I attended the Typo London conference last week. The event which hosted a wide range of speakers from Neville Brody to Lawrence Weiner, had the theme of ‘Places’ but to be honest was much broader than that. It was brilliantly facilitated by Erik Spiekermann and Adrian Shaughnessy (among others) and was easily the best conference I’ve been to in some time. One of the best things about it was that most of the speakers stayed for the duration and watched the other presentation, which created a real feel of community.

It’s the first time this event has been held in England, having previously been in Berlin and judging by the feedback from everyone, it looks like it’s going to return to the capital next year. I will be putting together a presentation covering all the amazing talks which will be shared here but for the time being here’s additional reading about it from Creative Review and Design Assembly.

Punctuation is not just a great friend of the copywriter and author. Designers and typographers have long valued the punctuation mark for its succinctness and beauty of form, bringing simplicity, clarity, homour and intelligence to design. This charming Print.Magazine gallery showcases a history of the question mark and exclamation mark in design through the years.

Andy Neal has been in touch to let us know about a collaborative student project that has become this years UCF A0 promotional course poster. Check out the making of it here – I found the course to be a careful balance of theory and practise a with a massive emphasis on ideas generation and thinking. If you’re a student considering where to go to study graphic design, illustration etc. Falmouth should be right up there on your list.

Following on from Phil’s recent UP retro posters I though I’d share these

An excellent ad campaign that the retailer, John Lewis, is currently running in the UK. Kate Forrester, a famous illustrator designed this beautiful campaign. Check out 5 of the 10 here on her blog.

To celebrate the release of Pixar’s “Up” on DVD and Blu-ray in the US, eight gorgeous retro-style posters for the film have been released. Designed by Paul Conrad and very nice indeed. See more of Paul’s work here