Typography Theory Practice Leeds Beckett University
A one-day conference on Saturday 19 October 2024 at Leeds Beckett University, organised by Professor Fraser Muggeridge, that explored how typographic theories and propositions can manifest in practice, can be used to explain practice, and become practice.
The conference brought typographic theory and practice together across a range of contexts and applications in three strands: Typography, Typeface and Teaching.
Admit constraints: then having admitted, fill with discovery
Typography
Aslak Gurholt
Dashes and hyphens
Typography
Xicheng Yang
The development of modern Chinese punctuation and challenges in typography
Typography
Luiza Dale
Desire paths: the potential for different footnotes
Typography
Ela Egidy
Bodies and Surfaces: The prototypographic practice of the nuns at the Convertite (1557–1561)
Typography
Ott Kagovere
Doing the wrong thing for the right reasons
Typeface
Ellmer Stefan
Against typography, part 1: Lettering and type
Video coming soon
Typeface
Tomáš Hlava
Amelia
Typeface
James Langdon
Type size by surface area
Typeface
Ciaran Walsh
A Victim of its Own Success? An assessment of the slipperiness of @ and how the symbol might be used to investigate the ways in which we design connection
Typeface
Abeera Kamran
Designing Urdu newspapers across time and technologies
Typeface
Enav Sharon-Nitzan
Jewish Nationalism and the Revival of the Hebrew Typefaces
Typeface
Fangzheng Li
Visual Harmony: Compromising Mixed Script Typesetting in Academic Papers
Typeface
Hector Mangas Afonso
Enhancing Distance Reading for Low Vision: A Reading Acuity Experiment on Letter Width
Teaching
Diane Mikhael
Decentring the Typographic Hierarchy in the context of Pluriverse/Bilingual typographic texts
Teaching
Simon Thiefes, Joshua Haymann
Opaque tools — Questioning the use of mainstream layout software
Teaching
Luis Lloréns Pendás
From single pages to the double page spreads: Postmodernist Traditionalism as typographic practice and theory
Teaching
Aiden Winterburn
‘Imponderable evidence’* –teaching typography without theory
Video coming soon
Teaching
Sally Thurer
Striking Balance: The Felt Axis in Typography Education
