Programme
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Jost Hochuli will be conducting a round-table discussion and book presentation on Gutenberg-Galaxie Nr. 1, published by Günter Karl Bose and Julia Blume and designed by Andrea Bernscherer and Stephanie Marx (both students at the Hochschule).
Lectures
Lectures will include:
- The revival of the Linotype Arabic Typefaces and Arabic typography
- Frakturstreit! (Broken typefaces don't need fixing)
- Monotype and phototypesetting
- Futura - biography of a typeface
- Leipzig and Greek type design
- Irish Type / a German Connection
- OpenType font creation - what's new and different
- Resolution quality of typefaces for the web
- The Offizin Haag-Drugulin and its oriental and occidental typefaces
- Caslon and the English typographic tradition
- Imitated, copied, ripped off: type design today or whatever happened to the Code Morale
- The philosophy and practical development of DTL Fleischmann
- The ottoman roots of Arabic typography
- Broken images: Fraktur between faith & magic
Thursday 21 September
Registration and welcome reception from 17.00 followed by an informal evening with live jazz (till late) in the Moritzbastei, a 16th century fortress in the city centre.
Two pre-bookable pre-conference options throughout the day:
Independent Font Technology Forum and Collotype Printing Workshop
Friday 22 September
Two lecture tracks throughout the day plus a variety of discussions, workshops and practical demonstrations.
Evening: TDC Medal Presentation to Gunther Gerhard Lange followed by the ATypI Auction
Saturday 23 September
Two lecture tracks throughout the day plus a variety of discussions, workshops and practical demonstrations.
Gala evening at the Auerbachs Keller, immortalised in Goethe's Faust.
Sunday 24 September
Lectures, discussions, workshops and practical demonstrations all morning followed by the ATypI Annual General Assembly.
The conference will finish around 15.00 leaving the afternoon and evening free.