Sunday, March 22, 2009

Type IV: type conference progress pt trois

BRAINSTORMED NAMES
Tangible typography: type in the real world
Tangible typography: type as experience
Type through time and space
Type as experience
Off the page and in the real world: type's other life
Off the page: type as experience

FINAL NAME
Off the page: type as experience

SHORT PARAGRAPH
We know that type can have a personality, but what if type could breathe, grow, talk or walk; even live or die? Join us to celebrate type's other life off the page and in the real world as designers and typophiles alike meet to discuss how type can be an experience.

REFINED DESIGNER BLURB
Austrian native, Stefan Sagmeister has been around; design-wise at least. After getting his BFA from Vienna's University of Applied Arts and his MFA from Pratt University, Sagmeister worked for Leo Burnett (1991) and Tibor Kalman's M&Co (1995) before opening his own studio Sagmeister, Inc in 1996 where he has worked for various clients including The Rolling Stones, AIGA, and Lou Reed. His success has allowed him to close his studio's doors to outside work for 2 one year long periods to do personally directed design work. These hiatuses have allowed for extreme experimentation with tangible type leaving everyone to wonder "What will he do next?"

1 comment:

thenewprogramme said...

good name. good bio. both are well considered. after reading everyone else's description, yours leaves me wanting a bit more. i really like what you have, and it's written in a very engaging way. maybe you need to expand a bit more on what you mean by "experience". can you give an example or two, or mention media/formats/contexts? just a bit more concrete info would be helpful.