We’re going to have a hard time keeping track of our senior computer scientist Bram Stein this coming month, as he’s traveling all over the planet to deliver talks at three different conferences.

April 1 in Amsterdam: Fronteers

April kicks off with Fronteers, a day-long conference on web performance in Amsterdam. Bram will be presenting some of his hard-earned takeaways about web font performance. You’ve still got a couple days to grab a ticket.

April 21 in Seattle: WebDevCon

WebDevCon is Amazon’s front-end conference, which takes place in Seattle and is completely free to attend. If Amsterdam is a little out of …

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Master Lettering & Printing Workshop with House Industries

If you’re into lettering, screen printing, Portland, or any combination thereof, there’s a workshop coming up in a month with your name all over it. House Industries is organizing a two-day workshop featuring the expertise of master letterer Ken Barber and master screen printer David Dodde.

The workshop is on April 22 and 23 (a Friday and Saturday) and includes admission to a lecture Friday evening from the House Industries art director Andy Cruz. The workshop is happening during Design Week Portland — so it’s a great time to be there and get immersed in the city’s unique design culture.

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Strengthening the fabric of digital communications: Support the Unicode Consortium

Strengthening the fabric of digital communications: Support the Unicode Consortium

Meet the Unicode Consortium. Adobe has maintained a close relationship with this organization since shortly after its foundation in 1991. Ken Lunde has been involved with the Unicode Technical Committee for the past twenty years, and as of this year I’ve had the honor of joining the consortium’s board of directors. We’re invested in the work they do, and we’ve made a commitment to continue supporting them. You can, too, with their Adopt-A-Character campaign.

Unicode is the world’s most inclusive character set, an encoding system that endeavors to support literally every character used in human communication around the entire planet, so that …

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