ISType 2017: Variations

June 9-10, 2017
An international gathering at which students, professionals and enthusiasts can share their ideas and inspire each other, ISType 2017 invites you to explore the subtleties that lie beneath type production. The theme Variation will revolve around the many interactions between practice, theory and history within the field of typography.

Seminars
Ewan Clayton, From Calligraphy to Type
Martin Majoor, Changes in Type Design
Bianca Berning, What The Government Doesn't Want You to Know About Variable Fonts
Khajag Apelian, Calligraphic Letterforms with Bite
Liron Lavi Turkenich, We are not Alone
Kristyan Sarkis, A Perspective on Arabic Type, Identity & Culture
Laura Meseguer, On Process
Sarp Sözdinler, Looking at Type as a Means of Expressive Instrument
Esen Karol, An Editorial Designer’s Experience with Fonts
Johannes Bergerhausen, Digital Cuneiform
Emanuela Conidi, Researching The Origins of Arabic Typography
Akiem Helmling, Bas Jacobs, Everything is Type
Irene Vlachou, The Evolution of Greek Typefaces
Thomas Huot-Marchand, Knuth vs. Hofstadter
Adam Twardoch, Make Your Fonts Variable. Upgrading Existing Font Projects to OpenType Variations
Nikola Djurek, Written vs. Spoken

For more information: http://2017.istype.com/