The international conference Typographyday 2021, Mumbai, India with focus on ‘Hope and Typography’ is scheduled to be held online from 27th-28th, August 2021.

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

Typoday 2021 Schedule Day 1:
27th August 2021

Day 1: 27th August 2021, Inaugural Session + Keynote 1

Session Chairman: Dr. Ajanta Sen, Solar Project, India

IST:1300-1400 | USEast:0330-0430 | USWest:0030-0130 | UK:0830-0930 | EU:0930-1030 | Japan:1630-1730

Inaugural Session: (1300 – 1315) Keynote Address 1: Prof. R. K. Joshi Memorial Talk Speaker: Prof. Panchanan Mohanty, Professor & Head, Institute of Applied Sciences & Humanities Department, GLA University, Mathura, India, South Asia (IST 1315 – 1400)

Day 1: 27th August 2021, Parallel Workshop Sessions

IST:1400-1530 | USEast:0430-0600 | USWest:0130-0300 | UK:0930-1100 | EU:1030-1200 | Japan:1730-1900

Workshop Session 12 Parallel Sessions

Workshops 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12 1. Sri Achyut Palav, Calligrapher, Mumbai, India 2. Prof. G. V. Sreekumar, Typograher, IDC School of Design, Mumbai, India 3. Hiral Bhagat, Calligrpaher, Ahmedabad, India 4. Kailash Malaviya, EK Type, Mumbai, India 5. Prof. Santosh Kshirsagar, Sir J J School of Applied Arts, Mumbai, India 6. Prof. Udayakumar, DoD, IITG, India 7. Muthu Nedumaran, Typographer, Malaysia 8. Prof. Hashim Padiyath, Ananth National university, India 9. Prof. Kalpesh Gosavi, Sophia Polytechnic, Mumbai, India 10. Narayana Bhattathiri, Calligrapher, Trivandrum, India 11. Adam Twardoch and Yuri Yarmola, Fontlab, USA 12. Prof. Paresh Choudhury, Founder - Odisha Design Council (ODC) and Curator - Odisha Design Week, India

Session Break 30 minutes

Day 1: 27th August 2021, Keynotes 2 + 3

Session Chairman: Prof. Santosh Kshirsagar, Sir J J School of Applied Arts, Mumbai, India

IST:1600-1730 | USEast:0630-0800 | USWest:0330-0500 | UK:1130-1300 | EU:1230-1400 | Japan:1930-2100

Vision Address 2: Speaker: Osmond Tshuma, Type Designer, Zimbabwe, Africa (IST 1600 – 1645) (Zimbabwe 1230 – 1315) Vision Address 3: Speaker: Mariko Takagi, Typographer and Faculty, Japan East Asia (1645 -1730) ) (Japan 2015 hrs to 2100)

Session Break 30 minutes

Day 1: 27th August 2021, Paper Session 1 (Academics)

Session Chairman: Prof. Udaya Kumar, HoD, Department of Design, IIT Guwahati, India

IST:1800-1930 | USEast:0830-1000 | USWest:0530-0700 | UK:1330-1500 | EU:1430-1600 | Japan:2130-2300

Academics:

Paper: 1 + 2 + 3 + 4 + 5

Paper:1
Type for Peace. A Development and International Cooperation Project
Daniela Piscitelli, Rosanna Cianniello, Roberta Angari, University of Campania Luigi Vanvitelli, Italy

Paper:2
Evolving to survive the ‘new normal’ of teaching and learning Typography during COVID-19
Manasi Keni, Rachana Sansad College of Applied Art& Craft, India

Paper:3
Towards a Typography of Place
Dale Sattler, Toi Ohomai Institute of Technology, New Zealand

Paper:4
Helvetica-like Thai typefaces: From dry transfer lettering to digital fonts
Dr. Rachapoom Punsongserm, Faculty of Fine and Applied Arts, Thummasat University, Thailand

Paper:5
Plecnik: Typeface Designed on the Basis of Hand Drawn Letters by Jože Plečnik from the Archive Collection
Alja Herlah, Type Salon, Slovenia

Day 1: 27th August 2021, Keynote Session 4

Session Chairman: Prof. Ravi Poovaiah, IDC School of Design, IIT Bombay, Mumbai, India

IST:1930-2030 | USEast:1000-1100 | USWest:0700-0800 | UK:1500-1600 | EU:1600-1700 | Japan:2300-2400

Vision Address 2: Speaker: David Blatner, CEO, CreativePro Network, USA, North America (1930 – 2015) (US West 0700-0745)

Day Two

Typoday 2021 Schedule Day 2:
28th August 2021

Day 2: 28th August 2021, Keynote Session 5

Session Chairman: Dr. Ajanta Sen, Solar Project, India

IST:1300-1400 | USEast:0330-0430 | USWest:0030-0130 | UK:0830-0930 | EU:0930-1030 | Japan:1630-1730

Speaker: Dr. Vicki Couzens, Indigenous Artist and Researcher, RMIT, Australia (IST 1300 – 1400) (Melbourne 1730-1830)

Day 2: 28th August 2021, Paper Session 2 (Students)

Session Chairman: Dr. Ajanta Sen, Solar Project, India

IST:1400-1530 | USEast:0430-0600 | USWest:0130-0300 | UK:0930-1100 | EU:1030-1200 | Japan:1730-1900

Students:

Paper: 6 + 7 + 8 + 9 + 10 + 11 + 12 + 13 (10 minutes presentation)

Paper:6
Designing an Interlocking Devanagari Display Font
Adarsh Malviya, IDC School of Design, India

Paper:7
Curating “Kuppai”: Research and Explorations with Found Type from Ancestral Attics
Jayasri Sridhar, National Institute of Design, Ahmedabad, India

Paper:8
Exploring ways of writing and documenting Bharatnatyam using notations
Saloni Tangal, Kingston University, London, UK

Paper:9
Synesthetes Type - An Audio reactive Typeface
Sushrut Jangid, S.P.A Bhopal, Department of Design, India

Paper:10
Asking a Shadow to Dance: Creating Poetic Spaces through Interactive Typography
Priti Pandurangan, Gramener, India

Paper:11
Balcony - A Type Family Inspired by Metal Safety Grills
Shaily Patel, Department of Applied Arts, Faculty of Fine Arts, The Maharaja Sayajirao University of Baroda, India

Paper:12
Devanagari Typeface Inspired By Gender Equality
Srishti Mitra, National Institute of Design, Ahmedabad, India

Paper:13
Understanding the development in Indian Calligraphy with focus on Devanagari
Lakhi Shreya, Indian Institute of Technology, Hyderabad, India

Session Break 30 minutes

Day 2: 28th August 2021, Keynotes 6 + 7

Session Chairman: Prof. Kumkum Nadig, Dean, Srishti Manipal Institute of Art, Design and Technology, Bengaluru, India

IST:1600-1730 | USEast:0630-0800 | USWest:0330-0500 | UK:1130-1300 | EU:1230-1400 | Japan:1930-2100

Vision Address 6: Speaker: Veronika Burain, Typographer, Czech Republic, Europe (IST 1600-1645) (EU 1230 – 1315) Vision Address 7: Speaker: Dr. Nadine Chahine, Typo Designer, Lebanon, West Asia (IST 1645-1730)(London 1215-1300)

Session Break 30 minutes

Day 2: 28th August 2021, Paper Session 3 (Academics and Professionals)

Session Chairman: Prof. G. V. Sreekumar, IDC School of Design, IIT Bombay, Mumbai, India

IST:1800-1930 | USEast:0830-1100 | USWest:0530-0600 | UK:1330-1500 | EU:1430-1600 | Japan:2130-2300

Academics and Professionals:

Paper 14 + 15 + 16 + 17 + 18 + 19

Paper:14
Ik Onkar Gurmukhī (ੴ ਗੁਰਮੁਖੀ): Decoding Culture-Form Associations in Writing practice
Nanki Nath, Visiting Faculty, Vishwaniketan Institute of Design [VID], Pune, India

Paper:15
The typographic poster from local culture to the world
Mónica Acosta-Torres, Universidad Técnica del Norte, Ecuador

Paper:16
Jay Tirhuta: Rejuvenating Mithilakshar through Design
Jayant Kumar, NIFT Patna, India

Paper:17
Method Experimentation on Display Typeface Design Based on Visual Cultural Artifacts
Brian Alvin Hananto, Universitas Pelita Harapan, Indonesia

Paper:18
Typographical Investigation of Mauryan Brahmi – Origin, Evolution & Role in development of Indic and Southeast Asian Scripts
Ankita Roy, Indian Institute of Technology, Hyderabad, India

Paper:19
Multilingual logotype case studies in Indic scripts
Sarang Kulkarni, Ek Type, Mumbai, India

Day 2: 28th August 2021, Keynote 8 and Closing Notes

Session Chairman: Prof. Manish Arora, Faculty of Visual Arts, BHU, Banaras, India

IST:1930-2030 | USEast:1000-1100 | USWest:0700-0800 | UK:1500-1600 | EU:1600-1700 | Japan:2300-2400

Vision Address 8: Speaker: Jorge Iván Moreno Majul, Type Designer, Mexico, South America  (IST 1930 – 2015) (Mexico  0900 - 0945) Closing Session: (IST 2015–2030)