Schedule

Schedule of events during the International Conference
'Typography Day 2018' :
Day one - Thursday 1st March, Day two - Friday 2nd March, and Day three - Saturday 3rd March 2018 at Sir J J Institute of Applied Art, Mumbai
The schedule is as follows: . . . . . . . . . . .

Day One

Day 1 (1st March 2018) – Workshops
Venue: Sir J J Institute of Applied Art, Mumbai, India

8.30 – 9.30
Registration  and Tea

9.30 – 9.45
Welcome and Introduction to the Facilitators

10.00 – 1.00

Morning Sessions


1.00 – 2.30

Lunch


2.30 – 5.30
Afternoon Sessions

5.30 – 6.00
Workshop Exhibits + Tea

Workshops Tracks

Track 1
'Creating Open Type Fonts for Indic Scripts '
Rainer Erich Scheichelbauer,
Typographer, Austria and Muthu Nedumaran, Typographer, Malaysia

Track 2
'Landscapes and Wordscapes - typographic storytelling '
Prof. G V Sree kumar
, Head, IDC IIT Bombay / Designer, Mumbai

Track 3
'Typographic Abstraction'
Prof. Kumkum Nadig, Dean, Head, Visual Communication Design, Srishti School of Design, Bangalore

Track 4
'Reviving Calligraphic Styles as Fonts '
Prof Girish Dalvi, Faculty, IDC, IIT Bombay and Maithili Shingre, Type Designer, Ek Type, Mumbai

Track 5
‘Word visual Narratives’
Prof. Kalpesh Gosavi
Faculty, Sophia Polytechnic, Art and Design Department, Mumbai

Track 6
'Artistic Typography'
Prof. Mahendra Patel, Adjunct Faculty at several Design Institutions and Prof. Pradya Naik, Faculty, SID, Pune
(*Laptop Needed)

Track 7
'Semantics in Type to design Brand Identity'
Prof. Nanki Nath
, Faculty, NID Ahmedabad

Track 8

‘Introduction to Typography Through Letterpress Printing’
Prof. Tarun Deep Giridhar, Faculty, NID Ahmedabad and Prof. Shubhanand Gopal Jog, Faculty, Sir J. J. Institute of Applied Art, Mumbai


Track 9
'Modi Script- Exploring the Forgotten'
Achyut Palav, Achyut Palav School of Calligraphy, Navi Mumbai

Track 10
‘Further Than Latin, Further Than Typography’
Prof. Abi Aad Antoine and Prof. Rana Abou Rjeily, Faculty Members of Fine Arts and Architecture, Lebanese University, Lebanon

Track 11
‘Drawing Parallel Styles Across Scripts'
Noopur Datye, Type Designer and Co-founder, Ek Type, Mumbai
Track 12
‘Intro to Font Creation with FontLab VI’
Thomas Phinney, Fontlab, USA(*Laptop Needed)

Track 13
‘Lettering Workshop: Harmony in type and illustration'
Sulekha Rajkumar, Graphic Designer, Type Designer and Lettering Artist, Mumbai

Track 14
‘Art Deco Mumbai'
Kimya Gandhi, Type Designer, Mumbai and Rob Keller, Type Designer at Mota Italic, Berlin, Germany

Day Two

Day 2 (2nd March 2018) – Morning Session
Venue: Convocation Hall, University of Mumbai, Fort Campus, M. G. Road, Fort, Mumbai - 400032, India

8.30 – 9.00
Registration and Tea

9.00 – 9.15
Inauguration ceremony and Launch of Commutative Volume 10 years of Typography Day. By Honorable guests

9.15 – 9.30
Welcome Address:
Welcome Address by Prof Ravi Poovaiah, Prof G V Sreekumar and Prof Santosh Kshirsagar, Dean, Sir J J Institute of Applied Arts

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

Keynote Address 1
Prof. R. K. Joshi Memorial Lecture
Exploring Type
Josy Paul, Chairman and Chief Creative Officer, BBDO, India

10.20 – 10.45
Tea and networking

Session 1
Beauty, form and function in Type-design
Session Chair: Prof. Prof. Mahendra Patel Emeritus Professor, NID

10.45 – 11.05
Exploring A Cursive Design for Beauty Form and Function
Dr. Muthu Nedumaran, Murasu Systems Sdn Bhd, Malaysia

11.05 – 11.25
Spiral splines in typeface design - A case study of Manjari Malayalam typeface
Santhosh Thottingal and Kavya Manohar, Swathanthra Malayalam Computing, India

11.25 – 11.45
Variants & Beauty
Monica Maccaux, University of Nevada, Reno, US

11.45 – 12.00
Discussion & QA

Session 2
Beauty, form and function of Handmade Typography
Session Chair:
Prof. Sudhakar Nadkarni, Dean, Werlingkar Management Institute, Mumbai

12.05– 12.25
Handmade typography versus computer fonts - analysis based on the contemporary Polish graphic design and socially engaged posters
Jarek Bujny, Institute of Industrial Design, The Koszalin University of Technology, Poland

12.25 – 12.45
Analysis of Malayalam hand-painted lettering styles
Unnati Kotecha and Maithili Shingre, Ek Type, Mumbai, India

12.45 – 1.00
Discussion & QA

1.00 – 2.30
Lunch and Networking
Day 2 (2nd March 2018) – Afternoon Session
Venue: Convocation Hall, University of Mumbai, Fort Campus, M. G. Road, Fort, Mumbai - 400032, India

Vision Address
2.30 – 3.10
Session Chair:
Prof. Santosh Kshirsagar, Dean, Sir J. J. Institute of Applied Art, Mumbai

Vision Address 1

Greetings from Japan - The typeface bridges distinct cultures.
Keitaro Sakamoto, Project Manager, Research Fellow in Graphic Design and Digital Media, Japan


Session 3
Typography & Teaching

Session Chair:
Sudharshan Dheer
Graphic Communication Concepts, Mumbai

3.20 – 3.30
The making of Beautiful - A method for designing type for Jordanian students
Rejan Ashour and Prof. Mohammad Ali Yaghan, German Jordanian Univeristy, Jordan

3.30 – 3.40
Sound, typography and interaction - The intersection of seeing and listening
Rikke Hansen, University of Southern Denmark, Denmark and Barnabas Wetton, Head of International Innovation Design School Kolding, Denmark

3.40 – 4.00
Introducing students to the concept of beauty in Typography
Manasi Shekhar Keni, Rachana Sansad College of Applied Art & Craft, Mumbai, India

4.00 – 4.10
Discussion & QA

4.10 – 4.40
Tea and networking

Session 4
Typography in Practice
Session Chair:
Mr. Mustansir Dalvi
Faculty Sir J J Institute of Architecture, Mumbai

4.40 – 5.00
A Knowing Wrongness
Fraser Muggeridge, Director Fraser Muggeridge studio / teacher at Department of Typography, Univesity of Reading, UK

5.00 – 5.20
Democracy in Default
John-Patrick Hartnett, London College of Communication – University of the Arts, London, UK

5.20 – 5.30
Discussion & QA

Session 5
Industry Presentations
 

5.30 – 5.40
Thomas Phinney, FontLab, USA

5.40 – 5.50

Dave Crossland, Google


5.50 – 6.00
HP Printer

6.00 – 7.10
Typo Quiz

Day Three

Day 3 (3rd March 2018) – Morning Session
Venue: Convocation Hall, University of Mumbai, Fort Campus, M. G. Road, Fort, Mumbai - 400032, India

8.30 – 9.15
Tea

9.15 – 10.00
Session Chair:
Mr. Aurobind Patel, Designer and Typographer, India

Keynote Address 2
Beauty, Form, Function and experiments within.
Jennifer Sterling,
AGI member and Founder of Sterling Design, San Francisc

10.15 – 10.45
Tea and networking


Session 6
Multi-disciplinary Typography

Session Chair:
Sujit Patwardan
Founder, Mudra, Pune

10.45 – 11.05
Sthiti - A Digital Keyboard to explore Typography in Virtual Reality & Augmented Reality continuum
Mohit Goel, Indian Institute of Technology, Hyderabad, India

11.05 – 11.25
Functional Instructions with Braille pictograms using Morphological Analysis for Sightless Children’s Picture Books Subtitle: A new proposal to blind children story books
Siddhesh Sushil Shirsekar, Viva Institute of Applied Art, India

11.25 – 11.45
Typographic Approaches on Ceramic Surfaces
Oya Asan Yuksel and Eren Evin Kılıçkaya Boğ, Dumlupinar University, Turkey

11.45 – 12.00
Discussion & QA


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

12.00 – 12.20
Writing English in Arabic letters
Prof. Mohammad Ali Yaghan, German Jordanian University, Jordan

12.20 – 12.40
Handcrafted beauty in a functional typeface
Ishan Khosla, The Typecraft Initiative - Ishan Khosla Design LLP, India

12.40 – 1.00
Effectiveness of the homologous Thai letterforms on visibility under a simulated condition of low visual acuity
Rachapoom Punsongserm, Prof. Shoji Sunaga and Prof.Hisayasu Ihara, Graduate School of Design, Kyushu University, Fukuoka, Japan

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

1.00 – 1.10
Discussion & QA

1.10 – 2.30
Lunch and Networking

Day 3 (3rd March 2018) – Afternoon Session
Venue: Convocation Hall, University of Mumbai, Fort Campus, M. G. Road, Fort, Mumbai - 400032, India

2.30 – 3.10
Session Chair: Prof. Ravi Poovaiah, Faculty, IDC, IIT Bombay, India

Vision Address 2
Word-Pictures, a Writer's view of Typography
Gangadharan Menon, Copywriter, Teacher, Journalist, Creative Director, India

Session 8
Typography & Native scripts
Session Chair:
Dr. Girish Dalvi, Faculty, IDC, IIT Bombay, India

3.20 – 3.40
Exploring typography of Sinhala numerals
Kosala Senevirathne, Mooniak, Sri Lanka

3.40 – 4.00
Typography and Language - The Form and Function of Post-Pallawa Scripts in Tanjung Tanah Manuscript
Agung Zainal Muttakin Raden and Muhammad Iqbal Qeis, Universitas Indraprasta PGRI Jakarta, Indonesia

4.00 – 4.10
Discussion & QA

4.10 – 4.40
Tea and networking

Session 9
Typography & Young Minds
Session Chair:
Dr. Ajanta Sen
Founder Design in India and Director, Solar Project, India

4.40 – 4.50
अक्षरसौंदर्य - एक लयबद्ध रचना
Virag Ramesh Arkade,
Rachana Sansad College of Applied Art and Craft, Mumbai, India

4.50 – 5.00
Introduction of Indian culture to the generation
Aishwarya Sanjay Mestry,L S Raheja School of Art, India

5.00 – 5.10
Lyrical Typography - A study of typography in Lyric Videos
Shriya Bhattacharya, Pearl Academy, Noida, India

5.10 – 5.20
The Moh Maya Project
Nayana Gupta, Bizongo, India

5.20 – 5.30
The Pessimist Type- beauty in the “letterish-ness” of the complex and the negative
Sayali Milind Phadke, Rachana Sansad College of Applied Art and Craft, Mumbai, India

5.30 – 5.40
Discussion & QA

Session 10
Closing session + Awards
Session Chair:
Prof. Ravi Poovaiah, Faculty, IDC, IIT Bombay, India and Prof. Santosh Kshirsagar, Dean- Sir J. J. Institute of Applied Art, Mumbai

5.40 – 6.30

Scholar Extraordinary in Typography and Printing- Bapurao Naik
presented by Deepak Ghare, Graphic Designer, India

Awards Ceremony + Closing Remarks

6.45 – 7.45
Visit to Nature Embedded – A Design Technology Experience and
Presentation by Prof. Arthur Engelbert on Connecting aspects of Everyday Life through Design, Art, Media
at National Gallery of Modern Art (NGMA), Mumbai
http://www.dsource.in/events/naturembedded/

7.45 –8.00
High Tea


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