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We are traveling to Germany! Join us and our friends at FontShop for their annual TYPO Berlin conference, Thursday through Saturday, May 16-18.  If you missed TYPO San Francisco, this is your chance to catch up on the multidimensional aspects of today’s complex design processes from a plethora of informed industry professionals.  Typekit’s very own David Demaree will be speaking on Thursday.  His talk, “The weight of the web” will explore “the web as an adaptive medium, where our work can consist not only of pixels and words, but also metadata and instructions for displaying content across all kinds of devices.”  You can check out the full conference schedule, which includes many other great talks by speakers such as Neville Brody and Gerry Leonidas, on the TYPO website.

TYPO Berlin will take place at the Haus der Kulturen der Welt (House of World Cultures), John-Foster-Dulles-Allee 10 10557 Berlin, from May 16 -18 2013. Tickets for the event can be purchased in advance online.

Join Typekit this Saturday, May 11th, in supporting the School of Visual Design’s annual D-Crit conference. The conference theme is counter/point, reflecting on the contrasting design perspectives of graduates students and renowned professionals. An excellent lineup of speakers is invited to reflect on this theme, including John Hockenberry of NPR, Paola Antonelli of the MOMA, and Andrew Blauvelt of the Walker Arts Center.

The event will take place in the Visual Arts Theatre at the School of Visual Arts (333 W 23rd St., between 8th & 9th Ave.), starting at 12:30pm on Saturday, May 11. The event is free and open to the public. Tickets are still available! Register on Eventbrite.

Typekit is proud to be a sponsor of Entretipos, a new one-day typography conference in Barcelona.  The conference will hold four morning workshops, covering typography as embroidery, lithographic printing, creating glyphs, and Copperplate letter expansion. The afternoon will be filled with several presentations by type designers and other visual designers.  Typekit is excited to help make the first Entretipos conference happen!

The event will take place in the Elisava School in the heart of Barcelona on Saturday, April 20. As of right now, there are still tickets available for select portions of the day! Register through the Entretipos website.

Typekit is proud to be a leading sponsor of FontShop’s TYPO San Francisco 2013, a two-day conference covering “more than just typography — it’s design, culture, society with a little bit of kerning.” The TYPO SF theme this year is contrast: cultural, visual, and everything in between. An excellent lineup of speakers has been invited to reflect on this theme, and we’re excited to hear what they have to say. Typekit is represented on the speaker list by Adobe VP and former Typekit CEO Jeff Veen, Typekit engineer Sean McBride, and Typekit alum Mandy Brown.

The event will take place in the Lam Research Theater at the Yerba Buena Center for the Arts starting at 9am on Thursday, April 11. As of right now, there are still tickets available! Register on Eventbrite.

The view from our Mission St office. Photo by Ryan Carver.

We’re joining our colleagues at the San Francisco Adobe office, and moving out of our Mission St space with a bang. Come celebrate with us one last time: join us for drinks, food, and music on Thursday, March 29th, at 7:00pm. As we say farewell, we’ll also welcome the new tenant — our friends at True Ventures.

Please RSVP; we want to make sure we have enough drinks to go around!

Typekit is proud to once again host the San Francisco chapter of Creative Mornings at our headquarters in the Mission. This week’s speaker is Cori Johnson, Hollywood native and designer at Rolling Orange, an agency whose clients include Princeton, Stanford, and the New York Philharmonic. Cori also has two solid years of experience in unemployment and job hunting, and has read countless articles about resume fluffing, cover letter writing, interview survival, dealing with rejection, salary negotiation, and other nightmares. She dreams of a world where job seekers and job creators alike can survive the hiring process without going insane.

The event is free, and breakfast is on us. But be sure to RSVP as space is limited. We hope to see you there!

The Linotype’s unique 90-key keyboard.

Typekit is proud to host the West coast premiere of Linotype: The Film, a feature-length documentary centered around the Linotype type casting machine. Called the “Eighth Wonder of the World” by Thomas Edison, the Linotype revolutionized printing and society. The film tells the surprisingly emotional story of the people connected to the Linotype and how it impacted the world.

Director Doug Wilson will be on hand to answer questions after the screening. Arrive early for drinks sponsored by Typekit. Tickets are on sale now, but space is limited, so act fast! The first screening has sold out, but tickets for a second screening are on sale now.

Typekit is proud to once again host the San Francisco chapter of Creative Mornings at our headquarters in the Mission. This week’s speaker is Anchorage native, Tae Kim, a former Design Director for The North Face and Timbuk2 and co-founder of Alite Designs — an outdoor company that makes it simple and fun for people to enjoy being outside.

The event is free, and breakfast is on us. But be sure to RSVP as space is limited. We hope to see you there!

Typekit is proud to once again host the San Francisco chapter of Creative Mornings at our headquarters in the Mission. This week’s speaker is Stephanie Morgan, a serial award-winning producer of social entertainment products. Currently Founder and C3PO at Rabbit, a live social video startup, Stephanie has produced such titles as GodFinger, Star Defense, and more. She’s also spoken in the 2009 WWDC Keynote, founded a dot com, worked on a number of independent films, and successfully survived as a professional card player.

The event is free, and breakfast is on us. But be sure to RSVP as space is limited. We hope to see you there!