Understanding Fonts

Events in Mexico

Dave Crossland — Thu, 01 Mar 2012 00:01:16 +0000

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.

If you would like to attend any of these events, please email (en espanol) my friend and local Libre Culture activist Irene Soria for details

Many thanks to Irene for all her hard work and dedication to organize all these events!

Photos from Bogota

Dave Crossland — Mon, 27 Feb 2012 14:48:04 +0000

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.

Poster: Events in Bogotá, Colombia

Dave Crossland — Mon, 13 Feb 2012 06:02:16 +0000

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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

Please Support Metamaquina 3D

Dave Crossland — Mon, 13 Feb 2012 04:21:40 +0000

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

Report: Lecture and Workshop at University of Aveiro, Portugal

Dave Crossland — Thu, 09 Feb 2012 18:09:16 +0000

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.

Free Software Meeting in Guatemala City: Photos

Dave Crossland — Tue, 07 Feb 2012 17:09:01 +0000

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)

Events in Guatemala

Dave Crossland — Thu, 02 Feb 2012 06:30:02 +0000

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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.

Tiempo atrás el software solía ser igual, pero el movimiento del software libre liberó el conocimiento, las herramientas y el negocio del software.

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

Generic Poster for 2012 Events

Dave Crossland — Thu, 26 Jan 2012 21:13:36 +0000

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!

Typography in Chile

Dave Crossland — Tue, 10 Jan 2012 11:22:26 +0000

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

Caldas Workshop Photos

Dave Crossland — Tue, 10 Jan 2012 11:18:33 +0000

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!