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Date Friday, October 30th 2020

The tipoGráfica Magazine and the Emergence of a Latin American Typography Community

This presentation examines the background, development, and influence of the Argentinian design and typography magazine tipoGráfica (1987–2007). The talk starts with a short introduction on the emergence of graphic design in Argentina and one of its most influential personalities and founder of tipoGráfica magazine, Rubén Fontana. This leads into an overview of the journal’s design,… Continue reading The tipoGráfica Magazine and the Emergence of a Latin American Typography Community

Date Friday, October 30th 2020

LEAD: Letterpress Educators of Art & Design

LEAD: Letterpress Educators of Art & Design fosters a network of letterpress educators to facilitate sharing of knowledge and expand connections in the community. We provide opportunities to engage discourse, advance research and scholarship, and work to expand understanding of the value of letterpress education as an essential practice in contemporary learning. Letterpress in higher… Continue reading LEAD: Letterpress Educators of Art & Design

Date Friday, October 30th 2020

Rescate de las itálicas de Griffo: Un estudio de la puesta en página de poesías / NEW SESSION!

With a focus on Francesco Griffo’s first work, this presentation shows the development of a typeface that contemplates three variables: roman, italic, and an italic with connections. With this typeface, it is possible to make a comparison between the simple italic and de-connected italic in order to understand it. The loss of connections between letters… Continue reading Rescate de las itálicas de Griffo: Un estudio de la puesta en página de poesías / NEW SESSION!

Date Friday, October 30th 2020

Wood Type – Historic and Interdisciplinary Practices in Letterpress Education

Wood type has a significant and historical impact on American letterpress printing, defining the current techniques and practices taught throughout universities today. Wood type is highly desired because it’s light, impactful, and has unique character traits. The challenge lies in the lack of accessibility to these typefaces. Wood type is rare and scarcely made today… Continue reading Wood Type – Historic and Interdisciplinary Practices in Letterpress Education

Date Friday, October 30th 2020

T]M20 Project: The adaptation of roman capitals construction to lowercase

This presentation will go through the process of a TypeMedia project, and will be a reflection on the roman alphabet, and the relation between uppercase and lowercase. The Latin script is a bicameral script, and uses two alphabets for a given language. Those two alphabets originally belonged to different ways of writing from different periods… Continue reading T]M20 Project: The adaptation of roman capitals construction to lowercase

Date Friday, October 30th 2020

Hennies Brothers Letterpress Printing Shop: Printing Outputs and Typographic Repertoire From Germany to Brazil

The first printing press was established in Brazil during 1808. Printing in São Paulo city started in 1827 and expanded into the early twentieth-century, enabling the city to be the main Brazilian editorial and printing centre. Many of the early São Paulo city printing shops were founded by German and Italian immigrants and produced printed… Continue reading Hennies Brothers Letterpress Printing Shop: Printing Outputs and Typographic Repertoire From Germany to Brazil

Date Friday, October 30th 2020

Reconsidering Revivals

One aspect of type design is firmly rooted in revivals. While revivals have incredible educational value, the practice of using them as a main pillar of the course work has several disadvantages. For one, it creates the impression that old typefaces are inherently good. Secondly, this isolates a certain demographic—white European men—as the creator of… Continue reading Reconsidering Revivals

Date Friday, October 30th 2020

A Tour of the Cary Graphic Arts Collection

The RIT Cary Graphic Arts Collection at RIT is one of the world’s premier libraries on graphic communication history and practices. Our growing library holds over 45,000 volumes, over 130 archival collections and a working collection of historic printing equipment. The Cary Collection’s mission is to advance an understanding and appreciation of the history of… Continue reading A Tour of the Cary Graphic Arts Collection