The TypoLab of the Visual Communication department of HEAD - Geneva, invites you to the online conference: Early Access to the Dinamo Darkroom by the duo of type designers and managers of the Dinamo foundry, Fabian Harb and Johannes Breyer.

Dinamo will talk about their variable way of collaborating with creatives across disciplines and figuring/defining/optimising a practice allowing for both, self initiated and commercial work. The keynote will contain personal reflections, more than 74 colour images and some rare pie charts.

Dinamo is a Swiss type design agency offering retail and bespoke typefaces, design software, research, and consultancy. Founded in Basel we operate via a network of satellite members across the globe.Members of Dinamo are visiting teachers at various art academies and have been invited to give workshops and lectures at an international roster of educational institutions. In 2017, Dinamo was awarded the Swiss Design Award by the Swiss Federal Office of Culture. In 2018, the foundry’s co-founders Johannes Breyer and Fabian Harb became members of the AGI. Dinamo has released more than 20 typeface families to date, and continues to oscillate between commercial and cultural projects.

Fabian Harb is originally from the mountainous Appenzell Ausserrhoden in Switzerland, but currently lives in Basel. He splits his days between being involved with the co-running of Dinamo (80% of his time) and running after his five year old son (20% of his time). Ever since studying at the Basel School of Design, and interning at Claudiabasel and Studio Laurenz Brunner, Fabian has had a love for archives, second-hand book stores, and looking at the past with fresh eyes to propel historical concerns into the present.

Johannes Breyer was born to a German father and Chilean mother. After studying at the University of the Arts in Zurich and the Gerrit Rietveld Academie in Amsterdam—and a stint working at the design studio NORM—he moved to Berlin. Suddenly, he won the “Most Beautiful Book in the World” prize, after which he forced himself to retire from graphic design and co-founded Dinamo. Johannes is involved in the day-to-day oversight of the foundry, its people and many sprawling tentacles.