Conference timetable Please note that the two programme tracks are held in different locations, approximately one kilometre apart. Please allow yourself time to travel between the two sites. Thursday 21 September 2000 Time Werkstatten und Museum fur Druckkunst Leipzig Konsum 09:00 Registration for independant font technology forum (prebookable)   10:00   Introduction and welcome John Hudson, Tiro Typeworks, Canada 10:05   Microsoft Visual OpenType Layout Tool 1.0 demonstration Apurva Joshi, Microsoft Typography, USA 11:05   Adobe OpenType Font Developers Kit 1.3 deomstration Thomas Phinney, Adobe Systems USA 12:00 Lunch 12:45   FontLab 4.0 preview Yuri Yarmola, FontLab Developers Group, Russia 13:00   An XML interface for OpenType layout tables Just van Rossum, Letterror, Netherlands 14:05   Additions to Apple Glyph Processing John Jenkins, Apple Computer, USA 14:45 Coffee break 15:00   Font technology Q&A panel see forum page for details 17:00 Main conference registration and welcome reception   20:00 Jazz evening at Moritzbastei (prebookable) Friday 22 September 2000 Time Werkstatten und Museum fur Druckkunst Leipzig Konsum 08:30 Registration Coffee 09:15   Welcome to the conference Mark Batty [ATypI President], Sharon Irving [Executive Director], Erik Spiekermann [Co-Chair], Eckehart Schumacher-Gebler [Co-Chair] 09:45   The typographic treasures of the Museum fur Druckkunst in Leipzig Eckehart Schumacher-Gebler 10:30 Coffee 11:00 Demonstrations/ Workshops throughout the day Typography in the age of the lowercase e: e-mail, e-commerce, e-shopping, e-entertainment Kurt Weidermann, Germany 11:45 Futura – biography of a typeface Chris Burke, University of Reading, UK A primer on typeface protection Cynthia Hollandsworth, USA 12:30 Lunch 14:00 Monotype and phototypesetting Andrew Boag, UK Emotional_Digital: portraying international type designers Jürgen Siebert, Germany 15:00 Erik Spiekermann masterclass TBC Rainer Baginski, Germany 15:30 Coffee 16:00   The Offizin Haag-Drugulin and its Oriental and occidental typefaces Theo Neteler, Germany 16:30   Presentation of the TDC Medal to Günter Gerhard Lange at the Hochschule 18:30–20:30 ATypI auction Saturday 23 September 2000 Time Werkstatten und Museum fur Druckkunst Leipzig Konsum 08:30 Coffee Coffee 09:30 Demonstrations/ Workshops throughout the day Broken images: fraktur – between faith and magic Yvonne Schwemer-Sheddin 10:30   Frakturstreit! Broken typefaces don't need fixing A panel discussion 11:15 Coffee 11:30   Magazine typography in America Panel discussion 12:15 The sculpture of letters in steel: typographic punchcutting as an artform Dan Carr, Golgonooza Letter Foundry and Press, USA Imitated, copied, ripped off: type design today or whatever happened to the Code Morale Erik Spiekermann, Germany 13:00 Lunch 14:00 The Ottoman roots of Arabic typography Tom Milo, DecoType, Netherlands Aesthetics of the unfinished – thoughts about the attractiveness of manual work Ruedi Baur, Hochschule für Grafik und Buchkunst, Leipzig Germany 14:45 Leipzig and Greek type design Gerry Leonidas, University of Reading, UK Phoenix from the flames – the revival of the Linotype Arabic typefaces and typography Adil Allawi, Diwan Software, UK 15:30 Coffee 16:00 Caslon and the English typographic tradition, James Mosely, UK The philosophy and practical development of DTL Fleischmann Erhard Kaiser, Germany & Frank Blokland, Dutch Type Design, Netherlands 16:45–17:30 Round-table discussion and book presentation Jost Hochuli, Germany Teaching typography at the Bauhaus: Research as method Jay Rutherford, University of Weimar, Germany 16:00–18:00 Board meeting (at Konsum) 19:30 Gala Dinner in Auerbachs Keller (pre-bookable) Sunday 24 September 2000 Time Werkstatten und Museum fur Druckkunst Leipzig Konsum 08:00–10:00 Board meeting (at Konsum) 08:30 Coffee 09:15   OpenType font creation – what's new and different Yuri Yarmola, FontLab, Russia 10:00   The freetype project David Turner, Netherlands 10:45 Coffee 11:00 Irish type – a German connection Dermot McGuinne, Dublin Institute of Technology, Ireland RoboFog – take the bordomout of type design, add millions of choices Just van Rossum and Erik van Blokland, Letterror, Netherlands 11:45 Rare type specimans from the Deutsche Bucherei Eckehart Schumacher-Gebler & Gabriele Netsche, Germany A primer on typeface protection Cynthia Hollandsworth, USA 12:30 Lunch 14:00   ATypI AGM 15:00 Close T Page last updated Monday, September 18, 2000 Any problems please contact webadmin