Скачать или смотреть Simon Thiefes & Joshua Haymann: Opaque tools — Questioning the use of mainstream layout software

Watch all presentations at www.typographytheorypractice.xyz

Simon Thiefes works as designer, typographer, and educator. He teaches type design and digital toolmaking at HAW Hamburg, developing open source tool based approaches together with the students. He works on projects including wayfinding, websites, printed matter, and multimedia projects. He often collaborates with Joshua Haymann under the umbrella of Haymann Thiefes Studio. Joshua Haymann is a Paris based freelance designer and educator. His work balances illustration and animation, typographic and systematic design projects. These include books, websites, and film titles for a variety of clients: architects, art publishers, film makers, and tech companies. He teaches design in a community high school in the suburbs of Paris. Together with Simon Thiefes, a fellow type design student at Reading, he founded Haymann Thiefes Studio in 2019.

In this presentation, 'Opaque tools — Questioning the use of mainstream layout software' Simon Thiefes and Joshua Haymann explore the role of the designer and the changes that have occurred as technology and industry have evolved, and how recent tendencies might hint at alternatives: the rise of self-publishing, open-source tools becoming more popular in their use, and distribution of labour by means of digital communication.

—

Typography Theory Practice was a one-day conference on Saturday 19 October 2024 at Leeds Beckett University, organised by Professor Fraser Muggeridge, that explored how typographic theories and propositions can manifest in practice, can be used to explain practice, and become practice. The conference brought typographic theory and practice together across a range of contexts and applications.