Design Friends

Our new season is just around the corner 😍
6 talks. 1 screening. Here we go!
Swipe to meet Season 18's speakers. 🙌
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All our talks take place at Rotondes:
📆 07/10/2026 👉 Robert Bronwasser on Industrial Design
📆 11/11/2026 👉 Stefanie Posavec on Data Design
📆 13/01/2027 👉 Yorgo Tloupas on Editorial & Brand Design
📆 10/03/2027 👉 Christopher Bauder on Light Design
📆 28/04/2027 👉 Tracey Neuls on Footwear Design
📆 09/06/2027 👉 Naíma Almeida on Graphic Design

Screening 🎬 at Café de la Place
📆 24/02/2027 👉 Identity: A Czech Graphic Design Love Story
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📌 Details: designfriends.lu/events
📌 Become a member: designfriends.lu/membership

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Villmols merci Pe’l Schlechter - für die zahlreichen Besuche bei unseren Konferenzen, für die inspirierende Präsentation im Café de la Place 2017 und für die bleibenden Erinnerungsstücke in unseren Archiven. 🖤

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On the night of the event, you'll receive all 6 catalogues from this season (Season 17)* with every new or renewed membership. 📚✨
Your renewal will also entitle you to receive the catalogues from our next season. 💛 *Subject to availability of stock. 😍
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👉 Membership details available on www.designfriends.lu
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See you at Rotondes for the final conference of Season 17, on 17/06/2026, with Burrowlab and their talk "Developing a Parametric Type System". 🔤✨

Discover how browser-based tools, parameters and experimentation are reshaping the future of type design through an innovative approach that moves beyond traditional outlines.
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👉 Want to know more about the event? Head over to our website: https://www.designfriends.lu/events/burrowlab
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ℹ️ All our talks are free (whether you're a member or not), held in English, at ROTONDES in Luxembourg-Bonnevoie.
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Curious about the future of typography? 🧪 Burrowlab blends geometry, computation and optical refinement to create typefaces that evolve through data and experimentation. Join us 📆 17 June 2026, 18:30 — Rotondes.
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👉 More details: https://www.designfriends.lu/events/burrowlab

🎛️ Sliders instead of Bézier curves. Logic instead of outlines. Philipp Koller presents Burrowlab, a browser-based tool that reimagines type design through dynamic parameters and real-time generation. 📅 17 June 2026, 18:30 — Rotondes.
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👉 More details: https://www.designfriends.lu/events/burrowlab
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ℹ️ Burrowlab is a browser-based, parametric type design tool. In a world where everything wants to be clean and polished, it is interested in the half-finished, the glitchy, the too weird to use but too beautiful to ignore, at the same time.By leaning into the tool’s unintended quirks and extremes, you’re not just crafting fonts; you’re exploring asemic typography—where letterforms dissolve into ambiguous yet intentional glyphs that tease the boundaries of language.
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🫶 All our talks are for free (whether you are a member or not), held in English, at the ROTONDES in Luxembourg-Bonnevoie.
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💛 Become a member: https://www.designfriends.lu/membership
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From mathematical precision to beautiful imperfections 💠, Burrowlab challenges the traditional process of type design. Discover how fonts can become living systems at Rotondes, 📆 17 June 2026, 18:30.
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👉 More details: https://www.designfriends.lu/events/burrowlab
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ℹ️ Burrowlab is a browser-based, parametric type design tool that transforms the way typefaces are made — replacing outlines with a dynamic system of sliders and logic. It merges mathematical structure with optical nuance, embracing glitches, variations, and living, asemic letterforms in a process rooted in play, not perfection.
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🫶 All our talks are for free (whether you are a member or not), held in English, at the ROTONDES in Luxembourg-Bonnevoie.
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💛 Become a member: https://www.designfriends.lu/membership
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From minimalist compositions to richly layered narratives - that was Eiko Ojala's talk at Rotondes last week. 🔥 A fascinating look at the balance between simplicity and complexity. ⚖️
📸 Photos: Dan Thuy