TypeCon2024
Daily Schedule
Conference and events take place at Revolution Hall unless otherwise noted.
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Wed, 7/24: Meet & Greet
Thu–Sat, 7/25–27: Workshops
Thu, 7/25: Education Forum
Fri, 7/26: Main Program, Day 1
Sat, 7/27: Main Program, Day 2
REGISTRATION, GALLERY & MARKETPLACE HOURS
Thursday
Registration opens: 11:00a
Registration closes: 6:00p
Friday
Registration, Gallery, Marketplace open: 11:00a
Registration, Gallery, Marketplace close: 6:30p
Saturday
Registration, Gallery, Marketplace open: 11:00a
Registration closes: 4:00p
Gallery, Marketplace close: 5:30p
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, sponsored by Texas State University MFA/CD
Assembly Lounge at Revolution Hall
Event limited to Education Forum attendees only.
Your conference badge is required upon entry.
6:00p–9:00p | Future Fonts & Friends TypeCon Party
Outlet at 2500 NE Sandy Blvd Ste E, Portland, OR 97232
Your conference badge is required upon entry.
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–1:20p | Coffee Break & Book Signing
1:20p–1:40p | Typelandia
Hank Brentlinger
1:40p–2:00p | Typography as a Tool for Social Change: Unveiling the Power of Masthead Design in Chicano Publications
Alexandria Canchola & Joshua Duttweiler
2:00p–2:20p | Unveiling the Magic: Riso Printing as a Tool for Activism and Creativity
Elaine Lopez
2:20p–2:40p | Typography for culturally aware handwriting education
José Scaglione
2:40p–3:10p | Coffee Break
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
4:10p–4:30p | Coffee Break
4:30p–4:50p | Old Dusty Type
Marta Bernstein
4:50p–5:10p | Preserving your Research for The People!
Briar Levit
5:10p–5:50p | Catalyst Award Presentation
Raven Mo
5:50p–6:00p | Closing Remarks
7:30p–9:30p | SOTA Spacebar reception, sponsored by Positype
Jupiter Next Hotel
Your conference badge is required upon entry.
MAIN PROGRAM, DAY 2
11:50a–12:00p | Opening Remarks
SOTA Board
12:00p–12:30p | Ars Scribendi
Akiem Helmling & Sami Kortemäki
12:30p–12:50p | Coffee Break
12:50p–1:10p | Designed With Love
Amira Hegazy
1:10p–1:30p | BR20+: A Type/Cut/Screen/Print/Film/Show
Henrique Nardi & Marcos Mello
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 | How an African Writing System Got Its First Display Font
Mark Jamra and Neil Patel
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 | From Bricks to Pixels: The Evolution of Banna’i Kufic
Sajad Amini
5:00p–5:20p | Tessellated Square Kufic
Mamoun Sakkal
5:20p–5:40p | The problems type face with VR now
Min-Young Kim
5:40p–6:00p | Closing Remarks & Special Acknowledgments
7:00p–10:00p | TypeCon Farewell Party
SHOW BAR on the first floor of Revolution Hall
Your conference badge is required for the open bar.