Typography Theory Practice
Leeds Beckett University
Saturday 25 October 2025

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.

Watch the presentations from Typography Theory Practice 2024 here.

🐸📚👀 PROGRAMME 👀📚🐸

09:00–09:30

Arrival

09:30–09:45
Cinema

Professor Fraser Muggeridge
Welcome

09:45–10:15
10:15–10:45
10:45–11:15

Break

11:15–11:45
11:45–12:15
12:15–13:30

🥑🍆🥔🥕🌽🌶️🫑🥒🥬🥦🧄🧅🥜🫘🌰🫚🫛🍄‍🟫 Lunch 🥑🍆🥔🥕🌽🌶️🫑🥒🥬🥦🧄🧅🥜🫘🌰🫚🫛🍄‍🟫 Lunch 🥑🍆🥔🥕🌽🌶️🫑🥒🥬🥦🧄🧅🥜🫘🌰🫚🫛🍄‍🟫 Lunch 🥑🍆🥔🥕🌽🌶️🫑🥒🥬🥦🧄🧅🥜🫘🌰🫚🫛🍄‍🟫 Lunch 🥑🍆🥔🥕🌽🌶️🫑🥒🥬🥦🧄🧅🥜🫘🌰🫚🫛🍄‍🟫

13:30–14:00
14:00–14:30
14:30–15:00
15:00–15:30

Break

15:30–16:00
16:00–16:30
16:30–17:00
Cinema

Professor Fraser Muggeridge
Closing Remarks

Leeds School of Arts
Leeds Beckett University
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Fraser Muggeridge, Professor of Design, Leeds Beckett University
f.muggeridge@leedsbeckett.ac.uk

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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

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