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ATypI 08 St Petersburg
Programme
Sessions by location
Starts at 09:30, 17 September 2008,
at Beloselsky-Belozersky Palace, St Petersburg, Russia
Preliminary content, subject to change.
Other
Plenary session | Friday 19 September | 18:30 – 19:30 | Theme Other | 60 minutes
Evening Event |
ATypI attendees
Party | Saturday 20 September | 20:00 – 22:00 | Theme Other | 120 minutes
ATypI 08: the party |
ATypI attendees
Palace A
TypeTech TTW1 | Wednesday 17 September | 09:30 – 09:40 | Theme TypeTech by ATypI | 10 minutes
TypeTech Forum
Welcome |
Thomas Phinney
TypeTech TT01 | Wednesday 17 September | 09:40 – 10:30 | Theme TypeTech by ATypI | 50 minutes
OpenType 1.6 developments |
Si Daniels, Thomas Phinney
TypeTech TT02 | Wednesday 17 September | 11:00 – 11:50 | Theme TypeTech by ATypI | 50 minutes
TrueType hinting
— do we still need it? |
Emil Yakupov
TypeTech TT03 | Wednesday 17 September | 12:00 – 12:50 | Theme TypeTech by ATypI | 50 minutes
The role of typeface design within the scientific study of legibility |
Karin von Ompteda
TypeTech TT04 | Wednesday 17 September | 14:00 – 14:50 | Theme TypeTech by ATypI | 50 minutes
From laser printer to offset press
A one-way road |
Jose Scaglione
TypeTech TT05 | Wednesday 17 September | 15:00 – 15:50 | Theme TypeTech by ATypI | 50 minutes
Tech of Web fonts implementation |
Thomas Phinney, Si Daniels
TypeTech TT06 | Wednesday 17 September | 16:20 – 17:10 | Theme TypeTech by ATypI | 50 minutes
Issues in Chinese text design |
Keith Chi-hang Tam
TypeTech TTW2 | Thursday 18 September | 09:30 – 09:40 | Theme TypeTech by ATypI | 10 minutes
TypeTech Forum
Welcome |
Thomas Phinney
TypeTech TT07 | Thursday 18 September | 09:40 – 10:30 | Theme TypeTech by ATypI | 50 minutes
African fonts and the open source community |
Denis Moyogo Jacquerye
TypeTech TT08 | Thursday 18 September | 11:00 – 11:50 | Theme TypeTech by ATypI | 50 minutes
Grammar of proto-typographic Arabic Naskh |
Thomas Milo
TypeTech TT09 | Thursday 18 September | 12:00 – 12:50 | Theme TypeTech by ATypI | 50 minutes
Tasmeem
Typeface design in Arabic |
Titus Nemeth
TypeTech TT10 | Thursday 18 September | 14:00 – 14:50 | Theme TypeTech by ATypI | 50 minutes
Font Remix Tools |
Tim Ahrens
TypeTech TT11 | Thursday 18 September | 15:00 – 15:50 | Theme TypeTech by ATypI | 50 minutes
Automation in font production |
Attila Korap
TypeTech TT12 | Thursday 18 September | 16:20 – 17:10 | Theme TypeTech by ATypI | 50 minutes
Using your EULA to protect your fonts |
Ted Harrison
Meeting M01 | Thursday 18 September | 17:30 – 18:00 | Theme Other | 30 minutes
Country Delegates
Meeting |
Gerry Leonidas
Panel session P01 | Thursday 18 September | 18:00 – 18:45 | Theme Education | 45 minutes
Researchers in typography and typeface design
Poster sessions |
Gerry Leonidas
Keynote session K01 | Thursday 18 September | 19:00 – 19:50 | Theme The Old · The New | 50 minutes
In praise of the letter
Keynote Presentation |
Oleg Genisaretskiy
Plenary session A00 | Friday 19 September | 09:00 – 09:30 | Theme Other | 30 minutes
Welcome and opening address |
John D. Berry, Vladimir Yefimov
Session A01 | Friday 19 September | 09:40 – 10:30 | Theme Revivals | 50 minutes
Type revivals
Where did they come from? where have they been? Where are they going? |
Jerry Kelly
Session A02 | Friday 19 September | 11:00 – 11:50 | Theme Revivals | 50 minutes
Revivals revisited |
John Downer
Session A03 | Friday 19 September | 12:00 – 12:50 | Theme Revivals | 50 minutes
Scotch Modern
Fact and fiction |
Nick Shinn
Session A04 | Friday 19 September | 14:00 – 14:50 | Theme Personalities | 50 minutes
50 women typographers in 50 years of ATypI |
Susanne Dechant
Session A05 | Friday 19 September | 15:00 – 15:50 | Theme Personalities | 50 minutes
From Univers towards Avenir
On the professional career of Adrian Frutiger |
Heidrun Osterer
Session A06 | Friday 19 September | 16:20 – 17:10 | Theme Methods | 50 minutes
Absolutely no type
The threshold of a new era |
Paul Luna
Entertainment A07 | Friday 19 September | 17:20 – 18:20 | Theme Other | 60 minutes
Typophile Film Festival |
Typophile
Session A08 | Saturday 20 September | 09:30 – 10:20 | Theme History | 50 minutes
A thousand years ago...
Letterforms in inscriptions from the 10th, 11th and 12th centuries |
Gerard Unger
Session A09 | Saturday 20 September | 10:30 – 11:20 | Theme Revivals | 50 minutes
Now, then and perception |
Frank E. Blokland
Session A10 | Saturday 20 September | 11:40 – 12:30 | Theme World | 50 minutes
General issues of multi-script typography |
David Březina
Session A11 | Saturday 20 September | 14:00 – 14:50 | Theme Screen | 50 minutes
“...mean bastards, even though Matthew did some cool stuff for them...” |
Si Daniels
Panel session A12 | Saturday 20 September | 15:00 – 15:50 | Theme Screen | 50 minutes
The war over web fonts
Panel discussion |
Roger Black, Håkon Wium Lie, Thomas Phinney, Si Daniels, Bert Bos
Session A13 | Saturday 20 September | 16:20 – 17:10 | Theme Screen | 50 minutes
PROGRAM UPDATE: Type and the Web
What are we going to do? |
Roger Black
Session A14 | Saturday 20 September | 17:20 – 18:10 | Theme Personalities | 50 minutes
PROGRAM UPDATE: Working with two type legends, Hermann Zapf and Adrian Frutiger
How they changed my life and how I changed theirs |
Akira Kobayashi
Plenary session | Sunday 21 September | 09:15 – 10:15 | Theme Other | 60 minutes
ATypI AGM |
ATypI members
Session A15 | Sunday 21 September | 10:40 – 11:30 | Theme Methods | 50 minutes
Optical sizes |
Tim Ahrens
Session A16 | Sunday 21 September | 11:40 – 12:30 | Theme Methods | 50 minutes
Pac-Man fever, quantum mechanics and the design of digital type |
Ken Barber, Tal Leming
Session A17 | Sunday 21 September | 14:00 – 14:50 | Theme Methods | 50 minutes
Contextual alternatives
The next big opportunity for enhancing Latin text face quality |
Eben Sorkin
Plenary session | Sunday 21 September | 15:00 – 15:15 | Theme Other | 15 minutes
Closing plenary |
ATypI attendees
Palace B
TypeTech FLW | Wednesday 17 September | 09:30 – 09:40 | Theme TypeTools by FontLab | 10 minutes
TypeTools Forum by FontLab
Welcome |
Ted Harrison
TypeTech FL01 | Wednesday 17 September | 09:40 – 10:30 | Theme TypeTools by FontLab | 50 minutes
Photofonts in print
Colorful typography using InDesign and QuarkXPress |
Ted Harrison
TypeTech FL02 | Wednesday 17 September | 11:00 – 11:50 | Theme TypeTools by FontLab | 50 minutes
Family matters
Making fonts work as a family using FontLab Studio |
Adam Twardoch
TypeTech FL03 | Wednesday 17 September | 12:00 – 12:50 | Theme TypeTools by FontLab | 50 minutes
Crystal clear
Optimizing font screen quality in FontLab Studio |
Adam Twardoch
TypeTech FL04 | Wednesday 17 September | 14:00 – 14:50 | Theme TypeTools by FontLab | 50 minutes
Setting web typography free
Using custom Photofont and OpenType fonts on the web |
Adam Twardoch
TypeTech FL05 | Wednesday 17 September | 15:00 – 15:50 | Theme TypeTools by FontLab | 50 minutes
Letterfitting in FontLab Studio
Glyph metrics and kerning: present and future |
Yuri Yarmola
TypeTech FL06 | Wednesday 17 September | 16:20 – 17:10 | Theme TypeTools by FontLab | 50 minutes
Scotch Modern backstage
OpenType case study of a pan-European text font family |
Adam Twardoch
TypeTech FMW | Thursday 18 September | 09:30 – 09:40 | Theme TypeTools by DTL | 10 minutes
TypeTools Forum by DTL
Welcome |
Frank E. Blokland
TypeTech FM01 | Thursday 18 September | 09:40 – 10:30 | Theme TypeTools by DTL | 50 minutes
Automating font production processes |
Jürgen Willrodt, Frank E. Blokland
TypeTech FM02 | Thursday 18 September | 11:00 – 11:50 | Theme TypeTools by DTL | 50 minutes
Automating type design processes |
Frank E. Blokland
TypeTech FM03 | Thursday 18 September | 12:00 – 12:50 | Theme TypeTools by DTL | 50 minutes
Editing OpenType fonts
OT Master |
Jürgen Willrodt
TypeTech FM04 | Thursday 18 September | 14:00 – 14:50 | Theme TypeTools by DTL | 50 minutes
Re-inventing font technology |
Peter Rosenfeld
TypeTech FM05 | Thursday 18 September | 15:00 – 15:50 | Theme TypeTools by DTL | 50 minutes
Crossing borders
The best of different worlds |
Frank E. Blokland
TypeTech FM06 | Thursday 18 September | 16:20 – 17:10 | Theme TypeTools by DTL | 50 minutes
Reception
To celebrate a long lasting co-operation |
Frank E. Blokland, Peter Rosenfeld
Meeting M02 | Thursday 18 September | 17:30 – 18:00 | Theme Other | 30 minutes
Conference Speakers
Meeting |
ATypI attendees
Session B01 | Friday 19 September | 09:40 – 10:30 | Theme Cyrillic | 50 minutes
Cyrillic letter in Russian culture |
Yuri Gherchuk
Session B02 | Friday 19 September | 11:00 – 11:50 | Theme Cyrillic | 50 minutes
Reforming writing, reforming typography, innovation by decree?
Digital collection of the first books printed in Civil Type |
Irina Fomenko
Session B03 | Friday 19 September | 12:00 – 12:50 | Theme Cyrillic | 50 minutes
Vernacular domestic lettering
Cyrillic alphabet and Russian typographic tradition |
Olga Florenskaya
Session B04 | Friday 19 September | 14:00 – 14:50 | Theme Cyrillic | 50 minutes
Discovering the Cyrillic letterforms of Cheltenham through the century |
Tagir Safayev
Session B05 | Friday 19 September | 15:00 – 15:50 | Theme Cyrillic | 50 minutes
A walk along the fence |
Alexandra Korolkova
Session B06 | Friday 19 September | 16:20 – 17:10 | Theme Cyrillic | 50 minutes
Role and significance of calligraphy
in contemporary graphic design education |
Petr Chobyt'ko
Session B07 | Friday 19 September | 17:20 – 18:10 | Theme Cyrillic | 50 minutes
Art of the First Letter
Russian decorative book initial used in 15th–early 18th centuries |
Alexey Dombrovskiy
Session B08 | Saturday 20 September | 09:30 – 10:20 | Theme Cyrillic | 50 minutes
Modern serif in Russia |
Dmitry Kirsanov
Session B09 | Saturday 20 September | 10:30 – 11:20 | Theme Cyrillic | 50 minutes
Typography in the student livre artiste projects
Contemporary typography in the book studies. Based on the experience of St. Petersburg State University (Faculty of Philology and Arts) |
Konstantin Startsev
Session B10 | Saturday 20 September | 11:40 – 12:30 | Theme Cyrillic | 50 minutes
Book of letters
The parting from the era of wood type |
Maxim Gurbatov, Anna Chaykovskaya
Session B11 | Saturday 20 September | 14:00 – 14:50 | Theme Cyrillic | 50 minutes
Resurrection pencil
What I learned from the “marks that speak” |
Timothy Donaldson
Session B12 | Saturday 20 September | 15:00 – 15:50 | Theme Education | 50 minutes
A few things I’ve learned about typeface design |
Gerry Leonidas
Session B13 | Saturday 20 September | 16:20 – 17:10 | Theme Arabic | 50 minutes
Ottoman calligraphy from a modern perspective |
Bengisu Keleşoğlu, İpek Torun
Session B14 | Saturday 20 September | 17:20 – 18:10 | Theme Cyrillic | 50 minutes
Script typefaces and graphology |
Anna Shmeleva
Session B15 | Sunday 21 September | 10:40 – 11:30 | Theme World | 50 minutes
Fonts for every language
New types for cultural treasures |
J. Victor Gaultney
Session B16 | Sunday 21 September | 11:40 – 12:30 | Theme Greek | 50 minutes
An illustrated history of Greek book design
15th–20th century |
George D. Matthiopoulos
Session B17 | Sunday 21 September | 14:00 – 14:50 | Theme Methods | 50 minutes
The Urge to Rule
Constructed Letterforms from Renaissance to Tomorrow |
Oliver Linke
W1
Workshop W01 | Wednesday 17 September | 09:30 – 13:00 | Theme Workshop | 210 minutes
Arabic Kufi script
Workshop part 1 |
Pascal Zoghbi
Workshop W02 | Wednesday 17 September | 14:00 – 17:30 | Theme Workshop | 210 minutes
Kalligraphos
Experimental calligraphy workshop |
Yomar Augusto
Workshop W03 | Thursday 18 September | 09:30 – 13:00 | Theme Workshop | 210 minutes
Lettering
Workshop |
John Downer
Workshop W01 | Thursday 18 September | 14:00 – 17:30 | Theme Workshop | 210 minutes
Arabic Kufi script
Workshop part 2 |
Pascal Zoghbi
W2
Workshop W05 | Wednesday 17 September | 09:30 – 17:00 | Theme Workshop | 450 minutes
Linotype type design student workshop
Closed session, part 1 |
Akira Kobayashi, Nadine Chahine
Workshop W05 | Thursday 18 September | 09:30 – 12:00 | Theme Workshop | 150 minutes
Linotype type design student workshop
Closed session, part 2 |
Akira Kobayashi, Nadine Chahine
Demonstration D01 | Thursday 18 September | 12:00 – 13:00 | Theme Education | 60 minutes
Linotype type design student demonstration
Public demonstration |
Akira Kobayashi, Nadine Chahine
Workshop W04 | Thursday 18 September | 14:00 – 17:30 | Theme Workshop | 210 minutes
Latin+Cyrillic, designing multiscript fonts
Workshop in Russian |
Vladimir Yefimov