Conference

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Thursday, 30 September 2021 - Session 1

Time Title Presenter(s) Type Category Language
8:00 AM CST Yes, you can make a variable and colorful handwriting font!
  • Erwin Denissen
Workshop

Art

English

9:00 AM CST Designing a Feminist Devanagari Typeface
  • Srishti Mitra
Talk

Emotion

  • English
9:30 AM CST Structural Analysis of Practical Gujarati Calligraphy
  • Hiral Bhagat
Talk

Art

  • English
10:00 AM CST Letters from home
  • Amrit Warwal
Talk

History

  • English
10:30 AM CST Calligraphic typesetting exploration of religious scriptures to resurrect the emotional and spiritual connection originally existed in the traditional penmanship
  • Abhay Verma
Talk

History

  • English
11:00 AM CST A Recapitulative Guide to Tirhuta Typography
  • Samrāṭ Jhā
Talk

History

  • English
  • Nepali
11:30 AM CST Animating Variable Fonts in Real-Time with Coldtype & Python
  • Rob Stenson
Workshop

Tech

English

12:30 PM CST Balancing Type Design with Language Learning (Hangeul/Korean)
  • Michelle Devlin
Talk

Art

  • English
1:00 PM CST Modern History of Arabic Type: The reforming projects for the Arabic Script
  • Farah Abdel Hadi
Talk

History

  • English
1:30 PM CST The Research of Tool Making Towards Intuitive Variable Font Specimens
  • Rony Ginosar
Talk

Art

  • English
2:00 PM CST Chancho va, reloaded
  • Carolina Giovagnoli
  • Diogo Ramos
  • Angelina Sanchez
  • Florencia Yacante Biassoni
  • Muk Monsalve
Event
  • English
  • Spanish

Thursday, 30 September 2021 - Session 2

Time Title Presenter(s) Type Category Language
5:00 PM CST Introduction to pricing custom font work
  • John Hudson
Workshop

Relationship

English

6:00 PM CST Enrico Martínez: un rescate tipografico del México novohipano
  • Pedro Sosa
Talk

Relationship

  • Español
6:30 PM CST Navigating the Process: Research Methodologies For Designing In Non-Native Scripts
  • Natalie Snodgrass
Talk

Art

  • English
7:00 PM CST How To Design Your Country's National Font
  • Wayne Thompson
Talk

Emotion

  • English
7:30 PM CST Evolving Baybayin Text Typeface Design Principles
  • Rafa Cases
Talk

History

  • English

Friday, 1 October 2021 - Session 3

Time Title Presenter(s) Type Category Language
8:00 AM CST InkPlay with Gujarati Calligraphy
  • Hiral Bhagat
Workshop

Art

English

9:00 AM CST Font of the Month Club "Gather" giveaway
Event

English

9:30 AM CST First attempt at Gujarati Type Design : Approach and Process
  • Krutika Shah
Talk

Art

  • English
10:00 AM CST Creating from Kuppai: Finding the Type in Trash
  • Jayasri Sridhar
Talk

Relationship

  • English
10:30 AM CST An Oasis of Type, and a Fount of Knowledge
  • Ishan Khosla
Talk

Art

  • English
  • Hindi
11:00 AM CST A most Indian type
  • Taresh Vohra
Talk

Relationship

  • English
11:30 AM CST HT LetterSpacer. A smarter approach to font spacing.
  • Carolina Giovagnoli
  • Juan Pablo del Peral
Workshop

Tech

English

12:30 PM CST Moroccan design, works with shape and soul
  • Dina Benbrahim
Talk

Emotion

  • English
1:00 PM CST Unicode Character Tools
  • Richard Ishida
Talk

Tech

  • English
1:30 PM CST All set! About characters, glyphs and which set to include in your font
  • Nina Botthof
Talk

Guidance

  • English
2:00 PM CST Mauricio Amster, tipógrafo antifascista
  • Joaquín Contreras
Talk

Emotion

  • Español

Friday, 1 October 2021 - Session 4

Time Title Presenter(s) Type Category Language
5:00 PM CST A drop of ink, a drop of Persian culture
  • Maryam Khaleghiyazdi
Workshop

Art

English

6:00 PM CST Letters for a circular crossing: designing a typeface for yorùbá
  • B. Benedicto
Talk

Guidance

  • English
  • Portuguese
6:30 PM CST Teaching cultural awareness with typography
  • Melanie Uribe
Talk

Guidance

  • English
7:00 PM CST Likewise, same, similar: typeface differentiation in cultural festival identity design
  • Tonya Meyrick
Talk

Relationship

  • English
7:30 PM CST Fonts for video games: overlooked and underserved
  • Justin Penner
Talk

Tech

  • English
8:00 PM CST Exploring vernacular type in Hanoi
  • Elisabeth Kvernen
Talk

History

  • English

Saturday, 2 October 2021 - Session 5

Time Title Presenter(s) Type Category Language
8:00 AM CST Proofing and debugging OpenType fonts
  • Muthu Nedumaran
Workshop

Tech

English

9:00 AM CST Hearing Type and Seeing Sound: The Adaptation of Gamelan Sunda's Musical Characteristics into Variable Fonts and Kinetic Typography (Experimental Project)
  • Annisa Luthfiasari
Talk

Guidance

  • English
9:30 AM CST Chakma script handwriting to digitization
  • Bivuti Suz Moriz
Talk

History

  • English
10:00 AM CST Kashmir Type Hunt
  • Waqar Qamri
Talk

Emotion

  • English
10:30 AM CST Don't judge a book designer by their layout
  • Ragini Siruguri
Talk

Relationship

  • English
11:00 AM CST Letters can speak to you with different tones: The Cultural Narrative of Arabic Typefaces
  • Atefeh Mohammadi
Talk

Emotion

  • English
11:30 AM CST Lettering Workshop: Making Cyrillic & Latin cohabit the same visual environment
  • Jovana Jocić
Workshop

Art

English

12:30 PM CST Reviving the Nubian Script, Part II: Restarting Nubian Type Design
  • Arbaab Eujayl
Talk

History

  • Arabic
  • English
1:00 PM CST Contemporary Arabic type between legibility and familiarity
  • Mohamed Gaber
Talk

Art

  • English
1:30 PM CST Strategy for foundries
  • Joana Correia
Talk

Relationship

  • English
2:00 PM CST Typotheque North American Syllabics:accommodating the typographic needs and preferences of local Syllabics-using Indigenous communities by reforming the Unified Canadian Aboriginal Syllabics text standard
  • Kevin King
Talk

Emotion

  • English

Saturday, 2 October 2021 - Session 6

Time Title Presenter(s) Type Category Language
5:00 PM CST Type in motion. Storyboard for typography
  • Cecilia Brarda
Workshop

Art

English

6:00 PM CST Gesture as data: explorations in hybrid calligraphy
  • Mariana Leal
Talk

Tech

  • Portuguese
6:30 PM CST Exploring the Cherokee Syllabary
  • Chris Skillern
Talk

History

  • English
7:00 PM CST Discovering the Recipe to Value-Based Pricing
  • Jasmine Holmes
Talk

Relationship

  • English
7:30 PM CST Inversion of Thai Latinized
  • Potch Auacherdkul
Talk

Emotion

  • English
8:00 PM CST Primer on Japanese typographic rules
  • Norbert Preining
Talk

History

  • English

Sunday, 3 October 2021 - Session 7

Time Title Presenter(s) Type Category Language
8:00 AM CST Exploring the possibilities and getting started with 3D Typography
  • Abhay Verma
Workshop

Art

English

9:00 AM CST Contemporary typographic exploration for a classical script
  • Saroj Ranjan Patra
Talk

Art

  • English
9:30 AM CST TypeCrit Session
Event

English

10:30 AM CST A New Old Idiom of Design
  • Pooja Saxena
Talk

History

  • English
11:00 AM CST Type X Sound
  • Vivek Thakker
Talk

Guidance

  • English
11:30 AM CST Unicode is not for you
  • Liang Hai (梁海)
Workshop

Tech

English

12:30 PM CST Font of the Month Club "Gather" giveaway announcement
Event

English

1:00 PM CST Justification of Arabic Text: what's next?
  • Kamal Mansour
Talk

Art

  • English
2:00 PM CST The Wonders of Hebrew Wood Type
  • Shani Avni
Talk

History

  • English

Sunday, 3 October 2021 - Session 8

Time Title Presenter(s) Type Category Language
5:00 PM CST Variable Workshop: Theory, Basics, and Playing with Potential in Glyphs
  • Kaleb Dean
Workshop

Art

English

6:00 PM CST Relations between typography and politics from the perspective of a young Brazilian
  • Eduardo Cazon
Talk

Emotion

  • Portuguese
6:30 PM CST Testing Fonts on the Web with TypeTuner
  • Mew Ophaswongse
Talk

Tech

  • English
7:00 PM CST Reframing the Indian Vernacular Typography
  • Shantanu Suman
Talk

History

  • English
7:30 PM CST The Good, The Bad, and the Ugly: Pushing Illegibility in Typographic Trends
  • Amy Fang
Talk

Relationship

  • English
8:00 PM CST Engaging the Filipino Type Community
  • Jo Malinis
Talk

Emotion

  • English
  • Filipino

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