ATypI 03 Vancouver:
Between Text & Reader
Updated 22 September 2003 [please note that speaker Kathleen Walkup has had to cancel]. Barring last minute cancellations, this programme is now final. The speaker sessions and workshops are listed on this page by theme. There is also a Track Programme, which shows the sessions as arranged by time and location.
Arabic typography
13:30 Saturday 27 September
A multilingual typographic manifestation of Beirut post-war popular culture
14:20 Saturday 27 September
How a chance discovery inspired the development of Arabic type technology
15:30 Saturday 27 September
Problems of Arabic typefaces
16:20 Saturday 27 September
What is Arabic typography?
Nadine Chahine, Linotype Library
Thomas Milo, DecoType
Mamoun Sakkal, Sakkal Fonts
12:00 Saturday 2 October
TBA
Book Design
13:30 Friday 26 September
Making books readable: type & book design
14:20 Friday 26 September
A series style for Penguin Classics
12:00 Saturday 2 October
TBA
Demonstration / Workshop
12:30 Saturday 27 September
Font sprint relay
US Men Shooting for Record at International Meet
Tal Leming, Type Supply
10:30 Sunday 28 September
New tools from FontLab
12:30 Sunday 28 September
Sculpting language: the art of typographic punchcutting
12:00 Saturday 2 October
TBA
Design & function
08:45 Saturday 27 September
A success story with non-experts
09:35 Saturday 27 September
The type is the message
10:30 Saturday 27 September
The psychology of word recognition
11:20 Saturday 27 September
Legibility in type design
13:30 Saturday 27 September
A new approach to typometry
14:20 Saturday 27 September
I can't read what you're saying
12:00 Saturday 2 October
TBA
Design & theory
10:30 Sunday 28 September
Beauty and the Beast
11:20 Sunday 28 September
The practice of theory in a profession of form
13:30 Sunday 28 September
When does the reader become the writer?
12:00 Saturday 2 October
TBA
Design for Canada
15:30 Saturday 27 September
Maclean’s Text: redesigning a national news magazine
Rod McDonald, Rod Mcdonald Typographic Design
16:20 Saturday 27 September
Against Helvetica
12:00 Saturday 2 October
TBA
Font business forum
09:35 Sunday 28 September
Steal this font
10:30 Sunday 28 September
Type marketing panel
Bill Davis, Ascender Corp.
Carima El-Behairy, P22 Type Foundry
Grant Hutchinson, Veer
Jeremy Tankard, Jeremy Tankard Typography
Nick Shinn, ShinnType
11:20 Sunday 28 September
Type, trends and fashion #2: The verdict
12:00 Saturday 2 October
TBA
Hebrew typography
13:30 Sunday 28 September
And God created text
14:20 Sunday 28 September
Alef-Beit: a typographic journey
12:00 Saturday 2 October
TBA
Keynote address
20:20 Thursday 25 September
The tangibility of meaning
12:00 Saturday 2 October
TBA
Lettering
16:20 Friday 26 September
Letters to die for: carved letterforms and the influence of their cultural context
10:30 Saturday 27 September
Lettering in Illustration
11:20 Saturday 27 September
The lettering art of Ben Shahn
12:00 Saturday 2 October
TBA
Making a mark
10:30 Sunday 28 September
Accents: a visual journey
11:20 Sunday 28 September
Neglected texts, resentful markets: the curious tale of Greek diacritics in a digital world
12:00 Saturday 2 October
TBA
Old & new digital
13:30 Friday 26 September
Twenty years of type design with the new technology
14:20 Friday 26 September
The science and (black) art of text layout in InDesign
16:20 Friday 26 September
Measuring the readability of ClearType
12:00 Saturday 2 October
TBA
Old & new metal
13:30 Saturday 27 September
Gill’s almost-Centaur, and other lost tales of ATF
14:20 Saturday 27 September
How to engineer a typeface: the Mergenthaler Linotype typeface collection
15:30 Saturday 27 September
Macintosh to melting pot
16:20 Saturday 27 September
Obsolete design becomes art: the revival of letterpress printing in North America
12:00 Saturday 2 October
TBA
Plenary session
08:45 Friday 26 September
Type for newspapers
09:35 Friday 26 September
Do it yourself type design
10:30 Friday 26 September
Information Design: a style, an approach, a necessity?
11:20 Friday 26 September
National characteristics in type design
12:00 Saturday 2 October
TBA
Reading the past
13:30 Friday 26 September
Rudolf Koch: letterer, type designer, teacher
14:20 Friday 26 September
On the shoulders of giants
15:30 Friday 26 September
Dwig and Griff in fits: the lessons of the Falcon
16:20 Friday 26 September
Duet for the design of letters: Geofroy Tory and Simon de Colines
08:45 Saturday 27 September
Beatrice Warde: the In-betweener
09:35 Saturday 27 September
Henk Krijger’s Raffia Initialen
10:30 Saturday 27 September
Avenir Next
11:20 Saturday 27 September
Irish type design: the Canadian connection
12:00 Saturday 2 October
TBA
Special presentations
15:30 Friday 26 September
Logos from A-to Z, corporate to camp
08:45 Sunday 28 September
An introduction to Chinese typography
09:35 Sunday 28 September
Adobe Illustrator adds advanced typography
12:00 Saturday 2 October
TBA
Type education forum
08:45 Sunday 28 September
Online typography education
09:35 Sunday 28 September
Type education thinktank
12:00 Saturday 2 October
TBA
Type off the page
08:45 Saturday 27 September
Anticipating the future of type: ICTs and the rebirth of the humanist in type
09:35 Saturday 27 September
Photofonts: creation, use and benefits
12:00 Saturday 2 October
TBA