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I have prepared a simple poster for the events coming up this week in Bogotá, Colombia:

Martes 14/2 – Workshop: Type Sketching / Taller: Tipo de Dibujo 14:00-17:00 Universidad Politécnico Gran Colombiano

Miércoles 15/2 – Lecture: Libre Type Culture / Conferencia: Cultura Tipografía Libre 10:00-12:00 Universidad Jorge Tadeo Lozano, Hemiciclo

Jueves 16/2 – Workshop: Type Sketching / Taller: Tipo de Dibujo 09:00-12:00 Universidad Nacional de Colombia, Bogotá

Many thanks to Viviana Monsalve for helping to arrange these events. Viviana is a Colombian type designer with an MA in Typeface Design from the University of Buenos Aires. The foundry she co-founded, FontFuror, have released several excellent libre typefaces: Magra, Buenard and Enriqueta

I already gave a lecture at the Universidad Nacional de Colombia here in Bogotá, on Saturday, and got some positive comments:

I’m sad I don’t speak Spanish and can’t adequately engage my audiences here, so I am very happy with such feedback

Felipe Sanches has co-founded a libre culture company in Brasil that is developing 3D printing technologies, MetaMaquina 3D.

To start the business, they are raising seed funding using the crowd-funding service Catarse.me. Catarse is similar to KickStarter, the most famous crowd funding service, which is only for those with a bank account in the USA; this week, Kickstarter recently enabled a couple of projects to raise over US$1,000,000, which is historic and really proves the potential for this funding model.

Please support Felipe’s new venture:

http://catarse.me/pt/projects/532-metamaquina-3d

Pedro Amado has kindly written a detailed review (in Portuguese) of my lecture and workshop last month at the University of Aveiro, Portugal:

http://pedamado.wordpress.com/2012/02/09/conferencia-e-workshop-de-dave-crossland-ua/

Thanks to Pedro for organizing this event and his dedication to documenting it – including editing and publishing a video:

Dave Crossland @ UA from Pedro Amado on Vimeo.

Dave Crossland’s conference at the Communication and Art Department of the University of Aveiro, January 9, 2012.

Pictures: https://picasaweb.google.com/pedamado/20120109DaveCrosslandUA?authuser=0&feat=directlink

More info on the Conference and Workshop: http://wp.me/p4vwP-DZ

This work is licensed under a CCreative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License.

Here are some photos by Sebastian Oliva of the informal type sketching workshop Dave did in Guatemala City last weekend:

http://labs.sebastianoliva.com/gallery/main.php/v/FSM_2012-02-04/

(They are Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike licensed)

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UPDATE: 2012-01-04 NEW SCHEDULE FOR USAC BELOW (NUEVO HORARIO PARA LA USAC)

Dave Crossland will be doing lectures and workshops in 4 locations in Guatemala:

Sábado 4 TEC z4
15:30 – 17:30 Conferencia: Why free fonts? (¿Por qué las fuentes libres?)

Martes 7 Universidad Rafael Landivar (URL), Auditorium
17:30 – 19:00 Conferencia: Libre Type Culture (La Cultura Tipográfica Libre)

Miércoles 8 Universidad Rafael Landivar (URL)
07:00 – 09:00 Conferencia: Free Culture Law (Las Leyes de la Cultura Libre)

Miércoles 8 University of San Carlos de Guatemala (USAC) Facultad de Arquitectura
15:00 – 16:30 Conferencia: Libre Type Culture (La Cultura Tipográfica Libre)
17:00 – 19:30 Type Sketching Workshop (Tipo de Dibujo Taller)

Fonts cannot be shared and when they do not work right, you are not allowed to fix them. Making your own typefaces is
a black art, hidden in mystery.

A long time ago software pro-grams were the same, but the free software movement has freed the knowledge, the tools,
and the business of software.

Now it is time to free fonts. Dave Crossland reveals how to design typefaces using only libre software—and how to earn money doing it.

Las tipografías privativas no se pueden compartir, y cuando están mal, no se pueden componer. Hacer tu propia tipografía es un arte oscuro y envuelto en misterio.

Ahora es tiempo de liberar la tipografía. Dave Crossland revelara como diseñar tipografías, utilizando software libre y haciendo dinero con ellas.

Para asistir al evento, el correo electrónico de dave@understandingfonts.com

I have made a new generic poster for upcoming events in 2012. It can be easily printed and photocopied as it is made in Libre Office (ODF) format.

Download the PDF and the complete sources (ODF + Fonts)

It is in English, but please feel free to translate it. A Portuguese translation was made for the events at the University of Aveiro by Pedro Amado. Thanks Pedro!

Chile Tipográfico – english subtitles from Krft.tv on Vimeo.

Marco Avilez kindly sent me a link to this great little documentary about typography in Chile

Ricardo Santos has kindly uploaded some photos from the type sketching workshop at Escola Superior de Artes e Design last week in Caldas da Rainha.

Thanks to Ruben, Ricardo and Natanael for inviting me to do the workshop!

Dave Crossland will be running 2 type sketching workshops in Portugal this month, one at the Escola Superior de Artes e Design in Caldas da Rainha (ESAD CR) on Thursday 5th January and one at the Department of Communication and Art at the University of Aveiro (DeCA) on Monday 9th January (more details here). Please email dave@understandinglimited.com if you are interested in these events as spaces are limited and attendance is gratis