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.