This year’s conference program is nearly complete and we’re eager to share this preview of what you can expect. Once again, we’ve managed to gather together some of the brightest names in type and design to bring their experience, skill, and stories to TypeCon2015, including:
Dave Addey; Camila Afanador-Llach; Pouya Ahmadi; Joseph Alessio; David Ashley; Jan Ballard; Rob Barnes; Amir Berbić; Nancy Bernardo; Ivan Bettger; Scott Boms; Richard Brath; Jason Campbell; Meaghan Dee; Fahad A. Dhawi; John Downer; Rachel Elnar; Mark Fetkewicz; Lily Feinberg; Joe Galbreath; Victor Gaultney; Vicki Golden; Frank Grießhammer; Patrick Griffin; Paul Herrera; John Hudson; Paul D. Hunt; Richard Hunt; Akira Kobayashi; Alexandra Korolkova; Andrej Krátky; Mary Mashburn; Aoife Mooney; Shiva Nallaperumal; Julie Nauman-Mikulski; Meta Newhouse; Robb Ogle; Adam Osgood; Tom Parson; Max Phillips; Thomas Phinney; Stephen Rapp; Chad Reichert; Dan Rhatigan; Claudia Roeschmann; Steve Ross; Stuart Sandler; Rob Saunders; Rainer Erich Scheichelbauer; Georg Seifert; Paul Shaw; Nick Shinn; Radek Sidun; Stephen Simmerman; Mark Simonson; Gabriel Solomons; Miguel Sousa; Perrin Stamatis; Neil Summerour; Nikki Villagomez; Jason Wedekind; Douglas Wilson; and others to be announced.
Presentations and workshops will explore topics such as:
How culture affects typography; the history of non-latin typeface development at Adobe; building brands with type and architecture; making pulp paperbacks in the digital era; re-imagining Farsi writing systems; basketball uniform design; the future of font licensing; data visualization and type; lettering comics; monograms from the Gramlee collection; Czech type design; branding the church for millennials; double-sided wood type; kinetic typography; typographic exploration with Letraset; extending the type classroom; engaging students with on-demand printing; letterpress 101; creative mark making; whisky type; font troubleshooting; font production with Glyphs.app; and much, much more.
Keep an eye on the conference program, the education forum and workshop schedules, as well as the special events pages for the latest updates and additions.
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Grant Hutchinson
June 25, 2015
We’ve just confirmed that Lily Feinberg, Mark Simonson, and Neil Summerour will be joining Stuart Sandler and Patrick Griffin in a panel discussion on “Filmotype Junto — The First Font Cooperative”. The indubitable Scott Boms will moderate.
Grant Hutchinson
June 26, 2015
Hot lead and hot damn! David Ashley of David Ashley Studios and Tom Parson of Now It’s Up to You Press will join Jason Wedekind Genghis Kern as hosts of the Denver Letterpress Tour. This half-day event will take participants through the workings of four or five local letterpress shops. Details to be announced.
Grant Hutchinson
July 2, 2015
The latest addition to our line up is Typotheque designer and Fontstand cofounder, Andrej Krátky. He will be presenting “The History and Future of Font Licensing” during Saturday’s main program.
Grant Hutchinson
July 10, 2015
Unfortunately, Ben Truelove will not be presenting his talk “Letters & Fish” as part of the Sunday morning program after all. However, the good news is that Douglas Wilson — of Linotype: The Movie fame — will be speaking on “The Beautiful Island of San Serriffe”.
Grant Hutchinson
July 24, 2015
We’ve just confirmed that the irrepressible Roger Black will be joining John Downer and Akira Kobayashi for this year’s Type Crit. See the special events schedule for details.