Keith Chi-Hang Tam
Keith Chi-hang Tam
Typography
Hong Kong
12–16 September 2007
Faculty of Arts and Architecture, University of Brighton
My presentation, Sunday 16 September 13:15–14:05:
Typographic bilingualism: a framework for the co-existence of Chinese and English texts
7/30/2007 07:23:00 AM (0) comments
I was at the International Conference on Typography and Visual Communication in Thessaloniki last month. I ran an italic calligraphy workshop with my Type Initiative partner Michail Semoglou and gave a presentation titled ‘Teaching typography: perspectives & approaches’ where I discussed typography pedagogy and showned student work from the Hong Kong Polytechnic University and the Emily Carr Institute in Canada. Here are some photos..One of the typography projects I designed at the Hong Kong Polytechnic University is featured on James Craig’s site Designing with Type.
Here are some images of bilingual public signage and typographic design in Hong Kong. More to come later.
7/18/2007 09:40:00 PM (0) comments
Several new things:1 Digital typography: a primer (247K)
2 Baseline grid (107K)
3 My design pedagogy (8.31MB)
4 My design work (6.98MB)
10/10/2006 10:22:00 AM (0) comments
Just married!Keith Chi-hang Tam & Cherry Jean Stuart Chao
1 June 2006, Vancouver BC, Canada
6/03/2006 05:30:00 AM (0) comments
Village type co-op opens its doors today! Arrival is finally available for purchase and download exclusively at Village. Along with my partner and friend Michail Semoglou we’re launching our very own type label, Type Initiative, who’s one of the nine (soon to be twelve) members of Village.Village is a type co-op; the union of nine (soon to be twelve) young type foundries who have decided to go it alone, together. vllg.com is the information channel and boutique storefront for this group of equals.
The members of our group hail from Canada, Finland, Germany, Greece, Italy, The Netherlands, Portugal, the UK, and the US. We are Feliciano Type Foundry, Joshua Darden, Karsten Luecke Type Foundry, Lux Typographics, Orange Italic, Thirstype, Type Initiative, Underware, and Village. Village is based in New York City.
For a few years we’ve been thinking about a “type designers union”, a loose gathering of smart friends. We would share a distribution channel and help introduce each other to the wider design world. We did this in a limited way at Thirstype, but recently renewed our focus on this project.
By coming together we benefit from the innovative website developed by Takashi Okamoto of mudCorp, featuring version 1.1 of the mudTyper, the revolutionary live type testing tool.
New releases:
Arrival from Keith Chi-hang Tam of Type Initiative. This sans serif font was designed for wayfinding, and is incredibly sturdy, clear, and legible. Litteratra from Karsten Luecke Type Foundry. An OpenType feat, this TDC2-winning design from 2001 has been redrawn and expanded: the 1900+ character glyphset has to be seen to be believed. Crank 8 by Greg Lindy & Henk Elenga for Lux Typographics. Nearly a decade in the making, this contemporary and very personal sans serif has been used exclusively for the last year by Esquire magazine.
Upcoming releases:
Omnes by Joshua Darden. A multi-weight gestural sans serif with immese joie-de-vivre. Local Gothic by Christian Schwartz of Orange Italic. The first self-published font from the great Mr Schwartz. As seen in design for TypeCon 2005.
7/14/2005 11:51:00 AM (0) comments
My travel pictures – Japan, Hong Kong, China.
7/05/2005 08:24:00 AM (0) comments
Somthing quite radical appeared on the front page of one of Canada’s national newspapers this past Saturday – and I’m glad I was part of it. The Globe and Mail put out a special edition on China and asked me to design some Chinese lettering for the front page. The result was striking. The Chinese characters read: Ambitious, Powerful, Restless... Get Ready for China’s Century. This weekend edition sold out in Greater Vancouver on Saturday alone. And here’s one of the emails the paper received: “To live on this planet for almost 70 years and finally witness one of the most spectacular front pages in my lifetime, makes me want to tell everyone where I was when I first saw it.” — J. Kerr, Vancouver
10/26/2004 12:54:00 AM (0) comments
www.keithtamdesign.com is no longer active. Please email me here from now on. Thanks.8/23/2004 11:32:00 PM (0) comments
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