Typography Theory Practice
A one-day conference at Leeds School of Arts, Leeds Beckett University, on Saturday 25 October 2025 exploring how typographic theories and propositions can manifest in practice, can be used to explain practice, and become practice. Organised by Fraser Muggeridge, Professor of Design, Leeds Beckett University, this conference aims to bring typographic theory and practice closely together across a range of contexts and applications.
Tickets are now available via this link priced at £40.00 with a £20.00 concessionary rate for students and free tickets for Leeds Beckett University students and staff. The conference will run from 9.30am – 5pm with a complimentary lunch.
There are 210 tickets available.
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09:30–09:45
Cinema Professor Fraser Muggeridge
09:45–10:15
Cinema Ruth Blacksell Experimental Publishing: Alternative Networked Cultures & New Archival Initiatives
10:15–10:45
Cinema Joost Grootens P.73 – Deciphering the Page Number
11:15–11:45
Cinema Louise Paradis Designing in Two Languages: Typography and Language Policy in Quebec
Room 1 Hector Mangas Inter-cultural measurements of font weight
Room 2 Roy Chan Reviving “Hong Kong Type”: When archival Chinese movable type becomes contemporary practice
11:45–12:15
Cinema James Langdon Words and images combined
Room 1 Marta Guidotti The pursuit of reading comfort: the interplay between language diversity and typesetting
12:15–13:30
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13:30–14:00
Cinema Nahal Sheikh Soft Scripts: Urdu Typography and the “new ideal” of Postcolonial femininity in 20th century Pakistani Advertising
Room 1 David Cabianca Criticism from Within: Searching for Meaning in Graphic Design
Room 2 Filipe Campos Maximising Minimalism: Redefining Pixel Typography in the Digital Era
14:00–14:30
Cinema Chloé Motard Designing Tools for Accessibility
Room 1 Matthew Chrislip Types of translation and the translation of type
14:30–15:00
Cinema Julian Bittiner Edward Wright and the materiality of language
Room 1 Elena Veguillas Truman’s through practice
Room 2 Amrit Randhawa Typecaste: Victorian Typography as Visual Identity in British Bhangra
15:30–16:00
Cinema Ane Thon Knutsen The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly – Women in Modernist Publishing
Room 1 Matthias Kreutzer Typography & Migration: Form, Language, and Ideology in Local Printing Cultures
Room 2 Paul Finn What is a diagram? Or diagrammatic and typographic ways-of-knowing
16:00–16:30
Cinema Rebecca Ross Alphabetic Interventions
Room 1 Barrie Tullett Of Progress and Loss
Room 2 Holger Jacobs Working with the Unknown: Thoughts on a Parasitic and Symbiotic Typographic Practice
16:30–17:00
Cinema Professor Fraser Muggeridge
Leeds School of Arts
Enquiresf.muggeridge@leedsbeckett.ac.uk
Website design loosely based on two iconic studies on typographic theory:
Twyman, Michael. ‘Typography without Words.’ Visible Language XV (1981):5–12
Burnhill, Peter. ‘Dimensional Relationships in the Composition of Text.’ Stafford, Stafford College of Art and Design, 1970
Typeface is Publico Text Mono by Commercial Type An Endless Supply
