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Erik Spiekermann
Erik Spiekermann (born 30 May 1947 in Stadthagen, Lower Saxony) is a German typographer, designer and writer. He is an honorary professor at the University of the Arts Bremen and ArtCenter College of Design. Biography Spiekermann studied art history at Berlin's Free University, funding himself by running a letterpress printing press in the basement of his house. Between 1972 and 1979, he worked as a freelance graphic designer in London before returning to Berlin and founding MetaDesign with two partners. In 1989, he and his then-wife Joan Spiekermann started FontShop, the first mail-order distributor for digital fonts. FontShop International followed and now publishes the ''FontFont'' range of typefaces. MetaDesign combined clean, teutonic-looking information design and complex corporate design systems for clients like BVG (Berlin Transit), Düsseldorf Airport, Audi, Volkswagen and Heidelberg Printing, amongst others. In 2001, Spiekermann left MetaDesign over policy disagreem ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Stadthagen
Stadthagen () is the capital of the district of Schaumburg, in Lower Saxony, Germany. It is situated approximately 20 km east of Minden and 40 km west of Hanover. The city consists of the districts Brandenburg, Enzen-Hobbensen, Hörkamp-Langenbruch, Krebshagen, Obernwöhren, Probsthagen, Reinsen and Wendthagen-Ehlen. Earlier, there were also the districts Habichhorst, Bruchhof, Blyinghausen, Enzen and Hobbensen. Stadthagen is located on the German Timber-Frame Road. History Count Adolf III of Holstein created a new settlement at the foot of the Bückeberg around 1224. Its site near the Hellweg route testifies to his strategic and commercial wisdom. After the successful clearances of the Dülwald forest around 1224, a new settlement by the name of ''indago comitis'' (the count's enclosure - the same name as The Hague) was first recorded in 1244 when it was described as a city and fort. In 1287 the town changed its name to Grevenalveshagen (Count Adolf's enclosure) and it ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Edenspiekermann
Edenspiekermann is a design and marketing agency with offices in Amsterdam, Berlin, San Francisco, Los Angeles and Singapore. The company is the result of a merger in 2009 between Eden design & communication (Amsterdam) and SpiekermannPartners (Berlin), founded by German typographer Erik Spiekermann. History Edenspiekermann is the result of several mergers and collaborations between design and architectural firms over the past decades.Piersma, A., Jaasma, A. , Stukker, P., Van Dijk, E., Woudenberg, W. (2005). ''Eden design & communication'' Amsterdam: BIS Publishers. Premsela Vonk: 1956 - 1986 In 1956 Benno Premsela and Jan Vonk started a collaboration. Premsela worked at De Bijenkorf where he remained Head of Publicity and Shop Windows until 1963. BRS: 1969 - 1986 In 1969, graphic designers Jan Brinkman and Niko Spelbrink started their collaboration. Guus Ros joined the duo in 1971 and from then on, they continued their cooperation as Brinkman, Ros en Spelbrink. Edo Smits ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
SIL Open Font License
The SIL Open Font License (or OFL in short) is one of the major open font licenses, which allows embedding, or "bundling", of the font in commercially sold products. OFL is a free and open source license. It was created by SIL International, the organization behind ''Ethnologue.'' History The Open Font License was created by SIL International employees Victor Gaultney and Nicolas Spalinger. Gaultney had previously designed the Gentium font and was unsatisfied with existing font licenses. The Open Font License was designed for use with many of SIL's Unicode fonts, including Gentium Plus, Charis SIL, and Andika. The license was in a "public review" stage between 2005 and 2007 and version 1.1 was published in February 2007. Prior to the release of the OFL, the Bitstream Vera fonts had been released in 2003 under most of the same terms and conditions. Open-source fonts are a popular choice among designers, and most open-source fonts utilize the Open Font License. For ex ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Firefox OS
Firefox OS (project name: ''Boot to Gecko'', also known as ''B2G'') is a discontinued open-source operating system made for smartphones, tablet computers, smart TVs, and dongles designed by Mozilla and external contributors. It is based on the rendering engine of the Firefox web browser, Gecko, and on the Linux kernel. It was first commercially released in 2014. Firefox OS was designed to provide a complete, community-based alternative operating system, for running web applications directly or those installed from an application marketplace. The applications use open standards and approaches such as JavaScript and HTML5, a robust privilege model, and open web APIs that can communicate directly with hardware, e.g. cellphone hardware. As such, Mozilla with Firefox OS competed with commercially developed operating systems such as Apple's iOS, Google's Android, Microsoft's Windows Phone, BlackBerry's BlackBerry 10, Samsung's/Linux Foundation's Tizen, and Jolla's Sailfish OS. In ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Fira Sans
Fira Sans is a humanist sans-serif typeface designed by Erik Spiekermann, Ralph du Carrois, Anja Meiners, Botio Nikoltchev of Carrois Type Design and Patryk Adamczyk of Mozilla Corporation. Originally commissioned by Telefónica and Mozilla Corporation as part of the joint effort during the development of Firefox OS. It is a slightly wider and calmer adaptation of Spiekermann's typeface ''Meta'', which was used at Mozilla's brand typeface at the time but optimized for legibility on (small) screens. With the name Fira, Mozilla wanted to communicate the concepts of fire, light and joy but in a language agnostic way to signal the project's global nature. Fira was released in 2013 initially under the Apache License and later reissued under the SIL Open Font License. In its initial 2013 release, Fira Sans was available in four weights with corresponding italics: light, regular, medium, and bold. In May 2014, the number of weights was increased to 16. In 2015, Mozilla added a condensed ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kris Sowersby
The kris, or ''keris'' in the Indonesian language, is an asymmetrical dagger with distinctive blade-patterning achieved through alternating laminations of iron and nickelous iron (''pamor''). Of Javanese origin, the kris is famous for its distinctive wavy blade, although many have straight blades as well, and is one of the weapons commonly used in the '' pencak silat'' martial art native to Indonesia. A kris can be divided into three parts: blade ( or ), hilt (), and sheath (). Each part of the kris is considered a piece of art, often carved in meticulous detail and made from various materials: metal, precious or rare types of wood, or gold or ivory. A kris's aesthetic value covers the (the form and design of the blade, with around 60 variants), the (the pattern of metal alloy decoration on the blade, with around 250 variants), and referring to the age and origin of a kris. Depending on the quality and historical value of the kris, it can fetch thousands of dollars or more. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Symbian S60
The S60 Platform (formerly Series 60 User Interface) was a software platform for smartphones that runs on top of the Symbian operating system. It was created by Nokia based on the 'Pearl' user interface from Symbian Ltd. It was introduced at COMDEX in November 2001 and first shipped with the Nokia 7650 smartphone. The platform has since seen 5 updated editions. Series 60 was renamed to ''S60'' in November 2005. In 2008, the Symbian Foundation was formed to consolidate all the assets of different Symbian platforms (S60, UIQ, MOAP), making it open source. In 2009, based on the code base of S60, the first iteration of the platform since the creation of Symbian Foundation was launched as S60 5th Edition, or Symbian^1, on top of Symbian OS 9.4 as its base. Subsequent iterations were named Symbian^2 (Japanese market only) and Symbian^3. The S60 software was a multivendor standard for smartphones that supports application development in Java MIDP, C++, Python and Adobe Flash. Its ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nokia
Nokia Corporation (natively Nokia Oyj, referred to as Nokia) is a Finnish multinational corporation, multinational telecommunications industry, telecommunications, technology company, information technology, and consumer electronics corporation, established in 1865. Nokia's main headquarters are in Espoo, Finland, in the greater Helsinki Greater Helsinki, metropolitan area, but the company's actual roots are in the Tampere region of Pirkanmaa.HS: Nokian juuret ovat Tammerkosken rannalla (in Finnish) In 2020, Nokia employed approximately 92,000 people across over 100 countries, did business in more than 130 countries, and reported annual revenues of around €23 billion. Nokia is a public limited company listed on the Helsinki Stock Exchange and New York Stock Exchange. [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
FF Meta
FF Meta is a humanist sans-serif typeface family designed by Erik Spiekermann and released in 1991 through his FontFont library. According to Spiekermann, FF Meta was intended to be a "complete antithesis of Helvetica", which he found "boring and bland". It originated from an unused commission for the Deutsche Bundespost (German Federal Post Office). Throughout the 1990s, FF Meta was embraced by the international design community with Spiekermann and E. M. Ginger writing that it had been dubiously praised as the ''Helvetica of the 1990s''. FF Meta has been adopted by numerous corporations and other organizations as a corporate typeface, for signage or in their logo. These include Imperial College London, The Weather Channel, Free Tibet, the television stations WSYR-TV, WIVT and WUTR in upstate New York, Herman Miller, Zimmer Holdings, Mozilla Corporation, Mozilla Foundation, Schaeffler Group, Endemol, Greggs, Digital UK, Liberal Democrats, Mumsnet and Fort Wayne International Ai ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
ITC Officina Serif
ITC may stand for: Companies and corporations *Illinois Terminal Company, US railroad, reporting mark *ITC or ITC Entertainment, British TV company *International Typeface Corporation, now a subsidiary of Monotype Imaging *ITC Transmission, electric transmission company, Michigan, USA *Information Terminals Corporation, predecessor to Verbatim Corporation Tobacco companies *ITC (company), formerly Indian Tobacco Company, India **ITC Hotels *Iranian Tobacco Company Organizations *Independent Transport Commission, UK research charity *International Test Commission, Association to promote effective psychological testing and assessment policies *United States International Trade Commission, federal agency of the United States *International Tin Council, former organisation for tin producers in Cornwall and Malaysia *International Trade Centre, a joint agency of the WTO and the UN *Israel Tennis Centers *Committee of Union and Progress (İttihad ve Terakki Cemiyeti) Science * ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
ITC Officina Sans
ITC may stand for: Companies and corporations *Illinois Terminal Company, US railroad, reporting mark *ITC or ITC Entertainment, British TV company *International Typeface Corporation, now a subsidiary of Monotype Imaging *ITC Transmission, electric transmission company, Michigan, USA *Information Terminals Corporation, predecessor to Verbatim Corporation Tobacco companies *ITC (company), formerly Indian Tobacco Company, India **ITC Hotels *Iranian Tobacco Company Organizations *Independent Transport Commission, UK research charity *International Test Commission, Association to promote effective psychological testing and assessment policies *United States International Trade Commission, federal agency of the United States *International Tin Council, former organisation for tin producers in Cornwall and Malaysia *International Trade Centre, a joint agency of the WTO and the UN *Israel Tennis Centers *Committee of Union and Progress (İttihad ve Terakki Cemiyeti) Science * ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lo-Type
Lo-Type (sometimes Lo-type, or Lo Type; originally Lo-Schrift) is a display typeface originally designed by Louis Oppenheim. Oppenheim named the font using his own initials which he also used to sign his work. Oppenheim designed the avant-garde Lo-Type for Berthold during 1911–1914 under the influence of the emerging modernist era, thus participating in its outburst. In 1980, Oppenheim's Lo-Type was reintroduced with additional weights for phototypesetting by Erik Spiekermann and is still in use today. In its extreme thick–thin contrast balanced with hearty roundness and humorous detail, Lo-Type was originally designed as a display type for advertising, posters and headlines. Typical of its time, it has an irregular outline which gives it a hand cut or ink painted feel. The large x-height and intentionally idiosyncratic shapes make it particularly eye-catching and unique. See also * Louis Oppenheim * Erik Spiekermann Erik Spiekermann (born 30 May 1947 in Stadthagen, Lower ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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