TypeCon Daily Schedule

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Thu, 7/25: Education Forum
Fri, 7/26: Main Program, Day 1
Sat, 7/27: Main Program, Day 2

THURSDAY, JULY 25

EDUCATION FORUM

11:50a–12:00p | Opening Remarks
Sharon Oiga & Guy Villa Jr

Curricula & Pedagogy

12:00p–12:20p | Design Engagement with Indigenous Languages
Leo Vicenti

12:20p–12:40p | Visual Grammar: Teaching the Fundamentals of the Graphic Design Language
John Paul Dowling

12:40p–1:00p | Institutions Reproduce Themselves. It’s a Problem
David Cabianca

1:00p–1:10p | Q+A

1:10p–1:25p | Coffee Break

Analog, Digital, Post-digital

1:25p–1:45p | Process Potluck: Finding Joy & Meaning in the Act of Making
Kelsey Dusenka

1:45p–2:05p | Rendered Reality: Developing Experimental Type in Augmented Reality
Grace Spee

2:05p–2:25p | Typographer Research — Sculptural Letterforms
Annabelle Gould

2:25p–2:35p | Spatial Typography Design Education in the Post-digital Age
Jialun Wang

2:35p2–2:45p | Q+A

2:45p–3:00p | Coffee Break

Practical Frameworks

3:00p–3:20p | Strategies for Researching the History of Type
Paul Shaw

3:20p–3:30p | Rethinking Grid Systems in Adobe InDesign
Chris Swift

3:30p–3:50p | Type Speaks!: Developing Popular Media About Typography in the Classroom
Sean Schumacher & Lena Hall

3:50p–4:00p | Q+A

4:00p–4:15p | Coffee Break

Typography & Letterform Design

4:15p–4:35p | Gibberish to Shibboleth: A Graduate Thesis on Experimental Orthography and Multilingual, Multiscriptural Design
Liyang Zha

4:35p–4:45p | Typographic Culture
Rob McConnell, Hanna Rogers & Lan-Xi Lin

4:45p–4:55p | Unpacking the Emotional Power of Six-Word Memoir Posters
Jan Ballard

4:55p–5:15p | A Collaborative Amalgamation of Grapheme, Acronyms, Initialisms, Contractions & Crasis
Chad Reichert & Susan LaPorte

5:15p–5:25p | Q+A

5:25p–5:30p | Closing Remarks

5:30p–6:30p | Networking Cocktail Hour
Revolution Hall

FRIDAY, JULY 26

MAIN PROGRAM, DAY 1

11:45a–12:00p | Opening Remarks & State of the Union
Theresa Dela Cruz & Neil Summerour

12:00p–12:45p | Keynote
Neville Brody

12:45p–1:00p | Coffee Break

1:00p–1:20p | Typelandia
Hank Brentlinger

1:20p–1:40p | Typography as a Tool for Social Change: Unveiling the Power of Masthead Design in Chicano Publications
Alexandria Canchola & Joshua Duttweiler

1:40p–2:00p | Unveiling the Magic: Riso Printing as a Tool for Activism and Creativity
Elaine Lopez

2:00p–2:20p | Typography for culturally aware handwriting education
José Scaglione

2:20p–2:50p | Coffee Break

2:50p–3:10p | Unconfirmed Presentation
Unconfirmed Speaker

3:10p–3:30p | Printed matter? Money matter or digital wallet matter? Exploring Typeface Dynamics on Currency Design in Eastern and Western Cultures
Xiaojun Huang

3:30p–3:50p | Place-Based Typefaces
Mia Cinelli

3:50p–4:10p | Material Meaning: Making letters to make landscapes, weaving words to expose the mutuality of text.
Aoife Mooney

4:20p–4:40p | Coffee Break

4:40p–5:00p | BR20+ a Type/Cut/Screen/Print/Film/Show
Henrique Nardi & Mello Marcos

5:00p–5:20p | Old Dusty Type
Marta Bernstein

5:20p–5:40p | Preserving your Research for The People!
Briar Levit

5:40p–6:20p | Catalyst Award Presentation

7:30p–9:30p | SOTA Spacebar
Jupiter Next Hotel

SATURDAY, JULY 27

MAIN PROGRAM, DAY 2

11:50a–12:00p | Opening Remarks
SOTA Board

12:00p–12:30p | SOTA Special Presentation

12:30p–12:50p | Coffee Break

12:50p–1:10p | Designed With Love
Amira Hegazy

1:10p–1:30p | A History of Typography in 12 Album Covers
Anne Brown

1:30p–1:50p | Defend Corner Stores: Preserving the Vanishing Culture of Vernacular Hand-Painted Signage in the Commercial Settings of the Post-Katrina Landscape of New Orleans Through Typography and More
Anthony DelRosario

1:50p–2:10p | Activating Queer Archives: The Currency of Queer Material Culture
Sabid Ali

2:10p–2:40p | Coffee Break

2:40p–3:00p | European typographic proofreader: Typofix
Radek Sidun & Filip Blazek

3:00p–3:20p | The Color Era of Variable Fonts
Frida Medrano

3:20p–3:40p | A Bite-Sized Welcome to Unicode
Kamilé Demir

3:40p–4:00p | Ars Scribendi
Akiem Helmling & Sami Kortemäki

4:00p–4:20p | Coffee Break

4:20p–4:40p | Filling in the Gaps: Speculative Type History for an Underserved Script
Chris Skillern

4:40p–5:00p | How an African Writing System Got Its First Display Font
Mark Jamra and Neil Patel

5:00p–5:20p | From Bricks to Pixels: The Evolution of Banna’i Kufic
Sajad Amini

5:20p–5:40p | Tessellated Square Kufic
Mamoun Sakkal

5:40p–6:00p | CJK and Latin multiscript typography in VR+AR
Min-Young Kim

6:00p–6:10p | Closing Remarks & Special Acknowledgments

7:00p–10:00p | TypeCon Farewell Event