Our latest newsletter // September 2010

NEW RELEASE Maiola 2.0We are proud to announce the new release of Veronika Burian’s multi-award winning Maiola. Originally released in 2005, Maiola was an immediate success. It won the renowned TDC competition in 2004 where it was also recognized as a “judge’s choice”. The update to this beautiful font family includes the addition of over 240 glyphs to the original character set covering Latin A, Cyrillic and Greek. Maiola 2.0 features new ornaments, stylistic alternates, ligatures, superior letters, fractions and more. Furthermore, several glyphs were significantly improved and the kerning was fine tuned for better performance.TYPE IN USE 12 games for children and adultsA new book by Czech publisher Práh is using our font family Athelas for main body text. Very well-designed by prague-based Klara Kvízová from ReDesign studio, it features 12 rather unusual games for the whole family. The beautifully executed and witty illustrations are done by Michaela KukoviÄ�ová.EDUCATION Letter and Text conferenceJosé Scaglione was invited to lead a workshop and present a lecture in the upcoming Editorial Design Conference that will be held in Santa Fe, Argentina, on October 12-14. The conference programme includes discussion panels, lectures and exhibits that will deal with subjects related to typography, typesetting and legibility in the context of editorial design.ARTICLES Interview in ÉtapesThe July 2010 issue of French design magazine étapes is featuring an interview with Veronika Burian, the first of a series about women lecturers at this years TYPO Berlin. Linda Kudrnovská, the chief editor of the czech magazine TYPO, starts with questions about Veronikas talk on type combinations, continued by asking about her view on type trends and her experience with multilingual/-script typography.TYPE IN USE City PressAdelle was selected to be used in the redesign of City Press, a Sunday newspaper, aimed at black readers in South Africa. It is the third bigges

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