Schedule

Schedule of events during the International Conference
'Typography Day 2017' :
23rd to 26th February, 2017
at Department of Integrated Design, University of Moratuwa, Sri Lanka
with support from InDeAs and Aksharaya


The schedule is as follows: . . . . . . . . . . .

Day One

Day 1 (23rd February 2017) – Workshops
Venue: University of Moratuwa, Sri Lanka

8.00 – 9.00
Registration  and Tea

9.00 – 12.00

Workshop Session One


12.00 – 1.30

Lunch


1.30 – 4.30
Workshop Session Two

4.30 – 6.00
Tea and Workshop Output Presentations and Display

Workshops Tracks

Track 1
'Type and Graphics Creative Combinetrics' *
Prof. Ravi Poovaiah, Faculty, Industrial Design Centre, IIT Bombay and
Dr. Ajanta Sen, Director, Solar Project, India
(Require :Laptop with Adobe InDesign/Illustrator/Photoshop or equivalent)

Track 2
'Arabic lettering & Islamic patterns' *
Azza Alameddine, Independent designer

Track 3
'Typography, Story Telling, Sound and Emotion' *
Prof. Savita Saraf, Principal, and
Ms. Mansi Keni Assistant Professor,
at Rachana Sansad College of Applied Art & Craft Prabhadevi, Mumbai
(Require :Laptop with illustrator or coreldraw)

Track 4
'Creating custom logotypes for identity design' *
Sarang Kulkarni, Ek Type/Graphic designer, Mumbai and
Noopur Datye, Whitecrow Design, Mumbai

Track 5
'Typographic gif. Animations' *
Rikke Hassen,
Head of Design hojskolen, Denmark
(Require :Laptop with Adobe photoshop)

Track 6
'Tact Type'
Ms. Ruchi Shah, Type designer and Illustrator and
Ms. Pradnya Naik, Independant Designer, India

Track 7
'Introduction to OpenType and OTMaster' *
Pria Ravichandran, Consultant, URW++, Germany and
Robert Robert Pratley, Font Developer, URW++, Germany

Track 8
'The Next Toilet Signs - Alternative Typography with Cultural Diversity' *
Prof. Paresh Choudhury
Head, Communication Design,National Institute of Design, Vijayawada, India.
(Require :Laptops with Adobe Illustrator)

Track 9
'Closure Type' *
Agung Zainal Muttakin Raden
Lecturer, Indraprasta PGRI University, Jakarta Faculty of Language and Art,
Department of Visual Communication Design, Indonesia
(Require :Laptops with Adobe illustrator or Coreldraw)

Track 10
'Developing Indic fonts for Mac and iOS Platform’ (Workshop based on Sinhala,Tamil)
Mr. Sinnathamby Shanmugarajah, CEO, mBrain Technologies (Pvt) Ltd, Sri Lanka

Track 11
'Crafting Type: Beginners Letter Sketching And Font Making Boot camp'
Dave Crossland
Program Manager, Typography Specialist, Google, USA
Track 12
'DiversiType'
Prof. Kumkum Nadig, Faculty, Head, Visual Communication Design,
Srishti School of Design, Bangalore

Track 13
'Typography, Story Telling, Sound and Emotion' *
Prof. G V Sree kumar, Faculty Member, IDC IIT Bombay
(Require :Laptop with Adobe InDesign/Illustrator/Photoshop or equivalent)

Track 14
'From Wires To Computers' *
Prof. Antoine Abi Aad, Académie Libanaise des Beaux Arts, Lebanon

Track 15
'Form Play Speak calli typo explorations' *
Prof. Santosh Kshirsagar, Dean, Sir J J School of Applied Arts, Mumbai of Design
Prof. Ranjana Dani, MIT Institute of Design, Pune
(Required :Apron)

Track 16
'Diversity of Calligraphy’
Achyut Palav, Achyut Palav School of Calligraphy, Navi Mumbai

Day Two

Day 2 (24th February 2017) – Morning Session
Venue: NADA - Western Province Aesthetic Resort, 275/74 Prof Stanley Wijesundera Mawatha, Colombo 7

8.00 – 8.45
Registration and Tea

8.45 – 9.00
The Lighting of the Traditional Oil Lamp

9.00 – 9.15
Welcome Address:
Archt. Sithumini Ratnamalala,, Head, Department of Integrated Design and
Prof. Ravi Poovaiah, IDC IIT Bombay

9.15 – 9.30
University Address:
Dean, Faculty of Architecture, University of Moratuwa, Sri Lanka

Keynote Address:
9.30 – 10.15
Session Chair: Prof. G. V. Sreekumar , IDC, IIT Bombay, India

Keynote Address 1
Prof. R. K. Joshi Memorial Lecture
Mr. Gerry Leonidas, University of Reading, UK

10.15 – 11.00
Tea and networking

Session 1
Typography and Learning
Session Chair: Prof. Santosh kshirsagar Dean, Sir J J School of Applied Arts, Mumbai, India

11.00 – 11.15
Designing Diversity: Against The Typographic Canon
Dr. Sheena Calvert, University of the Arts, CCW/Royal College of Art, UK

11.15 – 11.30
Learning To Be An Experimenter – Tangible Prototyping of Letters
Rikke Hansen, Design School Hoejer, Denmark

11.30 – 11.45
Typography and Diversity in the Process of Learning: Typographical transition in A Child’s Early Reading Stage
Anitha B, English Learning Foundation, India

11.45 – 12.00
Discussion & QA

Session 2
Typography & Diversity
Session Chair:
Prof. KumKum Nadig, Faculty, Head, Visual Communication Design,
Srishti School of Design, Bangalore

12.00 – 12.15
Exploring The Diversity of Chinese Typography of Hong Kong’s Neon Signs
KWOK Sze Hang, School of Design, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong

12.15 – 12.30
Unity in Diversity Can Lead To Dynamic Layouts
Manasi Shekhar Keni, Rachana Sansad College of Applied Art and Craft, India

12.30 – 12.45
A Diversified Language of Tools
Kalpesh Gosavi, Sophia Polytechnic, Mumbai, India

12.45 – 1.00
Discussion & QA

1.00 – 02.15
Lunch and Networking

Day 2 (24th February 2017) – Afternoon Session
Venue: NADA - Western Province Aesthetic Resort, 275/74 Prof Stanley Wijesundera Mawatha, Colombo 7

Keynote Address
2.15 – 3.00
Session Chair:
Prof. Ravi Poovaiah, IDC, IIT Bombay, India

Keynote Address 2
Prof. Gihan V. Dias
Professor, University of Moratuwa, Sri Lanka

Session 3
Typography & Meaning

Session Chair:
Prof. Ranjana Dani
MEER’s MIT Institute of Design, Pune

3.00 – 3.15
Immersive Typography & Information Graphic: A Series of New Learning Tools for Tai Chi Practice
Hung Keung David, Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong

3.15 – 3.30
Communicating Trust in Chinese–English Bilingual Documents
Keith Tam, University of Reading, UK

3.30 – 3.45
Glocal Contextualisation of Typotecture : Situating the Type in A Built Form
Nandita Srinivas, R V College of Architecture, India

3.55 – 4.00
Discussion & QA

4.00 – 4.30
Tea and networking

Session 4
Typography & Local Culture
Session Chair:
Dr. Ajanta Sen,
Director, Solar Project, Mumbai

4.30 – 4.45
Vernacular Typography On The Batik Label As A Representation of Typeface Diversity
Agung Zainal Muttakin Raden and Muhammad Iqbal Qeis, Indraprasta, PGRI University Jakarta, Indonesia

4.45 – 5.00
Analytical Study on Decorative Sinhala Letter Forms Used in Kandyan Buddhist Mural Paintings
E. A. Jayamuthu Sandamali Edirisinghe, National School of Business Management, Sri Lanka

5.00 – 5.15
The Disappearance of Kundaliya, The Sinhala Punctuation. Stories From Development of Sinhala Typography in The Early 19th Century
Pathum Egodawatta, Mooniak, Sri Lanka

5.15 – 5.30
Discussion & QA

5.30 – 6.00
High Tea

Session 5
6.00 - 7.30
Typo Quiz
by Prof. Udaya Kumar, Department of Design, IIT Guwahati


Day Three

Day 3 (25th February 2017) – Morning Session
Venue: NADA - Western Province Aesthetic Resort, 275/74 Prof Stanley Wijesundera Mawatha, Colombo 7

9.00 – 9.45
Session Chair:
Dr. Sumanthri Samarawickrama,, Faculty, Department of Integrated Design,
University of Moratuwa, Sri Lanka

Vision Address 1
'Typography, Diversity and Creativity'
Russell Miranda,
Executive Creative Director, Grant McCann, Sri Lanka

Session 6
Typography & Diversity

Session Chair:
Prof. Antoine Abi Aad.
Académie Libanaise des Beaux Arts, Lebanon

9.45 – 10.00
Reflecting Culture Diversity Through The Printed Page: The Case of OWK Zine
Omiros Panayides, Cyprus University of Technology, Cyprus

10.00 – 10.15
Development of The Mina Font Project : Innovative Application of Diversity in Typography - A Case Study
Suman Bhandary, New Delhi, India

10.15 – 10.30
Culture in Unconventional Places - Lorry Decoration Sri Lanka
Leyanvi Mirando, Independent Graphic Designer, Sri Lanka

10.30 – 10.45
Discussion & QA

10.45 – 11.30
Tea and n networking

Session 7
Typography & Localisation
Session Chair:
Prof. Udaya Kumar,
Department of Design, IIT Guwahati

12.00 – 12.15
Without the past, there can be no future Shuchita Grover, EkType, India

11.30 – 11.45
The Typographic Rendering of The Local Dialect in Cyprus: Visualising Ideology in A Diversified Nation
Aspasia Papadima and Evripides Zantides, Cyprus University of Technology, Cyprus

11.45 – 12.00
Reviving a Manuscript Style As A Font: The Design Process of Jaini
Maithili Shingre, EkType, India

12.00 – 12.15
Epigraph on Clay: Special Reference in Sri Lankan Context
W.M.N. Dilshani Ranasinghe, Department of Integrated Design, Sri Lanka

12.15 – 12.30
Discussion & QA

Session 8
Typography & Pragmatics
Session Chair:
Rikke Hassen,
Head of Design hojskolen, Denmark

12.30 – 12.45
Ore Kallula Rendu Manga: Nimbus Sans Tamil Pria Ravichandran and Robert Pratley,
URW++, Germany

12.45 – 1.00
GUI-Based Chinese Font Editing System Using Font Parameterization Technique
Minju Son, School of Computer Science and Engineering, Soongsil University, South Korea

1.00 – 1.15
Discussion & QA

1.15 – 2.30
Lunch and Networking

Day 3 (25th February 2017) – Afternoon Session
Venue: NADA - Western Province Aesthetic Resort, 275/74 Prof Stanley Wijesundera Mawatha, Colombo 7

Vision Address
2.30 – 3.15
Session Chair:
Prof. Sreekumar, IDC, IIT Bombay, India
Vision Address 2
Peter De Almeida
Managing Director and Chief Executive of N*able (Pvt) Ltd, Sri Lanka

Session 9
Typography & Young Minds
Session Chair:
Savita Saraf,, Principal,
Rachana Sansad College of Applied Art & Craft Prabhadevi, Mumbai

3.15 – 3.30
Opportunities For New Digital Typefaces Inspired From Lettering in Bollywood Film Titles and Street Graphics in India
Mohammad Shahid, Department of Design, Indian Institute of Technology Guwahati, India

3.30 – 3.45
Devanagari Stencil Typeface
Pallavi Hemant Shedge, Sir J. J. Institute of Applied Art, Mumbai , India

3.45 – 4.00
Discussion & QA

4.00 – 4.30
Tea and networking

Session 10
Typeface 2016-17
Session Chair:
Dave Crossland,
Program Manager, Typography Specialist, Google, USA

4.30 – 4.45
Ek Type
Sarang Kulkarni, White Crow, India

4.45 – 5.00
Sinnathamby Shanmugarajah
mBrain Technologies (Pvt) Ltd, Sri Lanka,

5.00 – 5.15
Dave Crossland
Program Manager (Typography Specialist), Google

5.15 – 5.30
Fontlab (through video link)
Thomas Phinney, FontLab, USA

5.30 – 5.45
Lalindra Nanayakkara,
Executive Creative Director, Leo Burnett

Session 11
Closing session + Awards
Session Chairs:
Prof. Ravi Poovaiah, Prof. Sreekumar and Dr. Sumanthri Samarawickrama

5.45 – 6.30
Awards Ceremony + Closing Remarks + Vote of Thanks



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