FRIDAY AM PLENARY SESSION (Westin Bayshore venue)
  Time Speaker PresentationTitle
  08:45 – 09:25 Roger Black Type for newspapers
  09:35 – 10:15 Underware Do it yourself type design
  10:15 – 10:30 Break
  10:30 – 11:10 Erik Spiekermann Information Design: a style, an approach, a necessity?
  11:20 – 12:00 Gerard Unger National characteristics in type design
  12:00 Bus to ECIAD venue
             
  FRIDAY PM TRACK A (Room 328, South Building) TRACK B (Room 260, North Building) TRACK C (Room 312E, South Building)
  Time Speaker PresentationTitle Speaker PresentationTitle Speaker PresentationTitle
  12:30 – 13:30 Lunch Lunch Lunch
  13:30 – 14:10 Gerald Cinamon Rudolf Koch: letterer, type designer, teacher John Berry Making books readable: type & book design Torsten Buck Twenty years of type design with the new technology
  14:20 – 15:00 Jean-Franηois Porchez On the shoulders of giants Andrew Barker A series style for Penguin Classics Eric Menninga The science and (black) art of text layout in InDesign
  15:00 – 15:30 Break Break Break
  15:30 – 16:10 Kent Lew Dwig and Griff in fits: the lessons of the Falcon Doyald Young Logos from A-to Z, corporate to camp Kevin Larson Measuring the readability of ClearType
  16:20 – 17:00 Kay Amert Duet for the design of letters: Geofroy Tory and Simon de Colines Ken Hughes Letters to die for: European inscriptional letterforms  
  17:00 – 17:30 Auction Preview (Break) Break Break
  17:30 – 19:30 Auction    
  SATURDAY TRACK A (Room 328, South Building) TRACK B (Room 260, North Building) TRACK C (Room 312E, South Building) WORKSHOP (Room 269, North Building)  
  Time Speaker PresentationTitle Speaker PresentationTitle Speaker PresentationTitle Speaker PresentationTitle Note  
  08:45 – 09:25 Shelley Greundler Beatrice Warde: the In-betweener Marc Sullivan A success story with non-experts Russell Taylor Anticipating the future of type: ICT’s and the rebirth of the humanist in type    
  09:35 – 10:15 Peter Enneson Henk Krijger’s Raffia Initialen Lucie Lacava The type is the message Frank Jonen Photofonts: creation, use and benefits  
  10:15 – 10:30 Break Break Break  
  10:30 – 11:10 Akira Kobayashi Avenir Next Kevin Larson The psychology of word recognition Mike Davidson Lettering in Illustration  
  11:20 – 12:00 Dermot McGuinne Irish type design: the Canadian connection Gerard Unger Legibility in type design Gerald Cinamon The lettering art of Ben Shahn  
  12:00 – 13:30 Lunch Lunch Lunch John Downer, Ken Barber, Christian Schwartz, Tal Leming Font sprint relay Begins at 12:30.
  13:30 – 14:10 Yasmine Nashabe Taan A multilingual typographic manifestation of Beirut post-war popular culture Jorge de Buen U. A new approach to typometry Thomas Phinney Gill’s almost-Centaur, and other lost tales of ATF
  14:20 – 15:00 Thomas Milo How a chance discovery inspired the development of Arabic type technology Joe Clark I can't read what you're saying Lawrence Oppenberg How to engineer a typeface: the Mergenthaler Linotype typeface collection
  15:00 – 15:30 Break Break Break
  15:30 – 16:10 Nadine Chahine Problems of Arabic typefaces Donna Braggins, Rod McDonald Maclean's Text: redesigning a national news magazine Jim Rimmer Macintosh to melting pot
  16:20 – 17:00 Panel (John Hudson moderator) What is Arabic typography? Nick Shinn Against Helvetica Peter Bartle & Jane Merks Obsolete design becomes art: the revival of letterpress printing in North America
     
  SUNDAY TRACK A (Room 328, South Building) TRACK B (Room 260, North Building) TRACK C (Room 312E, South Building) WORKSHOP (Room 269, North Building)
  Time Speaker PresentationTitle Speaker PresentationTitle Speaker PresentationTitle Speaker PresentationTitle Notes
  08:45 – 09:25 Keith Tam An introduction to Chinese typography   Carolina de Bartolo Online typography education  
  09:35 – 10:15 Bill Davis Steal this font Thomas Phinney Adobe Illustrator adds advanced typography Gerry Leonidas (moderator) Type education thinktank
  10:15 – 10:30 Break Break Break
  10:30 – 11:10 Panel (Nick Shinn moderator) Type marketing panel Steve Rigley Beauty and the Beast Victor Gaultney Accents: a visual journey Yuri Yamola New tools from FontLab Ends at approx. 11:30.
  11:20 – 12:00 Anthony Cahalan Type, trends and fashion #2: The verdict John Calvelli The practice of theory in a profession of form Gerry Leonidas Neglected texts, resentful markets: the curious tale of Greek diacritics in a digital world  
  12:00 – 13:30 Lunch Lunch Lunch Dan Carr Sculpting language: the art of typographic punchcutting Begins at 12:30; ends at approx. 2:00
  13:30 – 14:10 John Hudson And God created text Evripides Zantides When does the reader become the writer?  
  14:20 – 15:00 Martin Mendelsberg Alef-Beit: a typographic journey    
  15:00 – 15:30 Break Break Break
  15:30 – 16:10 Annual General Assembly