Tickets now available:
Typography Theory Practice
A one-day conference at Leeds School of Arts, Leeds Beckett University, organised by Professor Fraser Muggeridge, on Saturday 19 October 2024 exploring how typographic theories and propositions can manifest in practice, can be used to explain practice, and become practice. The conference aims to bring typographic theory and practice closely together across a range of contexts and applications.
We are delighted to share that Professor Paul Luna, author of ‘Typography: A Very Short Introduction’ (Oxford University Press), will present a keynote lecture.
The conference will be organised around three themes: Type, Typography, and Teaching. The speakers will be announced at the end of July.
Speakers
LUIZA DALE
Desire paths: the potential for different footnotes
CATHERINE DIXON
Admit constraints: then having
admitted, fill with discovery
ELA EGIDY
Bodies and Surfaces
STEFAN ELLMER
Against typography, part 1:
Lettering and type
ASLAK GURHOLT
Dashes and hyphens
SIMON THIEFES AND JOSHUA HAYMANN
Opaque tools — Questioning the use of mainstream layout software
TOMÁŠ HLAVA
Amelia
OTT KAGOVERE
Doing the wrong thing for the right reasons
ABEERA KAMRAN
Designing Urdu newspapers across time and technologies
ESTHER LAFORGE
Conceiving Iconographie Symbolique, Pierre Faucheux’s Theorization of his Typographical Practice
JAMES LANGDON
Type size by surface area
FANGZHENG LI
Visual Harmony: Compromising Mixed Script Typesetting in Academic Papers
HECTOR MANGAS ALFONSO
Enhancing Distance Reading for Low Vision
CLAIRE MASON
The Oscillating Grid
DIANE MIKHAEL
De-centring the Typographic Hierarchy in the context of Pluriverse/Bilingual typographic texts
LUIS LLORÉNS PENDÁS
From single pages to the double page spreads…
ENAV SHARON-NITZAN
Jewish Nationalism and the Revival of the Hebrew Typefaces
SALLY THURER
Shattering Gridlock: The Felt Axis Liberates Intuitive Designers
CIARAN WALSH
A Victim of its Own Success
AIDEN WINTERBURN
‘Imponderable evidence’* – teaching typography without theory
XICHENG YANG
The development of modern Chinese punctuation and challenges in typography
Leeds School of Arts
Leeds Beckett University
City Campus
Leeds
United Kingdom
LS1 3HE
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