TYPO Berlin – Touch is the biggest design congress in Europe to discuss why, in addition to all its functionality, design is always considered successful when it touches our hearts. Is one of the higher moments in the life of a designer, when invited to be a speaker.
Designers and experts from the art industry, the media and business will meet for three days of presentations, debates and workshops dealing with the “touching” moments of design, this May from tomorrow to 18th 2013. About 1,200 designers, typographers and mediamakers, plus 70 journalists and bloggers from all over the world are expected to attend the biggest European design conference.
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“Touch is more intimate than thoughts”, says TYPO Berlin. In addition to its functional mandate, design has also always had the job of touching people. That is the aim of the invited designers like Jessica Walsh, designer & art director working in New York City.
Also Paper Lux, a Timber framework house in Schanzenviertel District, with a staff of 12 people with Passion, Esteem, Cooperation spirit, Fun, Curiosity, Delight, Pioneer spirit, Conceptuality, Palpability, Aesthetic in common and a wired paper fetish will touch the public this May.
Michael Johnson runs johnson banks, which has long had an interest in branding the 4c’s – cities, countries, culture and charities. He’s worked on many projects for the British Government, art centres in Philadelphia and Paris, a space observatory in Japan and bilingual typeface in China.
Between all the speaker is the independent designer and typographer Henrik Kubel running is own design and typography studio with a core philosophy of drawing new type for every project they take on. Kubel co-founded A2/SW/HK in London with Scott Williams in 2000 upon graduation from Royal College of Art.
Van Bo Le-Mentzel is one of the invited speakers, is an architect and inventor known by One-Sqm-House, furniture for people “on the dole” and also by his work as editor/publisher of the book “Hartz IV Möbel”.
Design should make objects and graphics attractive, make people feel they would like to touch them, make people want to have them around. In this relationship, surfaces constitute the interface between object and user. This is especially true of digital interfaces, which nowadays really are in permanent contact with the user via touch screens, which render the relationship between person and digital appliance a particularly intimate one. TYPO Touch is dedicated to the touching aspects of design.
