Author Archives: Dave Crossland

(Poster, Copyright (c) 2012, Ricardo Velázquez, Karina Diaz Barriga) (Poster, Copyright (c) 2012, All Rights Reserved) (Poster, Copyright (c) 2012, La Cultura Libre, All Rights Reserved) I have arrived in Mexico City and have a very packed schedule! There is also a Spanish “Dave Crossland en México” website with more details about the events here. [...]

Jaime Romero took some great photos of my type sketching workshop, at the Facultad de Mercadeo, Comunicación y Artes at the Politécnico Grancolombiano in Bogotá, Colombia (www.poli.edu.co) in February 2012. http://www.flickr.com/photos/davelab6/sets/72157629466749833/ There is also a news article about the workshop on the University website.

Download PDF 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 – [...]

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; [...]

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 [...]

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)

Download Poster PDF 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: [...]

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 [...]

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!