Typografy conference
Kirjak 2018
april 20 — 21
KIRJAK 2018
Friday, 20 April — Typography Seminar
National Library of Estonia (2 Tõnismägi, Tallinn)
Panel I TYPOGRAPHY
10:00 Jaan Rõõmus, Aimur Takk, Andree Paat EST – Fresh Estonian typefaces
10:45 Tiiu Pirsko EST – A bird’s eye view of the typographic world of Tõnu Soo
Panel II TYPOGRAPHY
11:50 Irina Smirnova RUS – The theoretical model of Gerrit Noordzij in present-day study of typography
12:35 Teo Tuominen FIN – Applied letter design
Panel III BOOK DESIGN / CALLIGRAPHY
14:30 Carolina Laudon SWE – In the land of legibility and identity
15:15 Oleksiy Chekal UKR – Calligraphic arabesques from the Middle Ages to Futurism
Panel IV BOOK DESIGN
16:30 Sigute Chlebinskaite LIT – Fifty grams of book(art). Daily
17:15 Karl Berglund SWE – Selling murder! Cover design and sales analysis of Swedish crime novels
Saturday, 12 April — Typography Workshops
10:00–18:00 Estonian Academy of Art (Estonia pst 7)
Miriam Surányi AUT — Start your first Font: Introduction to type design with Glyphs
16:00–20:00 Ukrainian Cultural Center (Laboratooriumi 22)
Oleksiy Chekal UKR — Italian epigraphy, or why would a modern designer need medieval types?
(Introduction to monumental proto-Gothic based on Italian inscriptions, and creating a logotype for a museum project.)