Conference ATypI Montréal 2017
You’re invited to celebrate ATypI’s 60th anniversary! Join us 12–16 September in Montréal for ATypI 2017, the 61st annual conference of the non-profit Association Typographique Internationale. Five type-filled days and nights in this Canadian Sin City/City of Saints will engage, entertain, and inspire you.
ATypI was established in 1957 by Charles Peignot of France’s renowned Deberny & Peignot foundry. It’s fitting then, that for this major milestone, we’re headed to a grand location infused with French culture. The largest city in Quebec and second-largest municipality in Canada, Montréal is also the second-largest primarily French-speaking city (Paris is first, naturellement). Montréal is a UNESCO “City of Design” and home to the International Council of Graphic Design Associations (Icograda). The thriving commercial and tourism hub weathers some frosty winters, but residents and visitors alike delight at the RÉSO Underground City (La Ville Souterraine), a massive subterranean network linking the Metro with thousands of shops, restaurants, theatres, universities, cultural centers.
ATypI 2017 kicks off Tuesday, September 12, with a series of immersive craft and technical workshops, followed by the General Session and numerous special events from Wednesday to Saturday, September 13–16. The ATypI 2017 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 a around the globe. The main conference will be presented at the Université du Québec à Montréal (UQAM) in downtown Montréal, with workshop and special event venues to be announced in the coming months.
ATypI 2017 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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Code All Your Graphic Designs with PageBot, DrawBot and Variation FontsDid you ever wonder why existing design tools make you do so much repetitive work? Why is it difficult to get back to sketching once your design tools take over? This lecture will address sketching techniques; how to use the same content, parameters, and algorithms for magazines, posters, websites, specimens, graphs and identity manuals; live… Continue reading Code All Your Graphic Designs with PageBot, DrawBot and Variation Fonts |
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Marginalized TypographyAs typesetting became easier and cheaper in the age of photosetting and rub-down type, the increased access to a wide array of type styles enabled the growth of publishing in communities that previously had less access to the means of production. Coinciding with an era of social progress, small publications for gay audiences rose up… Continue reading Marginalized Typography |
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Sculpted surfacesFrom linocut to Bézier curves For more than four centuries, punchcutters designed their letterforms through superposing surfaces. The outside and counter shapes interact: a letter emerges. The tension resulting from these two very different elements is what makes the unique beauty of letterforms. Since the early 1900s, when type design and production became fully industrialized… Continue reading Sculpted surfaces |
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| 10:30–11:00 |
The Evolution of ElectraElectra (Mergenthaler Linotype, 1935), the second typeface designed by W.A. Dwiggins, is arguably his most innovative. But it did not begin that way. The origins of Electra can be traced back to lettering for books and magazines with a Baskervillean flavor. This talk will look at how those lettering efforts became the basis for type… Continue reading The Evolution of Electra |
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Opening Keynote: Parks, Schools and Theaters – Why I love designing for Public placesOpening Keynote sponsored by the Type Directors Club Fifteen years ago, Paula Scher made a conscious decision to avoid web work and devote herself to identity design and environmental graphics, and she has never regretted that decision. This presentation explores Scher’s initial ignorance as an environmental designer, and her naivety about how civic groups, not-for-profit… Continue reading Opening Keynote: Parks, Schools and Theaters – Why I love designing for Public places |