Sami De Giosa This moderated roundtable explores how calligraphic traditions across different cultures have shaped, informed, and been transformed by typography. Moving across historical and contemporary contexts, the discussion considers how letterforms transition between the hand, print, mechanical reproduction, and digital environments, and how these shifts affect visual language, cultural continuity, and design.
The panel approaches this relationship through different historical and contemporary perspectives, examining the emergence of new visual forms in response to modernity and reproduction, the work of practitioners who bridged calligraphic practice and the technical demands of typography, and contemporary revivals of calligraphic forms through type design, digital tools, and renewed engagement with craft.
Situated Between Voices and Times, the roundtable considers typography as a space of cultural translation, where inherited letterforms are adapted, standardized, reinterpreted, and carried into new visual futures.