Typography Day 2013

Typography Day

2013

7-9, March 2013 

at 

DoD, IIT Guwahati

Focus on ‘Display Typography’ :

Typography Day will be organized for the sixth time in 2013 at the Department of Design (DoD) at the Indian Institute of Technology Guwahati (IIT Guwahati) in collaboration with the Industrial Design Centre (IDC) at the Indian Institute of Technology Bombay (IIT Bombay) with support from India Design Association (InDeAs) and Aksharaya. 

The theme for this year’s event is ‘Display Typography’

The event will feature a day of workshops on Typography and Calligraphy followed by two days of conference dedicated to display typography. The international conference which will be devoted to addressing issues faced by type designers, type users and type educators. The conference includes presentations of invited keynote speakers, eminent academicians, blind juried papers, industry professionals, research scholars and students. The event will also host an exhibition of selected posters and typographic works of students and faculty members from Design Institutes in India.

The event is planned over three days:

Day 1: Workshops on Typography + Meet on ‘Research in Typography’

Day 2-3 : Conference focusing on ‘Display Typography’

Themes :

The Conference will focus on the following issues:

1.         Experiments and Explorations in Display Typography design.

2.         Display Typography design with multilingual scripts.

3.         Display Typography design in native (indigenous) Scripts.

4.         Display Typography design within local contexts.

5.         Research activities in Display Typography.

Registration

Participation in the conference and workshop 'Typographyday 2013' on 7th and 9th of March 2013 requires registration.

Deadline for Registration: 25th February 2013

# Workshop Tracks and Instructors

* these workshops require the use of laptop

Keynote Speaker

Prof. Mary C Dyson

Prof. Gerry Leonidas

Prof. Kok Cheow Yeoh

Schedule

Schedule of events during the conference ‘Typography day 2013' :

Thursday 7th to Saturday 9th of March 2013 at DOD, IIT Guwahati is available on http://typoday.in/Typo-13-schedule.pdf

Fees

Registration fees for the conference along with the workshop (for students) are as follows:

From India:

•           Professionals: Rs. 5000

•           Professionals (InDeAs Members): Rs. 4000

•           Faculty or NGOs: Rs. 2500

•           Faculty (InDeAs Members): Rs. 2000

•           Students: Rs. 1500*

From Abroad:

•           Professionals: US$ 400

•           Faculty: US$ 250

•           Students: US$ 125*

(* The workshops are meant for the students and the registration fee is valid for both the conference and the workshops.)

Payment

The four options for payment of registration fees are as follows:

1. Bank Draft

2. Bank Cheque

3. Bank Transfer

 Transportation:

Transportation has been arranged for participants staying in the city on all three days during the conference from Guwahati city to IIT campus (Venue of the conference). The buses will pick the participants in the morning and will drop them back to the city at the end of the day.

Contact

If you have any queries, please do not hesitate to contact us at:

Udaya Kumar Dharmalingam or Sougata Karmakar

Typography Day 2013,

Department of Design,

IIT Guwahati,

Guwahati 781039

Assam, India.

Email: typographyday@gmail.com

Phone: +91-361-2582500, +91-361-2582463, +91-361-2582464

Fax: +91-361-2690762