We’ve joined up with the TYPO Berlin team to offer one lucky person the chance to win a ticket to TYPO Berlin 2015. This year’s TYPO conference will take place from 21–23 May in Haus der Kulturen, Tiergarten under the theme of Character. More than 50 international experts from across the areas of design, communications, typography and psychology will present strategies against a culture of superficiality.

From Russia with love: An insight into the ten conference days in Moscow that had a lasting impact. From turning letter-drawing rules on their head, to learning about “functionovelty” and getting to know the outlaw among punctuation marks: Part 2 explores, questions, and confirms conventions.

Round or rounded type is omnipresent on packaging and in advertising for ice cream, soya milk, yogurt, pizza dough, gummy bears as well as shampoo, toothpaste, computers or even petrol; the list of application possibilities is long and as diverse as the origins of this style in type design. On the one hand, typefaces with rounded terminals and corners are an expression of a trend that reoccurs from time to time, but beyond all aesthetic motives rounded type can be a problem solver for technological challenges, such as backlit signs and bad screen resolution.

From Russia with love: The Serebro Nabora conference took place in Moscow on 29/30 November 2014 – embedded in a week of intense workshops around type design and technology. A great experience (and not cold at all). Part 1: The Dutch Invasion.

As part the of celebrations for our Women in Design Week, we are delighted to be hosting a Twitter Q&A with illustrator and graphic design extraordinaire Ulrike Rausch, founder of Liebe Fonts on Thursday.