Schedule

Schedule of events during the conference 'Typography day 2014' :
Day one- Friday 28th February , Day two- Saturday 1st March, and Day three- Sunday 2nd March 2014 at SID, Pune

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Day one

Day 1 (28th February 2014) – Workshops Venue: Symbiosis Institute of Design, Pune       7.30 – 9.30   Tea & Registration       9.30 – 9.45   Welcome address and briefing by Prof. Manohar Desai, SID, Pune 10.00 – 1.00 & 2.30 – 5.30   Workshops for Design Students       Lunch-break: 1.00 – 2.30             # Workshop Tracks and Instructors * these workshops require the use of laptop   Track 1   Constructing Letterforms     Prof. Manohar Desai, Symbiosis Institute of Design, Pune, India       Track 2   Typifying lettering     Paul Hunt, Adobe Systems, USA       Track 3   Design a Font in One Day Ted Harisson, President, FontLab, USA       Track 4   Prayog     Prof. Santosh Kshirsagar, Sir J.J. Institute of Applied Arts, Mumbai, India       Track 5   Tools and Techniques     Achyut Palav, Achyut Palav School of Calligraphy, Navi Mumbai       Track 6   Designing Type in a Multi-script Country     Sarang Kulkarni, Noopur Datye, Ek Type and Prof. Girish Dalvi, Industrial design Centre, IIT Bombay, India       Track 7   Typographic Expression in India Prof. Mahendra Patel, Faculty member, Symbiosis Institute of Design, Pune, India and Prof. Ranjana Dani, HOD, Communication Design, MITID, Pune, India       Track 8   Designing Logotype in Regional Script     Prof. Udaya Kumar Dharmalingam, Department of Design IIT Guwahati, India       Track 9   Basic Design Teaching     Prof. Mandar Rane, Industrial Design Centre, IIT Bombay, india And Omkar Shende, Font designer, India       Track 10   3D Fonts     Prof. Pratibha Wagh, Ex-faculty, L.S.Raheja School of Arts, Mumbai, India and Prof. Samip Sawant, Mumbai Kala Maha Vidyalay, Mumbai, India       Track 11   Letterpress Light Workshop     Prof. Jeff Pulaski, Wichita State University, Kansas, USA, and Prof. Joey Hannaford, University of West Georgia, Georgia, USA and Rakhi Charwad       Track 12   No Waste - A Lettering / Typography Workshop     Manasi Shekhar Keni       Track 13   Experimental Calligraphy     Prof. Vinod Mahabale and Prof. Prakash Kharkar       Track 14   Vedakshare     Ram Kasture       Track 15   Character Designing     Girish Charwad       5.30 – 6.00   Vote of Thanks + Tea

Day two

Day 2 (1st March 2014) Venue: Auditorium, SID, Pune       7.30 – 9.00   Tea and Registration       9.00 - 9.45   Inauguration           Welcome Address by     Prof. Manohar Desai, SID Pune and Prof. Ravi Poovaiah/Prof. G V Sreekumar, IDC, IIT Bombay           About SID by     Prof. Vinay Mundeda, Director, Symbiosis Institute of Design, Pune       9.45 – 10.30   Keynote Address 1     Prof. R. K. Joshi Memorial Lecture Tribal Languages and Oral Traditions (working title) Prof. Ganesh N. Devy, Founder and Director of the Tribal Academy at Tejgadh, Gujarat, India       10.30 – 11.00   Tea and networking             Session 1 (Experiments and Explorations ) Session Chairman: Sudharshan Dheer, Graphic Communication Concepts, Mumbai, India 11.00 – 11.20   Sensory experiences in Typography     Prof. Meaghan Dee, Virginia Tech, USA and Prof. Cassie Hester, University of West Georgia, USA       11.20 – 11.40   From within it, from outside it and from above it     Deshna Mehta, Co-founder, Anugraha, Mumbai, India       11.40 – 11.55   Discussion & QA             Session 2 (Cross-cultural Typography ) Session Chairman: Sujit Patwardhan Mudra Graphics, Pune, India 12.00 – 12.20   Hawking Gawking in Singapore     Prof. Kok Cheow Yeoh, Wee Kim Wee School of Communication and Information, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore       12.20 – 12.40   SHAKSHUKA: From Graffiti Vandalism to Aestheticism by Organic Typo Design     Prof. Iko Avital and Researchers Alon Weiss and Yaronimus, MedLab, Shamoon College of Engineering, Israel       12.40 – 12.55   Discussion & QA       1.00 – 02.30   Poster Sessions + Lunch       Vision Address     2.30 – 3.15   Merging the Alphabet and Chinese characters     Birk Marcus Hansen, Type designer, Denmark             Session 3 (Typography & Typeface Design ) Session Chairman: Prof. Ranjana Dani, Professor, MIT Institute of Design, Pune, India 3.15 – 3.35   Development of a typeface from the handwritten Sinhala plakkatens of Sri Lanka     Prof. Sumanthri Samarawickrama, University of Moratuwa, Sri Lanka       3.35 – 3.55   Reviving Modi Script     Prof. Rajendra Bhimraoji Thakre, MIT Institute of Design, Pune, India       3.55 – 4.15   Matilda: A Typeface for Children with Low Vision     Prof. Ann Bessemans, Media Arts Design Faculty, Hasselt, Belgium       4.15 – 4.30   Discussion & QA       4.30 – 5.00   Tea and networking             Session 4 (Typography& Identity) Session Chairman: Prof. D. Udaya kumar, Department of Design, IIT Guwahati, India 5.00 – 5.20   Display Type Expressions: The Cultural underpinnings of the Scripts from two Royal Cities of India     G. Shashidhar Reddy, Independent Designer, India and Nanki Nath, Research Scholar, IIT Bombay, India       5.20 – 5.40   Bitmap Type three Centuries before Digital Technology!! Typography on Persian Carpets     Mahmood Mazaheri Tari, Formino Design, Iran       5.40 – 5.55   Discussion & QA             Session 5 (Industry Projects) Session Chairman: Prof. Girish Dalvi, Industrial Design Centre, IIT Bombay, India 6.00 – 6.30   The Many Modes of Malayalam Script     Paul Hunt, Adobe Type Team, USA       Session 6 (Meet on Research in Typography for Research Scholars) 6.30 – 7.30   Presentations on 'Typographic Research' by research scholars And Group Discussions on Future Directions for Research in Typography

Day three

Day 3 (2nd March 2014) Venue: Auditorium, SID, Pune
8.30 – 9.00		Tea
9.00 – 9.45		Keynote Address 2
		Fundamentals of typography - Student projects in Typography and Culture
		Prof. James Craig, Designer, Author and Teacher, USA
Session 7 (Typography & Details )
Session Chairman: Prof. Mahendra Patel Faculty member, Symbiosis Institute of Design, Pune, India
9.45 – 10.05		The Ruq'ah style and its role in Arabic typography
		Gunnar Vilhjalmsson, Senior Type Designer, Monotype, UK
10.05 – 10.25		Typography: a 'punctuated' interpretation
		Jayagovindan Menon, Head, Communiation Design, D J Academy of Design, Coimbatore, India
10.25 – 10.45		Śūnyatā Toolbox: From Spaceless Typography to Product Design
		Prof. Iko Avital, and Researchers Zuk Turbovitch and Charu Monga, SCE, Shamoon College of Engineering, Israel, School of Design Arts, DU-Delhi University, India
10.45 – 11.00		Discussion & QA
11.00 – 11.30		Tea and networking
Session 8 (Typography & Local Context)
Session Chairman: Prof. Santosh Kshirsagar, Sir J.J. Institute of Applied Arts, Mumbai, India
11.30 – 11.50		Concerns in Typography and Culture – A case-study based on PTG (Primitive Tribal Groups) Kota from the Nilgiris
		Prof. Suniti S. Vadalkar, Foundation for Liberal And management Education (FLAME), Pune, India
11.50 – 12.10		Gunjala Gondi Script - A new tracing
		S. Sridhara Murthy, Typographer and Guest Faculty, National Institute of Fashion Technology, Hyderabad, India
12.10 – 12.30		Towards a holistic Indic Font design software: Observations from the study of the Devanāgarī font design proces
		Yashodeep Gholap, Font Designer, Ted Harrison, President and Adam Twardoch, Product and Marketing Manager, Fontlab, Usa and India
12.30 – 12.50		Type Camp India: Pluralism in Design Education
		Dr. Shelley Gruendler, Founding Director of Type Camp International, Canada
12.50 – 1.05		Discussion & QA
1.05 – 02.30		Poster Sessions + Lunch
Session 9 (Typography& Design Projects)
Session Chairman: Dr. Ajanta Sen, Director, Solar Project, India
2.30 – 2.45		Title design in Hindi & Bengali film posters
		Mohammad Shahid and Prof. D. Udaya Kumar, Indian Institute of Technology Guwahati, India
2.45 – 3.00		Lankan Arts In A Font
		Chethya Munasinghe, AOD International Design Campus, Sri Lanka
3.00 – 3.15		Technique for optimization of font color in subtitling of modern media
		Dhvanil Patel and Ojas Deshpande, Indian Institute of Technology Guwahati, India
3.15 – 3.30		‘Babuchak’ – Gujarati Display Font
		Jalpa Shah, Rachana Sansad College of Applied Arts, Bombay, India,
3.30 – 3.45		Other-Letter; A hybrid of Sinhala and Tamil Scripts
		Pathum Egodawatta, Sri Lanka
3.45 – 4.00		Discussion & QA
4.00– 4.30		Tea and networking
Vision Address		Experiences in Typography (working title)
4.30– 5.15		Aurobind Patel, Designer and Typographer, India
Closing Session for the seminar
5.15– 5.45		Awards + Concluding remarks