Schedule
Schedule of events during the conference ‘Typography day 2013' :
Thursday 7th to Saturday 9th of March 2013
at DOD, IIT Guwahati
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Day one
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Day two
| Day 2 (8th March 2013) Venue: DOD, IIT Guwahati |
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| 7.30 - 9.00 | Breakfast & Registration | |
| 9.00 - 10.00 | Inauguration | |
| Welcome Address | ||
| Prof. D. Udaya kumar,DoD, IIT Guwahati | ||
| About Design program at DoD | ||
| Prof. Debkumar Chakrabarti, Head, DoD, IIT Guwahati | ||
| 10.00 - 10.15 | Tea | |
| 10.15 - 11.00 | Keynote address 1 | |
| Prof. Kok Cheow Yeoh, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore | ||
| Session 1 (Each presenter: 20 min + 5 min Q&A ) | ||
| 11.00 – 11.25 | Applying Arabic Kashida on Latin Letters in Display Typography | |
| Antoine Abi Aad , Académie Libanaise des Beaux Arts, Lebanon | ||
| 11.25 – 11.50 | World Signs: Symbols without meaning | |
| Ralph Klewitz, Swinburne University of Technology, Malaysia | ||
| 11.50 – 12.15 | Coupling bilingual typefaces | |
| Randa Abdel Baki, Lebanese American University, Lebanon | ||
| 12.15 – 12.30 | Exhibition: From hot metal to open type | |
| Curated by Fiona Ross & Vaibhav Singh, University of Reading | ||
| 12.30 – 13.45 | Lunch | |
| 13.45 – 14.30 | Keynote Address 2 |
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| Prof. Gerry Leonidas, University of Reading, UK | ||
| Session 2 (Each presenter: 20 min + 5 min Q&A ) | ||
| 14.30 – 14.55 | Issues with Devanagari Display Type | |
| Sarang Kulkarni, WhiteCrow Designs, Mumbai | ||
| 14.55 – 15.20 | Cultural stereotypes visualised by display fonts Using the example of "bamboo fonts" |
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| Mariko Takagi, Academy of Visual Arts, Hong Kong, Baptist University, Hong Kong |
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| 15.20 – 15.45 | Environmental Typography of Orissa in Cultural Context - An insight and Visual Perception. |
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| Paresh Choudhury, Maeer's MIT Institute of Design, Pune |
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| 15.45 - 16.00 | Tea Break + Poster viewing | |
| Session 3 (Each presenter: 20 min + 5 min Q&A ) | ||
| 16.00 – 16.25 | Display Typography of House Names in Mumbai's Residential Buildings: A Semiotic Intervention | |
| Mustansir Dalvi, Sir JJ College of Arch. & Nanki Nath , IDC, IIT Bombay, Mumbai | ||
| 16.25 – 16.50 | Type Dance | |
| Manoj Neel, Ajai Raghav, Jolly Joseph & Orion Jose, Infosys, Bangalore |
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| 17.00 - 17.15 | The Monotype Group: passion for (Indic) Type. | |
| Industry Talk 1: Jörg Schweinsberg, Monotype | ||
| 17.15 - 17.30 | Fontlab for type design | |
| Industry Talk 2: Ted Harrison, Fontlab | ||
Day three
| Day 3 (9th March 2013) Venue: DOD, IIT Guwahati |
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| 7.30 - 9.00 | Breakfast | |
| 9.00 - 9.45 | Keynote address 3 | |
| Prof. Mary C Dyson, University of Reading, UK | ||
| Session 4 (Each presenter: 20 min + 5 min Q&A ) | ||
| 9.45 - 10.10 | Designing a typeface for a signage system: a case study | |
| Wolfgang Homola, Independent Designer, Vienna, Austria | ||
| 10.10 – 10.35 | The future of type design is coming closer | |
| Adam Twardoch, Fontlab Ltd, Germany | ||
| 10.35 – 11.00 | Tea Break + Poster viewing | |
| Session 5 (Each presenter: 15 min + 5 min Q&A ) | ||
| 11.00 – 11.20 | Pragmatic and Syntactic trends in Display Typography on the shop signs of Abdul Rehman Street, Mumbai | |
| Nanki Nath & Ravi Poovaiah, IDC, IIT Bombay, Mumbai | ||
| 11.20 – 11.40 | Politics by the roadside: Lettering in Tamil political party graffiti | |
| Smruthi Bala Kannan, IIT Madras, Chennai | ||
| 11.40 – 12.00 | Painters, a Project on the culture of Gujarati Street Painters | |
| Manoj Naorem , NID, Paldi, Ahmedabad | ||
| 12.00 – 12.30 | Development of a new Gurmukhi typeface based on manuscript calligraphy | |
| Industry Talk 3: Paul Hunt, Adobe Type Team | ||
| 12.30 - 13.45 | Lunch | |
| Session 6 (Each presenter: 20 min + 5 min Q&A ) | ||
| 13.45 – 14.10 | Anatomy of a New Letter: A Story of a Design Competition for the Currency Sign of Turkish Lira | |
| Humanur Bagli & Koray Gelmez, Istanbul Technical University, Department of Industrial Product Design, Turkey | ||
| 14.10 – 14.35 | Infected Mushrooms or Diamond Quarry/Graffiti writing and display type | |
| Mahmood Mazaheri Tari, Formino Design, Iran | ||
| 14.35 – 15.00 | Container as Content | |
| Jayagovindan Menon, D J Academy of Design, Coimbatore | ||
| 15.00 - 15.15 | Tea Break | |
| Session 7 (Each presenter: 15 min + 5 min Q&A ) | ||
| 15.15 – 15.35 | Mental workload and time taken with varying paragraph size and number of columns during onscreen reading | |
| Huzefa Kanchwala, Department of Design, IIT Guwahati, Guwahati | ||
| 15.35 – 15.55 | The Artist Fonts | |
| Nehal Lodha, Rachana Sansad College of Applied Art and Craft, Mumbai | ||
| 15.55 – 16.15 | Khubsurat Font | |
| Ishita Panchal, Rachana Sansad College of Applied Art and Craft , Mumbai | ||
| 16.15 – 16.35 | Behold: The Vanishing Lettering Designs | |
| Apoorva Lall, Amity School of Fine Art, Amity University, Noida | ||
| 16.35 - 17.15 | Awards for poster competition | |
| 17.15 - 18.00 | Closing session | |