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THE ZETAFONTS TYPETOUR 2024

Posted by Veronica Iodice in News, Trip on Mar/2024

Our Spring 2024 Type Tour is unveiled! Meet the Zetafonts team in a festival near you! We’re delighted to bring you an exclusive update on our upcoming Spring 2024 Type Tour, where we’ll be diving into a whirlwind of events, conferences, and creative showcases across the globe. Not just a series of promotional events, but a way for us to meet with fellow type and visual enthusiasts, share our passions, and discover the diverse and dynamic world of typography. First on our itinerary is Hadath Alkhatt in Cairo, Egypt (3-10 March); this event celebrates Arabic calligraphy and will take place at the Seven Pillars International…read more

Zetafonts goes to Offf Festival 2023

Posted by Debora Manetti in News, Trend Reports, Trip on Mar/2023

The next stage of the Zetafonts Type-Tour takes us to OFFF Barcelona 2023, the largest showcase of contemporary visual creativity and design. With 3 full days of talks from 64 international speakers, interactive activities and more, this festival represents for us not only a fantastic opportunity for networking and good time together, but also punctuates the presentation of the new issue of our annual Type Trends publication. The 2023 issue, The Counter Spaces – Typography in the Age of Black Swans, explores the counter-trends currently emerging in the world of design and typography, that have arisen…read more

A walk in deep dreams: designing type with artificial intelligence.

Posted by Cosimo Lorenzo Pancini in Case studies, News on Nov/2022

In early summer 2022, two image generation softwares based on neural networks were released in open beta to the public: Dall-E by OpenAI and Midjourney AI. We had been interested in artificial intelligence and creativity assisted by neural networks since long time, and had been already admirers of their “unreasonable effectiveness“. But these new models not only far outperformed the older ones, but even our best expectations on the quality of imagery and design generated by neural networks. While everybody was hooked on the capacity of these models to produce beautiful sci-fi concept art or realistic photographic imagery from…read more

The Zetafonts TypeTour 2022 continues

Posted by Debora Manetti in News, Trip on Aug/2022

After the stages of TypeCon21, Typographic Festival 2022 (New York), Milano Graphic Festival and Offf Barcelona 22, our TypeTour continues towards truly intense autumn. Here are the next design events in which we are proudly involved: TIPOTECA ITALIANA · Sept 16-17 We will start in Italy, and we will be hosted in a wonderful temple of typography near Treviso: Tipoteca Italiana. There will be a 6 hrs workshop to learn how to do a font in a day (type design basics), and a lecture about our challenge to rediscover the forgotten masterpieces of…read more

The right of letters to be free

Posted by Debora Manetti in News on Mar/2022

It’s not a secret that the letter ‘Z’ has become a symbol for Russians who support the invasion of Ukraine. As a team deeply tied to the ideals of peace, kindness, and collaboration we can only repudiate any kind of war action. We believe that war is a primal, immoral language. Languages that we, letter lovers, prefer to be entrusted to peaceful and constructive communication. We claim the free meaning of a common letter. Let’s save the fate of the letter Z! Z is for zeal Z is for zappy…read more