Introduction

‘Typography Day 2009’ will be held on Monday, February 23 and Tuesday February 24 at the MAEER's MIT Institute of Design, Pune.

The event will include a seminar which will be devoted to addressing issues faced by type designers, type users and type educators. The program will feature presentations, along with a whole day of workshops dedicated to typography and calligraphy. The event has been envisaged to provide an opportunity to interact with experts working in the field of typography.

The event is planned over two days,

Day 1: Seminar focusing on ‘Typography and New Media’
Day 2: Workshop on Typography/Calligraphy

‘Typography day 2009’ is being organized by the MAEER's MIT Institute of Design, Pune and Industrial Design Centre (IDC) at the Indian Institute of Technology Bombay (IIT Bombay) along with India Design Association (InDeAs).

Themes

The seminar on 23rd February will focus on:

  1. Typography in New Media
  2. Experimental Typography
  3. Innovation in Indian Language Typography
  4. Display Typography for Emerging Devices
  5. Research in Typography