls and today at FontShop we open up our comments section for you to tell us your picks for the “Best of 2012.” We’re sifting through fonts and foundries our “Best of” lists before the holidays begin. While our staff holds many thoughts about what blew us aways this year, we’d like to hear yours as well. Let us know in the comments below by November 30!
To get you started, here’s five typefaces added to FontShop this year. Don’t forget, you can play with them all in our Adobe Creative Suite Plugin to see how they mesh with your work.
JAF Bernini Sans by Just Another Foundry
Need some inspiration? Take a look back at some of our previous years’ posts. Next, flip through our New Fonts lists to see what’s come out this year. Then leave your picks in the comment section below.
The second annual TYPO London kicks off Friday, October 19. Not in the UK? You can still get in on the action via livestreams on both Friday and Saturday.
On Friday, watch multimedia designer Anthony Burrill at 12 PM GMT discuss “Working Hard and Being Nice to People.” Too early for those in the Americas? Then tune back in at 8 PM GMT for Pentagram’s Paula Scher‘s talk on “Breakthroughs, Successes and Failures.”
Continue your weekend with more design inspiration by checking out legendary graphic designer Ken Garland speak to “Word and Image” at 10 AM GMT. Return later to view Irma Boom closing out the conference with “Manifesto for the Book.”
The theme this year is Social so make sure to follow the hashtag #typo12 in addition to @TYPOLDN to get in on all the action.
In April we rolled out our free Fontshop Plugin, which allowed you try any of the 150,000+ fonts in our library within the context of your own artwork in Adobe Photoshop (CS5, CS5.5 and CS6) for free. We heard you loud and clear and are happy to announce that the plugin now supports Adobe Illustrator (CS5 and CS6) as well. This is a great new way to find the perfect typographic fit for your project.
Features:
Get the plugin from our website at FontShop.com/plugin. If you’ve already got the previous version of FontShop plugin for Photoshop, be sure to uninstall it first through Adobe Extension Manager, then install the latest one. The new one works in both Photoshop and Illustrator.
The plugin page includes step-by-step instructions and FAQs on how to use this handy tool. If you have additional questions, we also have a help page on FontShop that should assist you. The plugin is still in beta, so please feel free to leave your feedback for our developers.
Have you used the plugin? What do you think?
TYPO, Europe’s premier design conference, will hit American shores next year with an event in San Francisco. More information will be coming soon, but we wanted to confirm the exciting news announced at the close of the successful TYPO London conference this past Saturday.
Will we see you in SF?
