I WAS IN HAMBURG last month at the kind invitation of the Peter Schmidt Group , who asked me to speak at their Beyond Type event. Despite the jet lag, I managed to speak in full sentences about ...
I WAS ASKED TO SPEAK at Adobe MAX once again this year, which gave me another opportunity to try and get people excited about some of the latest developments in font technology, and why I think t...
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AAAARGH! Pink Mince and some of the source material for the “Punk Mince ” and “The Stroke ” issues is featured in this incredible exhibition about Letraset at the Sheffield Institute of...
http://ultrasparky.org/archives/2018/10/letraset_the_di.html
THE TYPE DIRECTORS CLUB held a one-day conference called Type Drives Culture , to look at the various ways that typography influences and reflects the world around us. I was asked to discuss my ...
http://ultrasparky.org/archives/2018/05/hot_type_at_typ.html
I RECENTLY GOT BACK FROM DUBAI, where I'd been invited to speak at the -ing Creative Festival . Super fun, but that’s another story altogether. The PR team of the festival lined me up with Shor...
FOR A FEW YEARS NOW, I've been one of the instructors of the SVA TypeLab , a month-long summer type-design course at the School of Visual Arts. It's always a great experience that keeps me on my ...
http://ultrasparky.org/archives/2018/03/sva_typelab_bre.html
WHILE I WAS IN MONTREAL last September to see friends and colleagues, talk about gay porn typography , and get a couple of new tattoos , I was asked to have a quick chat:
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...AFTER ALL THOSE TYPOGRAPHY TALKS. I had a chat with the fellas from Recon this summer about Pink Mince and fetish and stuff. “When we visited NYC we met with Recon member spark, the crea...
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IT MAY NOT COME AS A SURPRISE that a lot of my job at this point is yapping about fonts. This talk took place on November 7, 2017 in the Koret Auditorium at the San Francisco Public Library as p...
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I'M GIVING A TALK NEXT WEEK at the Revolve conference in Charleston, SC, and they just published this fun profile piece to promote it a bit: > Dan Rhatigan > describes > himself as a�...
http://ultrasparky.org/archives/2017/10/typographys_alp.html
AFTER A TRIAL RUN of this subject at the Kerning conference this summer, I gave another presentation about the typography of vintage gay magazines, at ATypI in Montreal a couple of weeks ago. ...
http://ultrasparky.org/archives/2017/09/marginalized_ty_1.html
Kerning 2017, June 9 — Dan Rhatigan - Marginalized Typography from GrUSP on Vimeo .
http://ultrasparky.org/archives/2017/08/marginalized_ty.html
FASTEST UPLOAD EVER! I just gave this talk earlier today at TYPO Labs in Berlin. I've barely slept for the last two days, so I'm surprised that I sound so lucid. > Since last September’s�...
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WHEN I STARTED AT ADOBE last September, the Adobe Type team had been hard at work for quite some time on a major project: Source Han Serif , a serif-style family supporting pan-CJK languages. Thi...
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JUST A QUICK interview feature in Print about some upcoming things in the type world: > VARIABLE FONTS WITH DAN RHATIGAN > > By: Callie Budrick | > April 1, 2017 > > If�...