Hallo and welcome to today’s live coverage of the September 22nd 2009 Minneapolis College of Art and Design lecture by typographer Verena Gerlach. The lecture begins at 1pm Central Standard Time and will be mainly “tweeted,” if ye know what I mean.
The above image and text below is provided by associated site Geotypografika.
Above: Lecture poster for Verena Gerlach by MCAD student Emily Reile, 2011. Verena’s presentation (Sept. 22, 2009, 1PM, MCAD Auditorium 150), is sponsored by the MCAD Design Department and AIGA Minnesota, and is open to the public. All are welcome! Look for updates soon on a workshop with Verena and the neue typonauten from grd_3020_f09. For this poster, Emily was inspired by her prior experience with Verena’s FF Chambers Sans (Fontshop).
Herzlich Willkommen, Verena. Sauber, Emily!
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Tweetings! Here’s all the tweets.
it was on for one week, no budget, good times, beers
about 3 hours ago from webVerenas last video was a giant building using the windows to light up NO WAR
about 3 hours ago from webPiotr says it isn’t not as much of a question, more of a comment
about 3 hours ago from webPiotr says there is a sense of closure after Wings of Designer – Verena says it was to put Meg Ryan on screen, there is not a conclusion
about 3 hours ago from webPiotr Szyhalski asks what her conclusion is – it is not a conclusion, she says, it goes on from here – he says there is a sense of closure
about 3 hours ago from webVerena says graffiti artists are not brave enough to do real damage
about 3 hours ago from webquestion about graffiti as it relates to text — answer: influence of graffiti in typography – must separate art graffiti from tags
about 3 hours ago from webBerlin Am Meer is this film http://bit.ly/16xIdP
about 3 hours ago from webwe’re watching a movie which is an opening credits to a movie using Verena typefaces
about 3 hours ago from weblook at Verena’s book designs http://bit.ly/4bV61e
about 3 hours ago from webKarbid with slab serif also
about 3 hours ago from webKarbid Reloaded ist neue!
about 3 hours ago from webhttp://tinyurl.com/mvptb9 hotness!
about 3 hours ago from webSchneidersladen (.com) is using her font families for his identity for his synthesizer shop (awesome shop!)
about 3 hours ago from webVielzweck http://tinyurl.com/l3xw7x
about 3 hours ago from webBern needs new typeface – asks Verena – swiss asks german type designer, Verena, which is crazy because “hello, they are god”
about 3 hours ago from webChamber is still able to be produced with a mill cut (like the original source)
about 3 hours ago from web2006 school of art in Bern asks her to add lowercase letters to the typeface which will become FF Chambers Sans
about 3 hours ago from webgraffiti on front, amazing fantastic hole in the ground in the back
about 3 hours ago from webfrom east to west
about 3 hours ago from webthis line survives in her typeface Chambers Sans
about 3 hours ago from webindex letters Verena got to keep when they switched to a new signage system — these letters were held up to the board by a bottom line
about 3 hours ago from webnew project started at HotT
about 3 hours ago from webThe House of the Teacher is a community of creativity
about 3 hours ago from webThe House of the Teacher is where she moves to and works
about 3 hours ago from webVerena opens up her own studio
about 3 hours ago from webclients already in place
about 3 hours ago from webpost-school
about 3 hours ago from webstreet signs changed from socialistic names back to royal family names – this is why the plastic signs were at teh flea market
about 3 hours ago from webfun note – Verena was able to buy a bunch of these plastic signs from the flea market
about 3 hours ago from webplastic white with black core, carved out – weatherproof.
about 3 hours ago from weblack of metal means plastic used
about 3 hours ago from webin the east, they did not design. mechanical.
about 3 hours ago from webberlin is split, type is split
about 3 hours ago from web1961 the wall is painted on the ground – berlin is split
about 3 hours ago from webeastern typeface
about 3 hours ago from webthree different sizes of plates for word sizes
about 3 hours ago from webErbar Grotesk 1926 (sp?)
about 3 hours ago from webcity street types
about 3 hours ago from webenamel street signs rather than paint, signs on candelabra in the streets instead of on the sides of buildings – better better
about 3 hours ago from webthe street signs were double, aka there were two systems due to the wall, so they were going to be made into 1 – photograph time
about 3 hours ago from webdigitization of the street signs – yay!
about 3 hours ago from webin the streets
about 3 hours ago from webVerena tests the Karbid on fliers and such for the night life
about 3 hours ago from websome sarifs fell off (because those buildings, they just hella fell apart too)
about 3 hours ago from websweeps added to Karbid due to Lucian Bernhard http://tinyurl.com/mymub9 Verena’s hero
about 3 hours ago from webthe g’s the g’s the g’s are where the descenders shine so hard
about 3 hours ago from webdat lowercase g is this one: http://tinyurl.com/nho6xp
about 3 hours ago from weblove dat lowercase g
about 3 hours ago from webtypeface made is Karbid Display http://bit.ly/5vuyP
about 3 hours ago from webthe “a” is all art nouveau
about 3 hours ago from webVerena Gerlach was born in Berlin and studied Visual Communication at Kunsthochschule Berlin Weissensee.
about 3 hours ago from webcreating a new typeface 1998 diploma work
about 3 hours ago from webRescue
about 3 hours ago from webSkeletons of typefaces painted skins on top
about 3 hours ago from webVerena notes that this project is not just to say that replacing these types is bad, but just to note it
about 3 hours ago from websome signs kept Zionskirchestrasse 67
about 4 hours ago from webblock means it is easy to paint to the block – the house – the brick
about 4 hours ago from webFehrbelliner Strasse 93 – Moderne Berliner Block a 1910
about 4 hours ago from webko collection
about 4 hours ago from webpainted letters are based on metal types in 1989 – now there is graffiti – rather sporadic weird and wild graffiti i think
about 4 hours ago from webHackeshen Hofe on Rosenthaler Strasse 40/41
about 4 hours ago from webRosenthaler Strasse 40/41
about 4 hours ago from webZionskirchstrasse 79 – in this building lives the lady who made the type face which is the official MCAD face
about 4 hours ago from web1991-97 Berlin (East) photo project beginnt
about 4 hours ago from webPlastic signs cover beautiful letterings without cleaning
about 4 hours ago from webGDR based on economy of scarcity
about 4 hours ago from webThe wall is totally gone, basically? There’s a cobblestone step with no marking – so sad!
about 4 hours ago from webThe wall is gone and I keep typing “Wings of Designer” instead of “Wings of Desire”
about 4 hours ago from webLohmuhlen Brucke ala Wings of Desire
about 4 hours ago from web1989 big party time.
about 4 hours ago from webVerena is a West Berliner
about 4 hours ago from web“In any case you cant get lost in Berlin. No matter where you go, you’ll always end up at the wall.” Wings of Desire.
about 4 hours ago from webCowboy relative. Oscar is her relative cowboy.
about 4 hours ago from webVerena just completed like 500 books in the past few days apparently.
about 4 hours ago from webhttp://www.fraugerlach.de/ tminus 0 minutes
about 4 hours ago from webJust confirmed, finally, that the new design chair is Bernard Canniffe. Really really pumped up about that.
about 4 hours ago from webOk ZO here’s the official post http://tinyurl.com/kkzpeu
about 4 hours ago from webThe official title of this lecture is “Letters from Berlin”
about 4 hours ago from webPeople are filing in, caffeine is at a comfortable level. Note: the Mellow Yellow you buy at the fountain here at the MCAD is NOT mellow.
about 4 hours ago from webSee this book, probably not until the lecture is over though, as it’ll begin in t-minus 15 minutes http://tinyurl.com/nz9bv3
about 4 hours ago from webVerena has just let me in on a little wonder called “A Line of Type” a comic book about the history of typography http://tinyurl.com/nz9bv3
about 4 hours ago from webThe lecture today is by typographic wizard and Berliner miss Verena Gerlach! Find her internet space here: http://www.fraugerlach.de/
about 4 hours ago from webFirst of all, take a look at this link here: http://bit.ly/ggTIu This is where we are.
about 4 hours ago from webSpecial event! Welcome to today’s special event lecture tweets session! This is the first time Design Junkies is doing this.
about 4 hours ago from web
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