Schedule
Schedule of events during the conference ‘Typography day 2012' :
Thursday 1st to Saturday 3rd of March 2012
at IDC, IIT Bombay
Day one
| Day 1 (1st March 2012) – Workshops Venue: IDC, IIT Bombay |
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| 8.30 – 9.30 | Registration | |
| 9.30 – 9.45 | Welcome and lighting the Diya | |
| 10.00 – 5.00 | Workshops for Design Students * these workshops require the use of laptop |
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| Track 1 | Calligraphy and Publication Design’ | |
| IDC Circle | Achyut Palav, Achyut Palav School of Calligraphy, Navi Mumbai | |
| Track 2 | ‘Book Making’ |
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| IxD Class,IDC | Aditi Babel, Independent Book Designer, Jaipur | |
| Track 3 VMCC Hall 1 |
'Bilingual Typography as a Marketing Tool' - Prof. Iko Avital, IIT Guwahati | |
| Track 4 | 'Edutainment: Letterform Play' | |
| VMCC Hall 2 | Prof. Noni Avital, IIT Guwahati | |
| Track 5 | ‘Font Design for Indian Languages’ | |
| Conference 2,IDC | Manoj Gopinath, C Dac, Pune, Mumbai | |
| Track 6 | ‘Experiments with letterforms in3D’ | |
| Innovation Lab,IDC | Sarang Kulkarni, WhiteCrow Design, Mumbai | |
| Track 7 Jr VC Class,IDC |
'Generation of new visual concepts in Type Designing through Calligraphy' Prof. Santosh Kshirsagar, Sir J.J Institute of Applied Arts |
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| Track 8 | ‘Publication design and Typography’ | |
| Conference 1,IDC | Prof. G V Sreekumar, IDC IIT Bombay and Dr. Girish Dalvi, Yahoo India |
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| Track 9 | ‘Calendar Design’ | |
| VMCC Hall 3 | Tarun Deep Girdher and Suresh Immanuel, NID, India | |
| Track 10 VMCC Hall 4 |
‘Make Your First Font - getting started in Digital typography’ * Ted Harisson, President, FontLab |
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| Track 11 | ‘Magazine Design’ * | |
| VMCC Hall 5 | Prof. Uday Kumar, IIT Guwahati and Nirmal Biswas,Independent Designer | |
| 1.00 – 2.30 | Lunch | |
| 5.00 – 7.30 | Meet on Research in Typography for Research Scholars | |
| (5.00 – 6.00) Presentations on ‘Typographic Research’ by research scholars (6.00 – 7.30) Group Discussions on Future Directions for Research in Typography |
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Day two
| Day 2 (2nd March 2012) – Morning Session Venue: VMCC Main Conference Hall, IIT Bombay |
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| 8.30 – 9.00 | Tea and Registration | |
| 9.00 – 9.15 | Welcome Address Prof Ravi Poovaiah and Prof G V Sreekumar, IDC IIT Bombay |
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| 9.15 – 10.00 | Keynote Address 1 Prof. R. K. Joshi Memorial Lecture Vision & the Visual Ken Botnick, Professor of Art, Director Kranzberg Book Studio, Washington University, USA |
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| 10.00 – 10.30 | Tea and networking | |
| Session 1 | Typography & Type Design Chairman: Prof. Mahendra Patel
Emeritus Professor, NID |
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| 10.30 – 10.50 | Challenges in multilingual type design David Brezina, Rosetta Type Foundry, UK |
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| 10.55 – 11.15 | Designing a Devanagari text font for newspaper use Yashodeep Gholap, Mumbai |
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| 11.20 – 11.40 | Developing fonts for Indian scripts Paul D. Hunt, Adobe, USA |
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| 11.40 – 11.55 | Discussion & QA | |
| Session 2 | Typography & Expression Chairman: Prof. Sudhakar Nadkarni - Dean, Werlingkar Management Institute, Mumbai |
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| 12.00 – 12.20 | Perplexing type families and glyph counts: A case study of a Devanagari+Latin typeface Dr. Girish Dalvi, Researcher, Yahoo India |
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| 12.25 – 12.45 | Devnagari-Latin ambigrams Pallavi Sudhanshu Apte, India |
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| 12.45 – 1.00 | Discussion & QA | |
| 1.00 – 02.30 | Lunch | |
| Day 2 (2nd March 2012) – Afternoon Session Venue: VMCC Main Conference Hall, IIT Bombay |
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| Vision Address | Challenges faced in designing low-cost | |
| 2.30 – 3.15 | publications for the bottom of the pyramid, mostly in the local scripts Tarun Deep Girdher, Associate Senior Faculty, Graphic Design, NID, India |
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| Session 3 | Typography & Identity Chairman: Sudharshan Dheer Graphic Communication Concepts, Mumbai |
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| 3.15 – 3.35 | Investigating Handwriting practice manuals in currant scenario Prof Santosh Kshirsagar, Sir J.J. Institute of Applied Arts, India |
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| 3.35 – 3.55 | Typocraft: Creating an Indian Typographic Identity Ishan Khosla,Ishan Khosla Design,New Delhi |
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| 3.55 – 4.15 | Typography as a Graphic Design within Official (Governmental) Valuables – Case Study of the Botswana’s new set of Bank-notes
Zoran Markovic, University of Botswana, Gaborone, Botswana |
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| 4.15 – 4.30 | Discussion & QA | |
| 4.30 – 5.00 | Tea and networking | |
| Session 4 | Doctoral Researcher Presentations Chairman: Professor Iko Avital Department of Design, IIT Guwahati |
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| 5.00 – 5.15 | Ariyaka, the early typeface leads modern industrialization of letterpress printing in Thailand Chitchai Kuandachakupt, Ph. D Researcher, Kyoto Institute of Technology, Japan |
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| 5.15 – 5.30 | Usage of Nasta’liq in the Modern Publications Farzan Kermaninejad, Ph. D Researcher, Industrial Design Centre, IIT Bombay |
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| 5.30 – 5.45 | The experience expansion of typography utilizing the five senses Hoonsik Yoo, Ph. D Researcher, Interaction Design Lab., Graduate School of Techno Design, Seoul, Korea |
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| 5.45 – 6.00 | Making publication grids flexible Prasad Bokil, Ph. D Researcher, Industrial Design Centre, IIT Bombay |
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| 6.00 – 6.15 | Discussion & QA | |
| Session 5 | Industry Session | |
| 6.16 – 6.45 | Tools for the Construction of Indic Fonts Ted Harisson, President, Fontlab, USA - a presentation by Font Lab |
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Day three
| Day 3 (3rd March 2012) – Morning Session Venue: VMCC Main Conference Hall, IIT Bombay |
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| 8.30 – 9.15 | Tea | |
| 9.15 – 10.00 | Keynote Address 2 - The Weekly News Magazine - Dressing up a Dog’s Dinner Bishwadeep Moitra, Executive Editor, Outlook, New Delhi | |
| 10.00 – 10.30 | Tea and networking | |
| Session 6 | Typography & Book Design Chairman:Prof. Vikas Satwalekar Emeritus Professor and Ex-Director, NID |
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| 10.30 – 10.50 | Book Design – the showcase field in the visual communication. An international review Uta Schneider, Stiftung Buchkunst, Frankfurt, Germany |
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| 10.50 – 11.10 | Teaching Maya to the Next Generation children’s publication design in a multilingual context Denielle Emans, Zayed university, Dubai, United Arab Emirates |
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| 11.10 – 11.30 | Picturing words: expressive typography & story-telling in picture books Rathna Ramanathan, Central Saint Martins College of Art and Design, London, UK |
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| 11.30 – 11.45 | Discussion & QA | |
| Session 7 | Typography & Local Scripts Chairman: Prof. Ranjana Dani MEER’s MIT Institute of Design, Pune |
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| 11.45 – 12.05 | Abilities of Persian Typefaces & Persian Calligraphy In Stencil Type Design Mahmood MazaheriTari, Tehran, Iran | |
| 12.05 – 12.25 | Tending to the Inheritance of Tulu Script Vaishnavi Murthy, Bangalore | |
| 12.25 – 12.45 | The use of eye-tracker technology to evaluate typefaces, greek fonts and publication design for screen Evripides Zantides, Cyprus University of Technology, Cyprus |
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| 12.45 – 1.00 | Discussion & QA | |
| 1.00 – 02.30 | Lunch | |
| Day 3 (3rd March 2012) – Afternoon Session Venue: VMCC Main Conference Hall, IIT Bombay |
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| Session 8 | Design Projects Chairman: Professor Suresh Immanuel Faculty, NID |
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| 2.30 – 2.45 | ONOMATOPOIEA With the comics Khushbu Shashikant Sangoi, Sir J.J. Institute of, Applied Arts, Mumbai |
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| 2.45 – 3.00 | My Experiments with Type: Devanagari typeface design at Linotype
Kimya Gandhi, Alumnus, IDC, IIT Bombay |
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| 3.00 – 3.15 | Notes for studies on typography and publication design in indigenous (native) languages of Brazil Kollontai Cossich Diniz, University of Sao Paulo, Sao Paulo, Brazil |
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| 3.15 – 3.45 | Typeface Design Anukriti Verma and Aman Rupesh Xaxa, M Des VC student, IDC, IIT Bombay |
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| 3.45 – 4.00 | Discussion & QA | |
| 4.00 – 4.30 | Tea and networking | |
| Session 9 | Typography & Culture Chairman: Dr. Ajanta Sen, Director, Solar Project, India |
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| 4.30 – 4.50 | Typographic Culture of Hong Kong Mariko Takagi, Hong Kong Baptist University, Kowloon, Hong Kong |
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| 4.50 – 5.10 | The Craft of Bookmaking Aditi Babel, Independent Book Designer, Jaipur |
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| 5.10 – 5.25 | Discussion & QA | |
| Vision Address 5.30 – 6.15 |
Making good business sense out of Typography Sandeep Bomble, Palasha creative House, Mumbai |
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| Session 10 6.15 – 6.30 |
Closing Session for the seminar Awards + Concluding remarks |
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