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Sunday, Feb 14 2010, 14:36
Dresden nazifrei
Many thanks to the alliance Dresden nazifrei who spearheaded and organized the protests against yesterday's Nazi demonstation on occasion of the 65th anniversary of the Allied's bombing of Dresden. About 12,000 (numbers vary) citizens peacefully blocked various streets and bridges around Dresden Neustadt station, effectively locking the 5,000 brown scum up at the station upon arrival and for the whole seven hours of their allowed demo. The police didn't let them march for "security concerns", thus playing hand in hand with the protesters, and at 5 p.m. pushed them back into the waiting trains.
Yesterday we showed the world and the Nazis where this ideology leads: exactly nowhere :)
This is not to be confused with the human chain of quiet remembrance of the victims of the bombing organized by Dresden's mayor Orosz with another 10,000 participants on the other bank of the river. Such a passive protest is nice and also very important, but ridiculously ineffective in face of Europe's biggest Nazi march since the end of the war. Hadn't the police locked the bridges, another couples of thousands of citizens would have joined the blockade on our side after the solely symbolic event of the human chain was over. I hope that the effectiveness of this year's active blockade will lead to a change of thinking of our local politicians, to maybe join forces with protesters in the future, instead of criminalising Dresden nazifrei prior to the event.
Thanks again to every participant and also to the police, who could have easily torpedoed the efforts but chose to remain quiet.
Here's a link (in german) that pretty much sums it all up, with more links in the article.
Wednesday, Feb 10 2010, 15:41
Yanone on Typo Berlin 2010 »Passion«
Confirmed: Typo Berlin invited me to speak about the Amman Type Project on this year's issue of Europe's largest design conference. Thank you, Typo.
Get tickets here while they're cheap.
Wednesday, Feb 03 2010, 10:12
Amman Typeface in PAGE
German design mag PAGE issue 03.2010 is out today. It sports a four page article about the making of the Amman Typeface.
Friday, Jan 22 2010, 20:38
iloveyanone on Twitter
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Friday, Nov 06 2009, 12:43
Interview on FontShop's start in 1989
The FontFeed published a really interesting interview with FontShop co-founder Joan Spiekermann about their early days of distributing floppy disks of digital typefaces in 1989. The article also sports a photo of our former guest prof Alexander Branczyk, who already wore his Lederhosen permanently at the time.
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