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Lectures and interviews
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Click on the title to watch some of my lectures, in different languages.
‘Changing
places:
Arnhem – Berlin – Warszawa’
English-spoken. 20 May 2005. TypoBerlin
2005 ‘Change’. Video by FontShop. Dur. 34:26
Martin Majoor discussed typeface design on the road, posters in the streets of Warsaw, and his favorite vodka from Poland. Before that he opened his presentation with an intimate goodbye to Evert Bloemsma who died surprisingly some days before at the age of 47.
German-spoken. 3
April 2009. Fachhochschule Dortmund. Video by Sebastian Tomczak.
Duration 36:32
Martin Majoor vereint in seiner Arbeit die Traditionen des klassischen Schrifthandwerks mit der schnellen Entwicklung der heutigen Technik und kann als Pionier der digitalen Schriftgestaltung bezeichnet werden.
Dutch-spoken. 16 February 2010. O.P.A.
Showroom Arnhem. Video by Adam Chapman. Duration 30:01
Martin Majoor over zijn lettertypes. Over het begin van zijn carrière: 1984, de tijd van de oer-Apple. Zijn eerste eigen letter, Scala, uitgebracht in 1990 en al snel een enorm succes. Later volgden nog letters als Seria en Nexus.
English-spoken. 4
April 2010. Fachhochschule Dortmund. Interview by Donald Beekman and
Liza Enebeis. Video by Britta Mertens. Duration
37:06
Martin Majoor discusses his first lettering books given to him by his grandfather. He recounts his art school days in Arnhem and his teaching philosophies. He also speaks about his hate for Helvetica. You can listen to the same interview on the website of TypeRadio.
Dutch-spoken. 16 February 2010. O.P.A.
Showroom Arnhem. Video by Adam Chapman. Duration 19:21
Martin Majoor en Jos Buivenga ontwerpen samen een letter, broederlijk naast elkaar achter het beeldscherm, of skypend over het continent. Het resultaat van dit bijzondere project is Questa: een nieuwe interpretatie van moderne lettertypes, maar ook verwant met historische vormen. En de bron van heel veel ontwerpplezier.
Lectures
A list of lectures I have presented since 1987 (in reverse chronological order).
‘Die
Schriftsippe als Instrument subtiler Typographie’
Bielefelder Bibel // Buchvorstellung
Fachhochschule Bielefeld, Haus Wellensiek, Bielefeld
16 March 2016
‘The Questa Project’
Martin Majoor & Jos Buivenga
Ketelhuis, Apeldoorn
18 January 2016
‘A Story of Serif Sans Slab’
Polish-Japanese Academy of Information Technology,
Warsaw
18 January 2016
‘Vreemde types, die schreeflozen’
Plantin Instituut voor Typografie
Museum Plantin-Moretus, Antwerpen
26 September 2015
‘Faces & Typefaces’
Polish-Japanese Academy of Information Technology,
Warsaw
28 April 2015
‘Faces & Typefaces’
A BAR Affair, TypeCrit with Martin Majoor
Studio BAR, Amsterdam
19 February 2015
Poster (below right), designed by
Seton Beggs and Jochem Ruijgrok
‘Typography:
what turns you me on?’
Fundacja Wislawy Szymborskiej
Metaforma Cafe, Krakow
21 November 2014
Poster (above left), designed by
Tomek Budzyń
‘The Questa Project’
during the ‘Qualität– buchstäblich’ conference
Schloss Raabs a.d. Thaya, Austria
28 August 2014
Poster (below right)
‘About Shoes & Sans Serifs’
École supérieure d’art et de design d’Amiens (Esad)
18 March 2014
‘My life with type’
Polish-Japanese Academy of Information Technology,
Warsaw
15 January 2014
‘The Power of Tradition’
During ‘The Future of Design’ conference
Centrum Sztuki Fort Sokolnickiego, Warsaw
26 October 2013
‘In die Höhle des Löwen’
Zurich University of the Arts (Zürcher Hochschule der
Künste)
Zürich
18 May 2013
‘A
Taste of Type’
Missouri State University
Springfield MO, US
5 April 2013
Poster (above left), designed by
Chris Escobar
‘Iets
met letters’
Nijmeegs Ontwerp Platform
LUX Nijmegen
18 Februari 2013
‘Italic
– A short history’
Akademia Sztuk Pięknych, Katowice
1 April 2012
‘My
life with type’
Akademia Sztuk Pięknych, Katowice
30 March 2012
‘I
hate Helvetica’
Facultad de Bellas Artes de Madrid
16 February 2012
‘My
life with type’
Escuela Superior de Diseño de Madrid
13 February 2012
‘1960–1980–1984–1996–2004–2010’
Center of Contemporary Art (CoCA/CSW) in Toruń during
PLASTER – International Festival of Typography and Poster Design
27 May 2011
Poster (below right), designed by
Krzysztof Białowicz
‘Two worlds - my life as a type designer’
Korean Society of Typography, Museum of Art (MoA) of the Seoul
National University
22 October 2010
Poster (above left) designed by
Sulki & Min Choi.
Seoul National University
20 October 2010
‘Two
worlds - my life as a type designer’
Kaywon School of Art & Design, Seoul
18 October 2010
Sandoll Communications, Seoul
18 October 2010
‘The
Questa Project’
ATypI 2010 conference, Dublin. Together with Jos Buivenga.
11 September 2010
‘Liefde
voor Letters’
Martin Majoor & Jos Buivenga
over hun lettertypes en The Questa project’.
O.P.A., Showroom Arnhem. Together with Jos Buivenga.
16 February 2010
Poster (below left)
designed by Isabelle Vaverka & Jeremy Jansen.
33pt. Eskapade, Fachhochschule Dortmund
3 April 2009
Poster (below right) designed by Projektgruppe 33pt. Eskapade.
‘Zwei Welten’
gespräche
an der graphischen, TGA
Typographische Gesellschaft Austria, Vienna
25 March 2009
‘Two Worlds’
Ligaduras
2008, Auditori del FAD,
Barcelona
3 June 2008
‘Two
Worlds’
About the
book (Le livre et ses desseins)
imec/Estienne Colloquium, Abbaye
d’Ardenne, Caen
15 November 2007
Poster
(folded, below left) designed by Jean-Philippe Bretin & Marion
Duval.
‘20 Jahre, 5 Schriften, 1 Philosophie’
Stilvorlagen #3, Hamburg
University of Applied Sciences, HAW Hamburg
13 June 2007
Poster
(above right) designed by Sarah März.
‘20 years, 5 typefaces, 1
philosophy’
A4
Typographic Friday
Royal Library, Stockholm
31 March 2006
‘Helvetica
was a mistake’
Werkplaats
Typografie, Arnhem
7 November 2006
Katowice School of Fine Arts
21 September 2005
‘Changing places:
Arnhem-Berlin-Warszawa’
TypoBerlin 2005 ‘Change’,
Haus der Kulturen der Welt, Berlin
20 May 2005
‘Using type as image’
Festiwal Reklamy KTR,
Warsaw
10 April 2005
‘A Dutchman in Poland’
Katowice School of Fine
Arts
14 December 2004
Handmade
poster (below left) designed by unknown student.
‘A Dutchman in Poland’
ATypI Conference,
Prague
3 October 2004
‘Helvetica war ein fehler’
TypoTage 2004,
Leipzig
12 July 2004
TypoBerlin 2002, Haus der Kulturen der Welt, Berlin
9 May 2002
‘A short
history on decorated typefaces from A to Z’
TybeLab/ATypI,
Royal Academy The Hague
25 October 1996
Booklet
(above right, 52 x 73 mm) designed by Martin Majoor.
‘L’autocritique comme
source de l’inspiration’
Les
Rencontres internationales de Lure,
Lure-en-Provence
August 1996
‘Talent borrows, genius
steels’
Typomania 3,
Centre Georges Pompidou, Parijs
26 January 1996
‘Telefont List and Text’
TybeLab/ATypI,
Barcelona
September 1995
‘De kwestie Y/IJ’
Dag van de Letter,
Museum Scryption, Tilburg
May 1995
‘Over
Telefont en de nieuwe Telefoongids’
Technische Universiteit, Delft
1995
‘Over
Scala en Telefont’
Akademie Minerva,
Groningen
1995
‘On
the new PTT telephone book’
TypeLab/Seybold Conference,
Palais de Congrès, Paris
November 1994
TypeLab/ATypI, San Francisco
11 September 1994
‘Over digitale
typografie’
Akademie
voor Beeldende Kunsten, Rotterdam
1987
