Conference ATypI Antwerp 2018
ATypI Antwerp 2018
You’re invited to a celebration of all things typographic! Join us 11–15 September in Antwerp for ATypI 2018, the sixty-second annual conference of the non-profit Association Typographique Internationale. Five type-filled days and nights in this historic city will engage, entertain, and inspire you.
ATypI 2018 Antwerp
ATypI 2018 kicks off Tuesday, September 11, with a series of immersive craft and technical workshops, followed by the Forums/General Session and numerous special events from Wednesday to Saturday, September 12–15. The ATypI 2018 programme will be carefully curated by a diverse group of experts from a range of typographic fields, inviting attendees to explore a wide range of contemporary and historical topics from around the globe. The main conference will be presented at Antwerp’s historic Arenberg theatre, with workshop and special events held at a variety of venues around the city.
ATypI 2018 promises to be our biggest and brightest conference ever. If you love type, this is an event you won’t want to miss.
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| 09:30–09:50 |
Early Persian printing and typography in EuropeThis presentation discusses the birth of Persian printing and typography in Europe during the late 16th and early 17th centuries, a subject has so far has eluded rigorous investigation by historians. It draws on materials of the Medici Press and Propaganda Fide Press, which have not been presented publicly before in any typographic environment. The… Continue reading Early Persian printing and typography in Europe |
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| 09:10–09:30 |
Objet-typeThe French stencil letter The typical French stencil letter, product of a Didot-inflected country and made famous through its use by artists, architects, and designers, exemplifies the panache of much francophone industrial culture. The design remains available as sets of stencils made in France and as typefaces that capture its features more or less faithfully.… Continue reading Objet-type |
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| 18:30–18:45 |
Eye 94 [8000 One-Offs] film premiereATypI will present the continental European premiere of Adrian Harrison’s documentary 94 [8000 One-Offs]. This documentary short showcases the people and processes behind the making of Eye 94’s award-winning, digitally printed “variable data” cover that was published in the summer of 2017. 94 features footage of the magazine’s printing and binding at Pureprint, as well… Continue reading Eye 94 [8000 One-Offs] film premiere |
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| 17:30–18:00 |
Hi HoiHOI is the abbreviation of Higher Order Interpolation. By introducing this new perspective for font interpolation we can do things not achievable with traditional linear interpolation. HOI is a simple and “ready-to-use” solution to fully control our manually designed masters and interpolation. HOI is not only expanding the field in which fonts are designed and… Continue reading Hi Hoi |
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| 17:10–17:30 |
Building a new typographyTangible and intangible heritages of typographic practice in India India’s textual and typographic heritage can be considered in four stages influenced by economic and political development: precolonial, colonial, postcolonial, and liberal. Essentially an oral and manuscript culture, it can be argued that Indian typographic and publishing practice has absorbed Western typographic norms to such an… Continue reading Building a new typography |
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| 16:50–17:10 |
Digital legaciesA lifetime of type design tools, formats and projects The history of outline font editors spans some 40+ years, or the total of this speaker’s life. Ikarus, Pika, Fontographer, RoboFog, Type Art, FontStudio, TypeDesigner, FontLab, RoboFab, FontMaster, RoboFont, Glyphs, FontCreator – since the inception of outline-based font creation, type designers have employed a flurry of… Continue reading Digital legacies |
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| 16:30–16:50 |
The missing scripts projectUnicode 11.0 (June 2018) covers exactly 146 writing systems. That’s an important milestone for worldwide communication and typography. But what about the missing scripts? How many of them are still out there? What do they look like? In the first step of the Missing Scripts Project, we developed a typographic overview of all writing systems.… Continue reading The missing scripts project |
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| 15:40–16:00 |
Typewriter typefaces, dig into the past for future referenceHistory is full of hidden stories, but few stand the test of time. The stories behind typewriter font libraries are among those that remain invisible to many. In the best of cases, type specimens and original documentation are still accessible through historical archives. Some information on the subject comes from fields not clearly linked to… Continue reading Typewriter typefaces, dig into the past for future reference |
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| 15:20–15:40 |
Old Beer/New TypeJoin Fred Smeijers of TypeTailors and Jim Moran of the Hamilton Wood Type & Printing Museum for a typographic revival of one of the Plantin Moretus’ oldest posters, promoting – what else? – beer. The print, dating from the 17th century, represents one of the oldest posters in the museum’s collection. Using a series of… Continue reading Old Beer/New Type |
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| 15:00–15:20 |
The success of Jenson’s roman typeRicado Olocco presents his research on Nicolas Jenson’s roman type (Venice, 1470), introducing the procedures adopted in his research, based on photographic enlargements and on detailed analysis of printed type. This presentation will explore Jenson’s roman and its high design quality, both in the choice of letterforms and in their execution. This is easy to… Continue reading The success of Jenson’s roman type |
Adam Twardoch