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Fontstand and STA series continues with Nicole Dotin

The type designer and partner at the Process Type Foundry heads to Chicago for the second event in our Font Faces series.

Fontstand partnered with the The Society of Typographic Arts in Chicago to curate the Font Faces type lecture series which started with James Edmondson of Oh No Type Foundry last October. The next event will be held on Thursday, June 28, and will welcome Nicole Dotin of Process Type Foundry, an independent type design studio based in Minneapolis.

Nicole will be talking about finding her way into type design and what it looks like to run type foundry today. By discussing her design process, she hopes to demystify the creation of new typefaces and type design in general. Lastly, she'll talk about Alphacrit, a new initiative she started through the Alphabettes that aims to connect aspiring and professional type designers.

As before, Fontstand will be giving away $20 credit to all attendees of the event which could be used for renting the fonts of Process Type Foundry including Nicoles’ own Elena or Pique for free, while paying full royalties to the foundry. Don't miss this – get your tickets now.

[fontstand]

Fontstand and STA to organize a new lecture series in Chicago

Fontstand partnered with The Society of Typographic Arts (STA) in Chicago to organise a regular series of lectures on type design and typography.

STA was established in 1927, Chicago’s oldest professional design organization, promoting high standards and focus on the art and craft of typography, design, and visual communication. Fontstand, a typeface discovery tool, partnered with STA to curate a new lecture series program to bring inspirational type designers to Chicago.

The first in the series is James Edmondson of OH no Type Foundry, a chill, San Francisco-based type designer that reinvents expressive under-appreciated genres of type design. Save the date, Tuesday October 24, 6pm, at Leo Burnett. Get your tickets here. As a bonus, James will conduct a Type & Lettering Crit the following night. Don't miss this amazing opportunity.

Fontstand and STA named this series of talks ‘Font Faces’, and plan to bring a mix of type designers to Chicago every spring and fall. Fontstand will be giving away $20 credit to all attendees of the event for the fonts of the presented author — this time, James’ fonts such as Hobeaux. Even thought the font rental will be offered for free, Fontstand will pay the royalties to the authors to support the work of type designers.

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Pictures from the STA Event at The Coop

Last month we were thrilled to host this Society of Typographic Arts event at The Coop! We had a blast and really hope that the STA will come over again soon to party with us. You can find more photos from the event in this STA Flickr Set, or find out about upcoming STA events here.