Main programme
Presentations by date
Starts at 12:00, 15 September 2005,
at Lume Media Centre, Helsinki
Preliminary content, subject to change.
View presentations table | by date | by theme | by location
Thursday 15 September
18:00 – 20:00
Main hall | Stuff | 120 minutes
Mayor's welcome reception
Helsinki Old Town Hall |
Paula Kokkonen
Friday 16 September
09:00 – 09:30
Main hall | World | 30 minutes
Conference opening |
Jean François Porchez
09:30 – 10:15
Main hall | Culture | 45 minutes
Type issues for the twenty-first century
ATypI Helsinki Keynote Address |
Aaron Marcus
10:15 – 10:45
30 minutes
Coffee Break
10:45 – 11:30
Main hall | North | 45 minutes
Letters of Helsinki |
Kai Rentola
Room 2 | North | 45 minutes
From symbol to living form
The typographic glyph as image of life and death processes |
Mark Geard
Room 3 | Letter | 45 minutes
Pradell
On the edge of oblivion |
Andreu Balius
11:30 – 12:15
Main hall | Culture | 45 minutes
From the cow to the typewriter
The (true) history of writing |
Alessio Leonardi
Room 2 | North | 45 minutes
Berling Nova |
Örjan Nordling
Room 3 | Perception | 45 minutes
Type on maps |
Artur Frankowski
12:15 – 13:14
59 minutes
Lunch Break
| | 30 minutes
FFifteen/FontFont exhibition opening
Fifth floor |
Room 3 | Stuff | 60 minutes
Experimental typography and found objects workshop |
Meta Newhouse
13:15 – 14:00
Main hall | Culture | 45 minutes
About everything |
Peter Bilak
Room 2 | Perception | 45 minutes
Money is a design object
Typography on american paper money |
Danielle Aubert
Room 3 | World | 45 minutes
Ancient cyrillic, do it or don't do it!
Overview of cyrillic forms and compromises to avoid |
Adrian Englert
14:00 – 14:45
Main hall | Perception | 45 minutes
No room! No room!
Typography in ridiculously small spaces |
Mark Barratt
Room 2 | Perception | 45 minutes
Type on the edge of design
The design innovations and typographic beauty of transportation timetables |
Barry Roseman
Room 3 | Culture | 45 minutes
Typeface is a weapon |
, Sonia Díaz
14:45 – 15:15
30 minutes
Coffee Break
Room 3 | | 30 minutes
Press Conference |
Simone Wolf
15:15 – 16:00
Main hall | Letter | 45 minutes
Lettering, typography or somewhere in between |
Ken Barber, Tal Leming
Room 2 | Culture | 45 minutes
Typographic tales from the edge of empire |
Mary Anne Bolger, Clare Bell
Room 3 | Learning | 45 minutes
Children and typography |
Sue Walker, Paul Luna, Katherine Gillieson, Nicola Robson
16:00 – 16:45
Main hall | Letter | 45 minutes
Font design with an edge
Designing fonts for ClearType |
Geraldine Wade
Room 2 | Letter | 45 minutes
Corporate Type on the edge of legitimacy
Corporate Piracy or How not to get ahead in business |
Yves Peters
Room 3 | Learning | 45 minutes
Children and typography |
Sue Walker, Paul Luna, Katherine Gillieson, Nicola Robson
16:45 – 17:30
Main hall | Technology | 45 minutes
Using Maxdox for designing multimedia for mobile phones |
Joonas Luotonen
Room 2 | North | 20 minutes
Translating typography
Multilingual problems (possibilities) in graphic design |
Jorma Hinkka
Room 3 | Learning | 45 minutes
Children and typography |
Sue Walker, Paul Luna, Katherine Gillieson, Nicola Robson
17:30 – 18:00
30 minutes
Coffee Break and Auction review
18:00 – 19:00
Main hall | | 60 minutes
Great AUCTION |
Erik Spiekermann
Saturday 17 September
00:00 – 00:45
45 minutes
Lunch break (cont)
08:45 – 09:30
Main hall | World | 45 minutes
The typographic inception of the Cherokee syllabary |
Patrick Giasson
Room 2 | World | 45 minutes
Contemporary hebrew typography as an expression of a new identity |
Oded Ezer, Yehuda Hofshi
Room 3 | Learning | 45 minutes
Handwriting and Type
Setting Fonts on Creating One Page |
Nadezda Pavlova
09:30 – 10:15
Main hall | Letter | 45 minutes
Those mathematical characters |
Johannes Küster
Room 2 | Learning | 45 minutes
Workshops on the edge |
Lucas Nijs, Frederik de Bleser, Tom de Smedt
Room 3 | World | 45 minutes
Ukrainian fonts |
10:15 – 10:45
30 minutes
Coffee Break
10:45 – 11:30
Main hall | North | 45 minutes
The Finnish design posters |
Ulla Aartomaa
Room 2 | Letter | 45 minutes
Elementar
A flexible bitmap system |
Gustavo Ferreira
Room 3 | Letter | 45 minutes
Pic(ture) Lig(ature)s |
Christina Schultz
11:30 – 12:15
Main hall | Letter | 45 minutes
Janus and the phoenix
The Pre-Serifed Roman Letter |
Sumner Stone
Room 2 | World | 45 minutes
Mesrob & Yacob
The story of the Armenian alphabet |
Carolyn Puzzovio
Room 3 | Learning | 45 minutes
Blurring the edge
Explorations in new media by graphic design students |
Lode Coen
12:15 – 12:29
14 minutes
Lunch Break
Room 3 | Stuff | 14 minutes
Helsinki font marathon 2005 |
Tomi Haaparanta
12:30 – 13:15
| | 45 minutes
Matthew Carter: Typographically speaking exhibition
Opening of exhibition |
45 minutes
Lunch break
13:15 – 14:00
Main hall | Perception | 45 minutes
Measuring the aesthetics of typography |
Kevin Larson
Room 2 | North | 45 minutes
Kuollut is dead (Followed by Mart Anderson) |
Syrup Helsinki, Mart Anderson
Room 3 | World | 45 minutes
Alphabetical revolution and the effect of Turkish typographic design |
Ebru Baranseli, İpek Torun
14:00 – 14:45
Main hall | North | 45 minutes
Language, typography, type design |
Jarno Lukkarila
Room 2 | North | 45 minutes
Treasures (Following Mart Anderson)
Exhibition of the oldest books of the national library of finland |
Sirkka Havu, Mart Anderson
Room 3 | Technology | 45 minutes
Nastaliq style through open type |
Kamal Mansour
14:45 – 15:15
30 minutes
Coffee Break
| | 30 minutes
TDC prize award ceremony
Track room A |
15:15 – 16:00
Main hall | | 45 minutes
Typographical Play
Borrowing from theatrical models to create meaningful form |
Kristin Hughes, Deborah Shmerler
Room 2 | Learning | 45 minutes
Typographic Education Forum
Teaching typography now |
Gerry Leonidas
Room 3 | Learning | 45 minutes
Get integrated! |
Hugo Puttaert
16:00 – 16:45
Main hall | Technology | 45 minutes
PostScript type 1 goes over the Edge |
Thomas Phinney
Room 2 | Learning | 45 minutes
Typographic Education Forum
Teaching typography now |
Gerry Leonidas
Room 3 | North | 45 minutes
Estonian style: Russian or German? |
Ivar Sakk
16:45 – 17:30
Main hall | Letter | 45 minutes
Matthew Carter's typefaces
Integrating Technologies and Bridging Cultures |
Margaret Re
17:30 – 18:30
60 minutes
Break
19:00 – 23:00
| | 240 minutes
GALA DINNER |
Sunday 18 September
09:30 – 10:15
Main hall | North | 45 minutes
A Wild Play With Diacritics
OpenType Version of Uralic Phonetic |
Juhani Lehtiranta
Room 2 | Letter | 45 minutes
On the edges of the alphabet |
Andreas Stötzner
Room 3 | Perception | 45 minutes
On the edge of legibility
Blackletters |
Hugo Cavalheiro d'Alte
10:15 – 10:45
30 minutes
Coffee Break
10:45 – 11:30
Main hall | Letter | 45 minutes
Fonts don't come from nothing |
Jean François Porchez
Room 2 | World | 45 minutes
I live at the edge of the universe like everybody else |
Catherine Griffiths
Room 3 | World | 45 minutes
Harmony of type mixture in Japanese typography |
Masayuki Yamamoto
11:30 – 12:15
Main hall | World | 45 minutes
Aleph=X
Hebrew type on the edge |
Adi Stern
Room 2 | Perception | 45 minutes
How does the irregularity of letters affect reading? |
Luciano Perondi
Room 3 | Technology | 45 minutes
Start Photofont with Photofont Start
Full-color bitmap fonts in Adobe Photoshop |
Adam Twardoch
12:15 – 13:00
Main hall | Technology | 45 minutes
FontLab Studio 5 for Mac OS X
A font editor for the 21st century |
Yuri Yarmola
Room 2 | Culture | 45 minutes
Making democracy visible |
Alan Záruba
13:00 – 14:29
89 minutes
Lunch Break
14:30 – 16:00
Main hall | | 90 minutes
ATypI General Member Assembly |
Jean François Porchez