On Thursday, June 1, the Allard Pierson UvA will host the TypeA’dam conference, an afternoon on a variety of current type and lettering topics.
TypeA’dam has been organized since 2010 and is held in English. The conference is organized in cooperation with the TypeMedia master’s program of the Royal Academy of Art (KABK) in The Hague.
Program
Inna Kochkina – Artistic research into the sociopolitical role of old Cyrillic letterforms
Petr van Blokland – Segoe UI variable: a system font for Windows 11, design, process and tools
Rutherford Craze – Recombinant type: new designs from old ideas
Coffee + tea break: 14.45–15.15
Dan Reynolds – Type for bookbinders: Germany’s other typefoundries
Monice Janson – Giving identity to public space
Marte Verhaegen – Designing with color: the creative possibilities of color fonts