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Typografy conference

Kirjak 2019

april 12 — 13

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Dmitri Makonnen EST/RUS

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Pekka Loiri FIN

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Rainer Erich Scheichelbauer AUT

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Aleksandra Samuļenkova LAT

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Tadas Karpavičius LIT

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Minna Sakaria SWE

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Nina Ulmaja SWE

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Eve Kask, Ivar Sakk EST

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Kaidi Urmet EST

KIRJAK 2019

Friday, 12 April – Typography Seminar
National Library of Estonia (2 Tõnismägi, Tallinn)

Panel I BOOK DESIGN

10:00 Kaidi Urmet EST – Award ceremony of best designed Baltic books 2018
10:15 Eve Kask, Ivar Sakk EST – Jüri Kaarma. Perfect pitch in typography
11:00 Nina Ulmaja SWE – Development of book design from industrialization to digitization

Panel II WORKING WITH TYPE

12:05 Minna Sakaria SWE – The bad type
12:50 Tadas Karpavičius LIT – More than text

Panel III TYPOGRAPHY

14:35 Aleksandra Samuļenkova LAT – Breeding ground for letters
15:20 Rainer Erich Scheichelbauer AUT – Making a difference: type design and politics

Panel IV LETTERING

16:30 Pekka Loiri FIN – Broken typography
17:15 Dimitri Makonnen EST/RUS – Wild letters

 

Saturday, 13 April – Typography Workshops
Tallinn Polytechnic School (Pärnu road 57)

10:00–13:30
Track 1 Dmitri Makonnen EST/RUS – My wild alphabet
Track 2 Rainer Erich Scheichelbauer AUT – Variable font magic with Glyphs

14:30–18:00
Track 1 Dmitri Makonnen EST/RUS – Wild, wild typographic poster
Track 2 Rainer Erich Scheichelbauer AUT – Digitise your analog letters

Both track workshops are intertwined, in such a way that you will be able to visit both.

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