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Date Friday, October 30th 2020

Legibility.info: Developing Inclusive Communication Design

Legibility.info, or leserlich.info, is an online guide to inclusive communication design for people with or without visual impairments. Depending on their individual circumstances, people have different needs regarding usability and the design of typefaces, typography, and images in both print and digital media. During a two-year R&D project, we worked with people affected by the… Continue reading Legibility.info: Developing Inclusive Communication Design

Date Friday, October 30th 2020

Real Typography Space

There is an abundance of virtual space around real text in digital typesetting that creates problems for designers. We at Adobe, have not only understood workflows around Font Size, Alignment, Spacing, and Selection but have created real solutions as well! Designers often change the character’s size by changing the font size but in reality, font… Continue reading Real Typography Space

Date Friday, October 30th 2020

Fostering Transcultural Competency Through Typography: A Case Study to Understand Cultural Heritage and Identity of China

Graphic Design is a human-centered, service-oriented profession where designers have a greater responsibility to be culturally aware and understand diversity, inclusion, and social constructs to create designs that are authentic and relevant to multicultural communities. It is imperative that design education adopts new methodologies to address transcultural learning. Design is a philosophy of life in… Continue reading Fostering Transcultural Competency Through Typography: A Case Study to Understand Cultural Heritage and Identity of China

Date Friday, October 30th 2020

Learn Typography Through Experimenting and Reflecting

The way in which we approach the teaching and learning process of typography is based on an experiential methodology and reflection. Students experiment with type and conduct practices using manual and digital techniques. The activity that Juan Arrausi and Eduard Vidiellia present was developed in the graphic design specialty, corresponding to the second year of… Continue reading Learn Typography Through Experimenting and Reflecting

Date Friday, October 30th 2020

Typo: Experimental Typography and the Book

The relationship between the book format and experimental typographic approaches can be examined from the mid-eighteenth century right through to the most recent contemporary examples. While advances in digital communication continue to prevail, this presentation explores how the book as an analogue format remains an important space for experimental typographic approaches. It shows how typographic… Continue reading Typo: Experimental Typography and the Book

Date Friday, October 30th 2020

Pliegos Chapbooks

A pliego was the earliest known European printed book format. The first pliego created was the Sibyllenbuch, and is believed to have been printed by Gutenberg in 1452 before the Gutenberg Bible. The project idea has to do with the uncovering of an old suitcase that had been abandoned in a family garage. Inside was… Continue reading Pliegos Chapbooks

Date Friday, October 30th 2020

Pick Me, Pick Me: Analyzing the Semantic Connotations of Typography Deployed in Genre Categories of the Netflix Catalogue

Typography observed in the genre classifications of the Netflix catalogue intentionally conveys the conventions of genre styles rendered to attract audience selection of film and television titles. Much has been written about the treatment of typography in the title sequences of films and television shows, yet an examination of typography as a collective enterprise within… Continue reading Pick Me, Pick Me: Analyzing the Semantic Connotations of Typography Deployed in Genre Categories of the Netflix Catalogue

Date Thursday, October 29th 2020

Karl Gerstner—A precursor of digital graphics?

In a retrospective view of Swiss graphic designer Karl Gerstner, it’s clear that his systematic and programmatic approach is frequently associated with contemporary digital design methods. In 2012, the Federal Office of Culture in Bern, Switzerland (Schweizer Bundesamt für Kultur), awarded Gerstner the Swiss Grand Prix for Design. The agency lauded Gerstner’s ability to seemingly… Continue reading Karl Gerstner—A precursor of digital graphics?

Date Wednesday, October 28th 2020

How Newspapers Familiarized Readers with the Latin Script during the Turkish Alphabet Reform

The Turkish alphabet reform is considered to be one of the most prominent alphabet shifts due to the pace of its introduction and implementation. Turkish was used in the Arabic script for over a thousand years until the reform in 1928 as part of Atatürk’s modernization program. During the four-month transition period, newspapers played a… Continue reading How Newspapers Familiarized Readers with the Latin Script during the Turkish Alphabet Reform

Date Tuesday, October 27th 2020

Storytelling and Visual Narrative through Experimental Typography

The aim of this workshop is to explore possibilities in storytelling and visual narrative by creative experimentation with typesetting parameters within specific restraints. Attendees will be tasked with depicting a given story only through typography, without using any illustrative imagery following the philosophy of “type as image.” An interesting story, which appears to be very… Continue reading Storytelling and Visual Narrative through Experimental Typography