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Johannes Bergerhausen, Morgane Pierson

Date Wednesday, October 28th 2020

Unearthing the Roots of Hangul: Korean Woodblock Type and Their Digital Revivals

Korea’s native script Hangul was created by King Sejong in 1446, and was traditionally written vertically with modern geometric forms. We will first explore the history of Hangul since its invention, noting key characteristics with print examples of the brush calligraphy used by the members of the royal palace and the common people. The original… Continue reading Unearthing the Roots of Hangul: Korean Woodblock Type and Their Digital Revivals

Date Wednesday, October 28th 2020

Contemporizing a Historic Script: The Development of Adinatha Tamil Brahmi Typeface and its Community Impact

This presentation narrates the story of the creation of a modern typeface, Adinatha Tamil Brahmi, for the historic Tamil-Brahmi script and the wide-spread impact it had on the community in terms of script revival. Tamil-Brahmi is a regional adaptation of the historical Brahmi script that was used to write the Old Tamil language between 300… Continue reading Contemporizing a Historic Script: The Development of Adinatha Tamil Brahmi Typeface and its Community Impact

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

Typomotif: From Motif to Typography

This workshop aims to create contemporary alphabets inspired by the Arabic Square Kufic and the prehistoric motif design to form typomotifs. Participants will design words that imply positivity to construct poster designs.

Date Tuesday, October 27th 2020

Power of Ink: Gujarati Calligraphy

Gujarati is one of the most spoken regional languages of India. This language has its origin from old Indian languages such as Brahmi and Prakrit, and the script of the language is derived from Devanagari script. Its roots can also be found in the Jain manuscripts. Essentially, it was a script to keep the account,… Continue reading Power of Ink: Gujarati Calligraphy

Date Tuesday, October 27th 2020

Ranjana Script Calligraphy

Ranjana script is one of the most beautiful calligraphy scripts in the world. It is also known as Lantsa. It is not only the script of the indigenous group Newars, but duly important to all Nepalese as well. Ranjana script was used to write Sanskrit, Nepalbhasa, Maithili, and various Nepali languages.  Ranjana must be written… Continue reading Ranjana Script Calligraphy

Date Tuesday, October 27th 2020

Go Figure! The Structure of Indo-Arabic Numerals with Brush Calligraphy

Indo-Arabic numerals are not usually studied as thoroughly as the letters of many scripts, despite being used on all continents and being truly multicultural. During this workshop, we will cover some basic aspects of calligraphy with brushes and square and pointed pens. We will study the origin of the numerals and why they seem to… Continue reading Go Figure! The Structure of Indo-Arabic Numerals with Brush Calligraphy

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Hanzi-Graphy

Mariko Takagi talks about a research project started in 2011 to bridge the two “contrary” writing systems by typographic means. From the 2013 ATypI conference in Amsterdam. As soon as we visualise language in a written form we make use of typographic methods, wittingly or unwittingly. It starts by selecting a typeface, setting the font… Continue reading Hanzi-Graphy

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Making Mongolian & Balinese work in digital type

In this presentation, Jo De Baerdemaeker & Rainer Scheichelbauer explain the way traditional Mongolian and Balinese scripts work and which technical challenges they pose. The presentation explains the way traditional Mongolian and Balinese scripts work and which technical challenges they pose. It goes on to show the status quo of digital Mongolian and Balinese, from… Continue reading Making Mongolian & Balinese work in digital type