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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 beautiful mistake

Posted by Cosimo Lorenzo Pancini in Editorial, Trip on Sep/2022

Cover image ©OFFF TLV 2022 In May 2022 we were contacted by Nitsan Rozenberg and Liri Argov, co-directors of OFFF TLV, the Tel Aviv branch of the worldwide famous OFFF Festival. They asked us to design the catalog for the forthcoming edition, and as soon as they mentioned the proposed theme “OFFF*UCK, celebrating mistakes“, we were immediately hooked. The idea behind the festival theme, created by Awesome studio and described in their “OFFF*UCK manifesto”, is that mistakes are an essential part of the creative process, and that we should embrace them…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