International Design Talks

A Typeface is a Chair

Stephen Coles
San Francisco 2013
Friday, 12 April 2013 | 14:00 | Screening Room

A Typeface is a Chair

Stephen Coles
San Francisco 2013 | Friday, 12 April 2013 | 14:00 | Screening Room |
A simple metaphor that can enlighten the ways in which type is made, judged, selected, and used.
Stephen Coles

Stephen Coles

Writer, Typographer(Oakland, California)
Stephen Coles is an editor and typographer living in Oakland and Berlin. He publishes Fonts In Use and Typographica, consults with type foundries on editorial content and with various organizations on typeface selection and licensing. Stephen is author of the book The... Read More

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