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Date Thursday, May 11th 2023
Venue Salle 106

A Study of the Font Design and History of the Mongolian Script

The Mongolian script used by the Mongolian nationality in the northern border of China embodies pluralistic characteristics visually; letters of the Mongolian script originate from the Phoenician alphabet like most other alphabetic writing systems, but it runs in vertical columns of oriental style. Therefore, it is a typical example of the renaissance of regional civilization… Continue reading A Study of the Font Design and History of the Mongolian Script

Date Saturday, May 13th 2023
Venue Salle 106

Type Crit

Date Thursday, May 11th 2023
Venue Salle 106

Letters Speak With Different Tones

One of the main concerns of Arabic-Persian Type and Graphic designers, is the lack of a comprehensive classification for Arabic-Persian typefaces. Since the spreading of printing press in the Arab world by the first half of the 20th century, Arabic-Persian typographers, and design scholars learning, working and communicating without classification system. This deficiency creates misinformation… Continue reading Letters Speak With Different Tones

Date Saturday, May 13th 2023
Venue Salle 106

CryptoKit, a semantic map of blockchain technology

The CryptoKit project provides a visual mapping of blockchain technology and Web3 protocols to make them accessible to a wide audience. It includes an open source typeface of more than 200 pictograms of key blockchain terms. When paired with IBM Plex, these icons can be set up in didactic diagrams on the dedicated website (www.cryptokit.ch).… Continue reading CryptoKit, a semantic map of blockchain technology

Date Saturday, May 13th 2023
Venue Salle 106

Wander Type: Vieux Carré

Wander Type: Vieux Carré is part of a research project that investigates understudied and underrepresented typography found in the French Quarter in New Orleans, Louisiana. It is part of the Wander Type Project whose birth was first presented by my peers at ATypI in 2020 in the middle of the pandemic. I will present the… Continue reading Wander Type: Vieux Carré

Date Saturday, May 13th 2023
Venue Salle 106

Caractère Noël, 1951-1964: The manufacture of typographic discourse in France

Taking as a starting point the special issues of the magazine Caractère Noël (1951-1964) and Maximilien Vox’s dual role as editor-in-chief and artistic director, this work is based on the study of various editorial corpuses and archive collections. It aims to analyze the establishment of a space for public discussion around graphic design and the… Continue reading Caractère Noël, 1951-1964: The manufacture of typographic discourse in France

Date Saturday, May 13th 2023
Venue Salle 106

Exploring Commonality in Four Different Type Systems: Discovering how words in English, Mandarin, Hindi, and Urdu type can cross the cultures barriers

Since the beginning, from cave paintings to modern languages, humans have developed written forms to communicate using symbols to visually convey messages and meaning. In this study, four dramatically different languages will be explored and compared in terms of their unique rules. The four languages in particular are English, Mandarin, Hindi, and Urdu. This study… Continue reading Exploring Commonality in Four Different Type Systems: Discovering how words in English, Mandarin, Hindi, and Urdu type can cross the cultures barriers

Date Saturday, May 13th 2023
Venue Salle 106

Chinese Font Design and Application Trends in the 2020s

Foundertype is the world’s largest Chinese foundry and the largest foundry in China. While providing font services for many fields such as publishing, printing, packaging, advertising, Internet, software and hardware facilities through continuous font design, font development, font cooperation, customer service, and business association, Foundertype is also deeply observing the changing trends of the Chinese… Continue reading Chinese Font Design and Application Trends in the 2020s