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| 08:00-08:00 | Typography restoration as a sign for understanding political discourse Arthur Asseo | ΠΟΥΕΡΤΟ ΡΙΚΟ Tο βιογραφικό του ομιλητή είναι διαθέσιμο μόνο στην αγγλική γλώσσα. Arthur Asseo is a designer. In 2009 he obtained a BFA (magna cum laude) in Image and Design, Escuela de Artes Plásticas de Puerto Rico and the Jorge Rechany award for artistic excellency. Tο βιογραφικό του ομιλητή είναι διαθέσιμο μόνο στην αγγλική γλώσσα.
María de Mater O'Neill is a designer, artist and educator with a BFA from Cooper Union, New York, She is PhD candidate in Design Practice, School of Design, Northumbria University, UK. Asseo and O'Neill are partners in Rubberband, a value driven design studio from San Juan, Puerto Rico. |
| 08:00-08:00 | Dimensional typography: The unbearable flatness of being Leslie Atzmon | HΠΑ Tο βιογραφικό του ομιλητή είναι διαθέσιμο μόνο στην αγγλική γλώσσα. Leslie Atzmon is Professor of Graphic Design and Design History at Eastern Michigan University. Atzmon received her MFA in graphic design at Eastern Michigan University and her PhD in design history at Middlesex University in London, England. Her work includes visual projects as well as design history scholarship. Atzmon has presented and published her work in national and international venues. Her principle areas of research interest are visual rhetoric, late nineteenth-century fantasy imagery, book history, and the history of typography. Her collection, Visual Rhetoric and the Eloquence of Design, is forthcoming from Parlor Press in winter 2010. |
| 08:00-08:00 | See with your hands – Visual and tactile communication as a symbolic language Tom Bieling | ΓΕΡΜΑΝΙΑ Tο βιογραφικό του ομιλητή είναι διαθέσιμο μόνο στην αγγλική γλώσσα.
Tom Bieling studied design at KISD, at the University of Applied Sciences, Cologne (Germany) and Universidade Federal do Paraná, Curitiba (Brasil). In his work he focuses on cultural practices especially by means of (body-) language, signs, social dynamics, as well as perception of image. Furthermore, he has been researching the impact and relevance of demographic and socio-cultural categories on the form and practice of design, as well as its effects on the practical use of design within these categories. He is currently working at the Design Research Lab of Deutsche Telekom Laboratories (T-Labs), Berlin/Germany. In 2008 his book gender puppets has been published. He is also founding member of the Design Research Network.
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| 08:00-08:00 | Multimedia communication and the structured construction of visual messages Jorge M. L. Brandão Pereira | ΠΟΡΤΟΓΑΛΙΑ Το βιογραφικό του ομιλητή είναι διαθέσιμο μόνο στην αγγλική γλώσσα.
Jorge M. L. Brandão Pereira is an Assistant Professor at Instituto Politécnico do Cávado e Ave, Barcelos, since 2008, teaching in the Degree Course in graphic design. He is also a member of ID+ Research Institute for Design, Media and Culture. Jorge has a MA in Multimedia Arts and a BA degree in Communication Design/Graphic Arts from the Faculdade de Belas Artes da Universidade do Porto, He has studied (Erasmus) at the Muthesius Hochschule in Kiel, Germany and works currently on his PhD. He acts mainly in the areas of graphic design and production. |
| 08:00-08:00 | Typography “con Sabor Latino” Leila Hernandez | ΗΠΑ Το βιογραφικό του ομιλητή είναι διαθέσιμο μόνο στην αγγλική γλώσσα.
Leila Membreno Hernandez was born and raised in El Salvador located in Central America. She is an artist, designer, and educator. Leila has a permanent attraction to ancient folklore and culture, especially Mesoamerican culture due to her strong roots to her native country located in a rich archeological area. Leila studied handcraft design in the school of Fine Arts Carlos Alberto Imery at the Universidad Dr. Jose Matias Delgado in El Salvador where she obtained her BA in handcraft design (licenciatura en diseño artesanal). She continued with her upper level education by finishing an MFA in graphic design at the University of Florida. A global artist, Leila has lived and travel abroad in countries such as: Italy, France, Spain, Portugal, England, Greece, parts of Russia, Mexico and most of Central America: Guatemala, Nicaragua, Costa Rica and part of Honduras. Leila Hernandez teaches frequently with the Study Abroad Program to: Oaxaca in Mexico, Florence, Rome and Milan in Italy, and Paris France. Leila is an Associate Professor currently teaching graphic design at the University of Texas Pan-American in the United States and is always in a persistent search to find connections between ancient symbols of power and contemporary technological mechanisms of control and how these mediums are themselves mediated through spiritual beliefs and popular culture. Her research is mostly related to contemporary issues related to popular culture, which she has presented at national and international conferences. |
| 08:00-08:00 | Transformer with a daily deadline Jasso Lamberg | ΦΙΝΛΑΝΔΙΑ Tο βιογραφικό του ομιλητή είναι διαθέσιμο μόνο στην αγγλική γλώσσα. Jasso Lamberg is an independent lecturer and designer based in Finland. He has worked as a visual journalist in Finnish newspapers since 2000. In the last years he has been designing graphics for Helsingin Sanomat, the largest subscription based paper in the Nordic region. He teaches courses on typography and visual communication at the Lahti Institute of Design. He holds a MA degree in Theory and History of Typography & Graphic Communication from the University of Reading. |
| 08:00-08:00 | The impression of “Alef” in the expression of different tones Sedaghat Jabbari | ΙΡΑΝ Το βιογραφικό του ομιλητή είναι διαθέσιμο μόνο στην αγγλική γλώσσα.
Sedaghat Jabbari was born in Ardabil, Iran, in 1962. He started teaching as an undergraduate student at the University of Tehran in 1983. At the same time he also taught calligraphy at the "Iranian Society of Calligraphers".He graduated from Tarbiyat Modarres University with an MFA degree in 1988. Jabbari got his PhD in art research from the University of Tehran in 2007. He studied Persian calligraphy and focused on the aesthetics of Miremad Nastaliq; he has supervised more than 50 theses, has held over 15 personal exhibitions and participated in 25 festivals, where he has won many prizes and awards. Tο βιογραφικό του ομιλητή είναι διαθέσιμο μόνο στην αγγλική γλώσσα. Farnaz Masoumzadeh was born in Isfahan, Iran, in 1984. She studied arts at the Isfahan School of Fine Arts and continued studying graphic design at the Faculty of Fine Arts, University of Tehran. In February 2007 she was accepted to the MFA program at the Tehran University. Her research is about the visual principles of Samanid Slipware. She has focused on Islamic calligraphy and tries to apply it to her own designs. In her last project she designed and decorated 50 dishes with Persian script and calligraphy. She also designed three typefaces influenced by Persian calligraphy. Her practice of Iranian traditional music and the way she thinks about each letter’s tune, have affected her font design. |
| 08:00-08:00 | The US of A to Z: the punctuation of the roadside Louise J.I. McWhinnie | ΑΥΣΤΡΑΛΙΑ Το βιογραφικό του ομιλητή είναι διαθέσιμο μόνο στην αγγλική γλώσσα.
Louise McWhinnie is Associate Dean of the Faculty of Design, Architecture & Building at The University of Technology Sydney. Before lecturing in Australia, Louise worked as a graphic designer and lecturer in London, also spending several years as a course director for Central Saint Martins, establishing the graphic design course in Malaysia. Louise lectures at both under-graduate and post-graduate levels across a range of predominantly print-based forms of visual communication, her specialist areas being Typography and Information Design. Her research encompasses the areas of international design education, cultural and linguistic diversity within visual communication educational practice and typography. |
| 08:00-08:00 | Branded: The legacy of sheep bale stencilling in New Zealand Annette O’Sullivan | ΝΕΑ ΖΗΛΑΝΔΙΑ Το βιογραφικό του ομιλητή είναι διαθέσιμο μόνο στην αγγλική γλώσσα.
Annette O’Sullivan is Subject Director of Typography at Massey University, Wellington, New Zealand. She studied typography at the London College of Communication and gained a Masters in Typo/Graphic Studies. Her research interests include combining historical typographic investigation with contemporary practice. This includes museum and exhibition design, typographic design for national memorials and hand printing using historic technologies. She is a member of the International Society of Typographic Designers and their New Zealand coordinator. |
| 08:00-08:00 | Types are people too: The effect of typography on visual communication Kok Cheow Yeoh | ΣΙΓΚΑΠΟΥΡΗ Το βιογραφικό του ομιλητή είναι διαθέσιμο μόνο στην αγγλική γλώσσα. Kok Cheow Yeoh is currently an Assistant Professor of Visual Communication at the Wee Kim Wee School of Communication and Information, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore. Prior to joining NTU, he has taught in California, Arkansas, Texas and Georgia in the United States. His research interests vary, from meaning-making with visual narratives to conceptual and aesthetical applications within social, commercial, educational, and spiritual contexts. This is where the fusion of text and image, message and audience, process and materials, theoretical and practical models interact as such a platform induces designers to be interdisciplinary. |
| 08:00-08:00 | Visual structure of kinetic typography: A motion typographic movie based on screen language Kyeong-Won Youn | ΗΠΑ Tο βιογραφικό του ομιλητή είναι διαθέσιμο μόνο στην αγγλική γλώσσα.
Kyeong-Won Youn is an Assistant Professor of Graphic Design at Montclair State University, USA. He was educated at the SUNY at Buffalo and received his M.F.A. with an emphasis in graphic and interactive design at Tyler School of Art, Temple University. Mr. Youn’s designs have been nationally and internationally awarded and exhibited. His clients include SONY Electronics; Korea Telecom, Co.; ICON Computing, Inc.; G Electronics, Inc.; University of South Alabama; The Order of Engineer, Inc. He has also won various International and National Design Competitions. |
| 08:00-08:00 | The metaphor formula Jon Ashmann | ΗΠΑ Tο βιογραφικό του ομιλητή είναι διαθέσιμο μόνο στην αγγλική γλώσσα.
Professor Jon Ashmann is the coordinator of the Visual Communication at Northern Illinois University where he has received recognition for excellence in teaching. He has traveled to over eighty countries performing lectures, workshops and professional work in many of them. In 2000, he received the "Above and Beyond Award" from the American Institute of Graphic Arts Chicago Chapter for design advocacy and contributions on the board and education committee. |
| 08:00-08:00 | Easily influenced: how our perception of typefaces can be biased Mary Dyson | ΜΕΓΑΛΗ ΒΡΕΤΑΝΙΑ Kαθηγήτρια στο τμήμα Τυπογραφίας και Γραφικής Επικοινωνίας του Πανεπιστημίου του Reading. Σπούδασε πειραματική ψυχολογία με ειδίκευση σε θέματα σχετικά με την αντίληψη. Διδάσκει ηλεκτρονική έκδοση και ψυχολογικά θέματα που άπτονται της τυπογραφίας και της οπτικής επικοινωνίας. Το κύριο ερευνητικό ενδιαφέρον της εστιάζεται στο θέμα του εύληπτου και ευανάγνωστου. Διεξάγει πειράματα σχετικά με τους τυπογραφικούς παράγοντες που επηρεάζουν την ανάγνωση στην οθόνη. Έχει συμμετάσχει σε εργασίες αξιολόγησης τεχνολογιών από την πλευρά του χρήστη, όπως τη χρήση multimedia σε μουσεία και την online πρόσβαση σε συλλογές και ιστοχώρους. Στη διδασκαλία της έχει αναπτύξει υλικό για ένα εικονικό μαθησιακό περιβάλλον, που χρησιμοποιείται ως συνοδευτικό των διαλέξεων. http://www.reading.ac.uk/typography/about/staff/m-c-dyson.aspx |
| 08:00-08:00 | Lifting the fog of war Maaike van Neck | ΜΕΓΑΛΗ ΒΡΕΤΑΝΙΑ Το βιογραφικό του ομιλητή είναι διαθέσιμο μόνο στην αγγλική γλώσσα.
Maaike van Neck, ΜΑ, is an Associate Senior Lecturer on the (BA) Hons Graphic Design and MA Graphic Design at the University of Portsmouth and a founding member of the London-based Research and Design studio Mwmcreative. Το βιογραφικό του ομιλητή είναι διαθέσιμο μόνο στην αγγλική γλώσσα.
Maria da Gandra, MA, is an Associate Lecturer on the MA Communication Design at Central Saint Martins, College of Art & Design and a founding member of the London-based Research and Design studio Mwmcreative. Το βιογραφικό του ομιλητή είναι διαθέσιμο μόνο στην αγγλική γλώσσα.
Madeleine Moret, MA, MSc, is an Associate Lecturer on the BA (Hons) Political Science at the University of Amsterdam. |
| 08:00-08:00 | Multi-script typeface design Το βιογραφικό του ομιλητή είναι διαθέσιμο μόνο στην αγγλική γλώσσα.
Amélie spent the last years travelling, working and studying in different countries. She was graduated from the typography programme of Ecole Estienne in Paris. In 2009 she gained an MA in Typeface Design from the University of Reading, UK. Her type design study focused on three script systems: Latin, Greek and Devanagari. She currently lives in Paris where she works on her own projects as an independent designer. Το βιογραφικό του ομιλητή είναι διαθέσιμο μόνο στην αγγλική γλώσσα.
Irene was graduated from the graphic design programme of Vakalo School of Art & Design in Athens. She then persued her studies at the the University of Derby, from where she was awarded an MA in Advanced practices and theories in graphic design. Irene also holds an MA in Typeface Design from the University of Reading, UK. She has designed Greek fonts for various international typefoundries and collaborated with Cannibal, in Athens. Since summer 2009 she runs poptype foundry. |
| 08:00-08:00 | On Wearing: a critical interpretive framework on design’s already made Alison Gill | ΑΥΣΤΡΑΛΙΑ Το βιογραφικό του ομιλητή είναι διαθέσιμο μόνο στην αγγλική γλώσσα.
Dr Alison Gill lectures in visual communication design in the School of Communication Arts at the University of Western Sydney, Australia. Her PhD was titled “Wearing Clothes” and explored intersections in fashion writing, critical theory and philosophies of embodiment. Alison has written about design, visual and fashion culture for Fashion Theory and Form/Work, and her research interests in material culture have been recently explored in two articles on athletic shoes for the anthologies Shoes: A History from Sandals to Sneakers (2006) and Design Studies: A Reader (2009). Το βιογραφικό του ομιλητή είναι διαθέσιμο μόνο στην αγγλική γλώσσα. Dr Abby Mellick Lopes lectures in design within the School of Communication Arts at the University of Western Sydney, Australia. She received her PhD from the University of Sydney in 2005 and has a background in design and cultural theory. Her PhD thesis explored image ecologies and their material impacts. Her primary academic and industrial experience is in design for sustainability, which was nurtured in her work as a researcher and educator with the EcoDesign Foundation from 1996–2004. She has published widely on design for sustainability issues, most recently a co-authored piece on socio-technical change for Design Philosophy Papers (#3 2009). |
| 08:00-08:00 | The collaboration of the Indonesian traditional typography with the Latin alphabet Riama Maslan Sihombing | ΙΝΔΟΝΗΣΙΑ Το βιογραφικό του ομιλητή είναι διαθέσιμο μόνο στην αγγλική γλώσσα.
Riama Maslan Sihombing is teaching typography and children book design at the Visual Communication Design programme, Faculty of Art and Design, the Institute of Technology of Bandung (ITB), INDONESIA. She holds a MA in Design from ITB. Riama has won the IKAPI Award for the best children Illustrations (1992). She is interested in vernacular typography and picture books. At present Riama follows the Doctoral programme in Design working on a thesis about children's book design. Το βιογραφικό του ομιλητή είναι διαθέσιμο μόνο στην αγγλική γλώσσα. Naomi Haswanto is a lecturer of Typography and Graphic Design, Visual Communication Design programme, Faculty of Art and Design, the Institute of Technology of Bandung (ITB), in Indonesia. She holds a Master Degree in Design (thesis: “Batak Toba letters as a source for presenting typographic ideas"). At present, Naomi is a postgraduate student in the Doctoral programme in Design. Title of thesis “The expressions of typography in the informal sectors of urban people of Bandung”. |
| 08:00-08:00 | New dimensions in type design Andrew Byrom | ΗΠΑ Andrew Byrom was born in Liverpool, England in 1971. After Graduating from the University of East London in 1996 he opened his own design studio and worked for various clients including Penguin Books, The British Academy of Composers and Songwriters, The Industrial Design Centre, and The Guardian Newspaper. Around this time he also began teaching graphic design at The University of Luton, and Central Saint Martins. Byrom moved to the States in 2000 to teach at Northern Illinois University. In 2006 he moved to Long Beach to take up an Associate Professor position at California State University, where he is currently the Area Head of the Graphic Design Department. He divides his time between teaching, designing for various clients and playing with his sons, Auden and Louis. He has recently been commissioned to design typefaces and type treatments for Du Magazine, Elle Decoration, and The New York Times Magazine. His design work has featured in Print, Creative Review, Dwell, IDN, PAGE, Architectural Record and in graphic design books including; Type Addicted, Typo: The Beautiful World of Fonts, New Typographic Design, Type Directors Club Annual 2008 and the AIGA Annual 2004 and 2009.
www.andrewbyrom.com |
| 08:00-08:00 | Visual literacy of Devanāgarī typography: Issues arising due to the application of Latin typographic terms to Devanāgarī typography Girish Dalvi | ΙΝΔΙΑ Girish Dalvi graduated in Computer Engineering from the University of Pune; and completed his post graduation in New Media Design from the National Institute of Design, Ahmedabad. Following this he joined Yahoo! and worked on web based Indian Language projects. Presently he is a teaching assistant at the Industrial Design Centre and visiting faculty at the Tata Institute of Social Sciences. He teaches Typography and Cyberculture. Since 2006 he is pursuing his doctoral research at the Industrial Design Centre in the Indian Institute of Technology Bombay. His areas of focus in research include the history of Devanāgarī typography and Classification Theories. Currently he is working towards the development a conceptual model for the structural analysis of Devanāgarī typefaces. |
| 08:00-08:00 | Using typography to communicate subtleties, sensitivity and emotion Jessica Glaser | ΜΕΓΑΛΗ ΒΡΕΤΑΝΙΑ Jessica Glaser is an associate Senior Lecturer in Graphic Communication at the University of Wolverhampton and partner in Bright Pink Communication Design. She has co-written 6 design books, including The Graphic Designer's Guide to Effective Visual Communication - Creating Hierarchies with Type Image and Colour published by Rotovision and Layout Making it Fit, published by Rockport. Her next book, The Graphic Design Exercise Book, is out spring 2010. Using typography to communicate subtleties, sensitivity and emotion Jeff Leak graduated with honours from North Staffordshire Polytechnic in 1986 in the same year, he was also awarded the Letraset International Design prize. After working briefly in the profession, he became a founding partner of boing! a creative design consultancy. Since this time, his work has been published and exhibited internationally. Jeff Leak is currently Course Leader for Graphic Communication at the University of Wolverhampton. |
| 08:00-08:00 | Μελέτη αναγνωσιμότητας για το ψηφιακό έγγραφο που απευθύνεται σε Έλληνες χρήστες Ελισάβετ Γεωργιάδου | ΕΛΛΑΔΑ Η Ελισάβετ Γεωργιάδου είναι πτυχιούχος του τμήματος Τεχνολογίας Γραφικών Τεχνών του ΤΕΙ Αθήνας και κάτοχος των ακαδημαϊκών τίτλων MA in Image Studies, University of Kent at Canterbury, UK και PhD on Educational Hypermedia, De Montfort University, UK. Διδάσκει γραφικές τέχνες στη δευτεροβάθμια εκπαίδευση και στο μεταπτυχιακό πρόγραμμα σπουδών Γραφικές Τέχνες – Πολυμέσα του Ελληνικού Ανοικτού Πανεπιστημίου. Το βιογραφικό του ομιλητή θα είναι σύντομα διαθέσιμο. |
| 08:00-08:00 | Lettering and readability Peter Karow | ΓΕΡΜΑΝΙΑ Το βιογραφικό του ομιλητή είναι διαθέσιμο μόνο στην αγγλική γλώσσα. Peter Karow was born a farmer’s in Stargard, Pomerania, on November 11, 1940. From School and after his civil service he progressed to the university of Hamburg, to study high energy physics leading to a dissertation in 1971. With Rubow and Weber he founded the company URW Software & Type GmbH. Digital type became his life‘s work and has continued to be a most enjoyable and exciting task to the present day. Several contacts with type designers, especially Hermann Zapf, had great impact on his development of the IKARUS-program. Since 1988, both worked on the hz-progam in order to use the power of computers to improve the micro-typography of texts. Peter Karow gave international presentations on numerous conferences, wrote many articles for journals, got 14 patents for DTP related methods, and wrote several books. In 1995 he started to work on “Digital Typography” and developed programs for paragraph-fit, page-fit, and chapter-fit which typeset a chapter of a book in a manner that it starts on a right and ends on a left page without hurting typographic rules. During all this years, he viewed ads in magazines to learn about application of typefaces - their effect on, expression to, and perception by the reader, and their congeniality. |
| 08:00-08:00 | Ο Νεοκλασικισμός στην Ελληνική τυπογραφία: Firmin Didot, Giambattista Bodoni, Georg Joachim Goeschen Γιώργος Δ. Ματθιόπουλος | ΕΛΛΑΔΑ O Γιώργος Δ. Mατθιόπουλος είναι τυπογραφικός σχεδιαστής της Eταιρείας Eλληνικών Tυπογραφικών Στοιχείων και καθηγητής εφαρμογών στο Τμήμα Γραφιστικής της Σχολής Γραφικών Tεχνών και Kαλλιτεχνικών Σπουδών του TEI Aθήνας, όπου διδάσκει Γραμματογραφία και Τυπογραφικό σχεδιασμό εντύπων. Aσχολείται με την καλλιτεχνική επιμέλεια εκδόσεων και την εταιρική ταυτότητα - τυπογραφική επικοινωνία μουσείων και εκθέσεων. Eχει συγγράψει το εκπαιδευτικό κείμενο, Iστορία και Σχεδιασμός των Tυπογραφικών Στοιχείων για τον μεταπτυχιακό κύκλο σπουδών Γραφικές Tέχνες-Πολυμέσα του Eλληνικού Aνοικτού Πανεπιστημίου και το Ανθολόγιο Ελληνικής Τυπογραφίας (Πανεπιστημιακές Eκδόσεις Kρήτης, 2009), ενώ έχει μεταφράσει στα ελληνικά το βιβλίο του Victor Scholderer, Tα ελληνικά τυπογραφικά στοιχεία: 1465-1927 (Tυποφιλία 1995) και του Robert Bringhurst, Στοιχεία της τυπογραφικής τέχνης (Πανεπιστημιακές Eκδόσεις Kρήτης, 2001). |
| 08:00-08:00 | A drop in the ocean Angela Morelli | ΜΕΓΑΛΗ ΒΡΕΤΑΝΙΑ Το βιογραφικό του ομιλητή είναι διαθέσιμο μόνο στην αγγλική γλώσσα.
Angela Morelli gained her MA in Communication Design with distinction from Central St Martins, where she specialised in Information Design. Her MA project, ‘The Global Water Footprint of Humanity’, was awarded Honorable Mention for outstanding work at the INDEX: AIGA Aspen Design Challenge Designing Water’s. Her recent info-graphics representation of The Steady State Economy has been selected for Images 34 - The best of British Contemporary Illustration 2010. She has collaborated with a number of research and commercial organisations in Europe and works in London as a Graphic and Information designer. She is Associate Lecturer at Central St Martins. |
| 08:00-08:00 | Visual aspects of Iranian calligraphy Mehdi Saeedi | ΙΡΑΝ Το βιογραφικό του ομιλητή είναι διαθέσιμο μόνο στην αγγλική γλώσσα
Mehdi Saeedi was born in Tehran, Iran. He majored in Art and Design at Cambridge University, UK and has won several important awards both locally and internationally (Diploma of Honor, Poster Design Competition, Iran, 2003; Special Award, First Book Cover Design Exhibition, 16th Tehran International Book Fair, 2004; Special Award, 7th International Poster Biennial, Mexico, 2002; First Prize, 1st International Biennial of the Islamic World Poster, Tehran 2004; Third Prize, "Fourth Block", 6th International Triennial of Eco Posters and Graphics Art, Kharkov, Ukraine, 2006; Award of the President of the Self-Governing Region, 6th Trnava International Poster Triennial, Slovakia, 2006; Grand prize, Taiwan International Poster Design Award, Taiwan, 2007; Top award, 15th International Invitational Poster, Colorado, USA, 2007; Honorable mentions, the 2nd International Socio-Political Poster Biennial, Poland, 2008; Grand prize, "Five stars Designers banquet" International Invitational Poster Triennial, Japan 2009. He has attended numerous local and international competitions and exhibitions as a jury member and as a speaker as well. He teaches graphic design in Iran since 2005. |
| 08:00-08:00 | Different times, different graces: decades of revivals through the 'Corpus typographique français' Matthieu Cortat | ΓΑΛΛΙΑ Το βιογραφικό του ομιλητή είναι διαθέσιμο μόνο στην αγγλική γλώσσα.
Born in 1982 in Delémont, Switzerland, Matthieu now lives in Lyon, France. After a degree in graphic communication at the Ecal (Lausanne, Switzerland) he studied at the Atelier National de Recherche Typographique (ANRT, Nancy, France), where he learned type design with Peter Keller, Jean Widmer and, especially, Hans-Jürg Hunziker. After he left the ANCT, Matthieu worked as a freelance type and graphic designer and also as a guide for the "Lyon Printing Museum". During the last six months he has been working on the compilation of the "Corpus Typographique Français" (about 400 entries). His typefaces are available from "Myfonts" (eg. Stuart, Stockmar, Goupil) and "Die Gestalten Verlag" (Bonesana). |
| 08:00-08:00 | Letterpress, a revival Jamie Mahoney | ΗΠΑ Tο βιογραφικό του ομιλητή είναι διαθέσιμο μόνο στην αγγλική γλώσσα.
Assistant Professor Virginia Commonwealth University. Jamie Mahoney is the first director of the Bowe House Press, a letterpress studio at Virginia Commonwealth University’s School of the Arts. She is editor of the publication thINK, a semiannual letterpress student publication. Her work has been recognized The New York Art Director’s Show, The One Show, The Magazine Publishers of America Kelly Awards, Communication Arts and Print. Her designs have also been showcased internationally in British Design and Art Direction annual at the Cannes Film Festival, and in Graphis. She has judged Communication Arts and Magazine Publishers of America Kelly Awards. |
| 08:00-08:00 | The grace of everyday texts: the typographic ephemera of the Working Men's Club Paul Wilson | ΜΕΓΑΛΗ ΒΡΕΤΑΝΙΑ Paul Wilson is a Lecturer in the School of Design at the University of Leeds. His research activities are located within design and visual communication: in particular, aspects of typography and typographic design. They centre on a conceptual reorientation of typographic process and practice, investigating the relationships between typography, writing and aspects of everyday life. His current research explores (designed) narratives of community and place. In particular, it focuses on sites of situated class experience and knowledge at moments or points of transition, decay or termination. |
| 08:00-08:00 | The future of the Arabic alphabet Gwinha Yassine | ΛΙΒΑΝΟΣ Ghinwa Yassine is a Lebanese graphic designer currently living in Saudi Arabia. She's been teaching graphic design with emphasis on typography for the past two years at Dar Al Hekma College in Jeddah. Ghinwa got a BA in graphic design from the American University of Science and Technology in Beirut and has worked for several advertising and design agencies, namely Leo Burnett Jeddah, 4th Dimension Jeddah, and Graphic Shop Beirut. |
| 08:00-08:00 | Reading by design Reneé Seward | ΗΠΑ Reneé Seward is currently an Assistant Professor in the Digital Design program at the University of Cincinnati’s College of DAAP. Prior to her appointment she work as a graphic designer for a small award-winning design studio, Siebert Design Associates, with such clients as Nickelodeon, Bath & Body Works, Target, and Procter & Gamble. Currently, Reneé is working on a project that addresses a national problem by developing interactive tools for teaching 9-11 year old children with dyslexia to read. Building on existing research in learning and cognition, Reneé’s digital tools link letters and letter combinations to phonemes through moving images. |
| 08:00-08:00 | Kinship in type families César Puertas | ΚΟΛΟΜΒΙΑ César Puertas is a graphic designer from the National University of Colombia (1999) and Type designer from the Royal Academy of Arts (KABK) in The Hague (2009). He has worked as book and web designer and more recently as typeface designer with his projects Obliqua, Urbana and Bolivar. Typography teacher at the Jorge Tadeo Lozano University in Bogotá (2005-2007). ADG Colombia co-founder and active member. ATypI associate member. Letras Latinas 2006 and Tipos Latinos 2008 biennals organiser, juror and curator in Colombia. Speaker & lecturer on typography and type design. |
| 08:00-08:00 | A place for the disdained: Popular typography in Mexico Dulce Castro Val | ΜΕΞΙΚΟ Dulce Castro Val was born in Mexico City in 1980. She received a BA in Graphic Communication Design in 2002 from the Autonomous Metropolitan University (UAM), Mexico City, and a certificate in Innovation and Information Technologies in University Teaching in 2007, from the University of Barcelona and UAM. Her interests include Cultural Studies, Popular Culture, Public Spaces and the bonds between rural field and graphic design. Her research work has been presented in the 13th Scientific Convention on Engineering and Architecture, (Cuba, November 2006), the 2nd National Symposium “Challenges in the Handling and Management of the Cities” (Cuba, January 2008), and the 6th International Conference of Design History and Design Studies (Japan, October 2008). Dulce Castro Val currently works at the Autonumous Metropolitan University, Azcapotzalco campus, teaching Design Theory, Packaging and labeling, and Visual Culture. |
| 08:00-08:00 | The Hemingway design Alessandro Segalini | ΤΟΥΡΚΙΑ Alessandro Segalini was born in Piacenza, Italy, and currently lives in Izmir, Turkey. He is a communication designer who specializes in typography. Segalini’s design and research interests include linguistics, book and editorial design, information design, typeface design, calligraphy and lettering, visual identities and designing for multiple languages. Segalini studied design at the Polytechnic of Milan and visual communication at the University of Art and Design of Helsinki. He holds a MSc in industrial design from the Polytechnic University of Milan. Currently he is a faculty member at Izmir University of Economics VCD department focusing on typographic design and design education. He is member of the editorial board of Multi, the RIT journal of diversity and plurality in design. |
| 08:00-08:00 | Thinking in type design David Březina | ΤΣΕΧΟΣΛΟΒΑΚΙΑ David Březina is a Czech type designer and typographer, an associate with Tiro Typeworks, sporadic writer (TYPO, iLT), and lecturer. He got his first Masters degree in informatics at the Masaryk University in Brno. In 2007 he graduated from the MA in Typeface Design in Reading (UK). From 2004 to 2007 he also ran his own design studio, with projects in graphic, web and interface design. His interest in multi-script type design and typography of multilingual and complex texts manifests in an award-winning typeface family Skolar and Surat. He has type design experience with Cyrillic, Greek, Gujarati, Devanagari, and various extensions of Latin. |
| 08:00-08:00 | Serifs and san serifs might break my bones but names will never hurt me Colin Davies | ΜΕΓΑΛΗ ΒΡΕΤΑΝΙΑ Colin Davies is Head of the Department of Design at the Academy of Art and Design, Liverpool John Moores University, UK. He has lectured in the UK and Europe on design and architecture including the Design Museum, London and the ExperimentaDesign - Bienal de Lisboa, Portugal. He is published in design journals including; ID Magazine (USA), Eye, The International Review of Graphic Design and Blueprint Magazine (UK). In the last year he has presented papers at conferences in London, Tel Aviv and Berlin. He is Co-founder, with Monika Parrinder, of the design blog www.limitedlanguage.org Birkhauser Verlag published a book on the design process co-authored with Monika Parrinder in November 2009 titled Limited Language: Rewriting Design: Responding to a feedback culture. He is currently researching for a book to be titled: Design and Violence: from the Enlightenment to 9/11. |
| 08:00-08:00 | Προσδίδοντας χάρη στο χρόνο: Η οπτικοποίηση της διάρκειας για την ύπαρξη και τα γεγονότα στο παρελθόν, το παρόν και το μέλλον. Ευριπίδης Ζαντίδης | ΚΥΠΡΟΣ Ο Ευριπίδης Ζαντίδης είναι Επίκουρος Καθηγητής στο Τμήμα Πολυμέσων και Γραφικών Τεχνών του Τεχνολογικού Πανεπιστημίου Κύπρου (ΤΕΠΑΚ). Κατέχει μεταπτυχιακό τίτλο με υποτροφία από το University of Kent (UK) στη Γραφιστική και τις Καλές Τέχνες, πτυχίο στη Γραφιστική Επικοινωνία από το University of Wolverhampton (UK) και δίπλωμα στην Ηλεκτρολογική Μηχανική από το Ανώτερο Τεχνολογικό Ινστιτούτο της Κύπρου. Έχει παρουσιάσει και δημοσιεύσει θεωρητικές μελέτες σε έγκυρα διεθνή συνέδρια με θέμα την Εκπαίδευση της Γραφιστικής, την Τυπογραφία και την Οπτική Επικοινωνία. Με διακεκριμένο έργο έχει λάβει μέρος σε διεθνείς μπιενάλε και παγκόσμιες εκθέσεις τέχνης και ντιζάιν. Δίδαξε για δώδεκα χρόνια στην ιδιωτική τριτοβάθμια εκπαίδευση της Κύπρου. Υπήρξε μέλος σε διεθνείς κριτικές επιτροπές Γραφιστικής και Τέχνης και είναι ο εκπρόσωπος της Κύπρου στην Παγκόσμια Τυπογραφική Ένωση (ATypI). Τα ερευνητικά του ενδιαφέροντα αφορούν στη σημασία της Σημειωτικής στην οπτικοακουστική μετάφραση της προφορικής γλώσσας με τη χρήση εικόνας, κειμένου και ήχου. Η Ασπασία Παπαδήμα είναι Λέκτορας στο Τμήμα Πολυμέσων και Γραφικών Τεχνών του Τεχνολογικού Πανεπιστημίου Κύπρου (ΤΕΠΑΚ). Κατέχει μεταπτυχιακό τίτλο στις Γραφικές και Καλές Τέχνες από το University of Kent (UK), και πτυχίο στη Γραφιστική από το Τμήμα Γραφιστικής της Σχολής Γραφικών Τεχνών και Καλλιτεχνικών Σπουδών του ΤΕΙ Αθήνας. Δίδαξε επί δεκαετία στην ιδιωτική τριτοβάθμια εκπαίδευση της Κύπρου. Στο παρελθόν εργάστηκε σε δημιουργικά και διαφημιστικά γραφεία στην Ελλάδα και ως καλλιτεχνική διευθύντρια στον τομέα της Διαφήμισης στην Κύπρο. Εξασκεί τη γραφιστική ως σύμβουλος σε σημαντικές αναθέσεις σχεδιασμού. Το ερευνητικό της έργο έχει παρουσιαστεί και δημοσιευθεί σε αναγνωρισμένα διεθνή συνέδρια, ενώ η γραφιστική και καλλιτεχνική δουλειά της έχει παρουσιαστεί σε εκθέσεις στην Κύπρο και στο εξωτερικό. |
| 08:00-08:00 | Picture it: the role of nonverbal processing in literacy education Myra Thiessen | ΜΕΓΑΛΗ ΒΡΕΤΑΝΙΑ After completing her Bachelor of Design at the University of Alberta, Canada, Myra Thiessen gained well-rounded professional experience by working in design studios. After several years Myra returned to academia and completed an MA Information Design and is now in her third year of PhD research in the Department of Typography & Graphic Communication at the University of Reading, UK. Her research is concerned with how visual explanations of complex verbal concepts can be used to aid in the literacy education of dyslexic children. Myra is supported by a University of Reading Overseas Postgraduate Research Studentship. |
| 08:00-08:00 | Arabe maghrébin – reviving an Arabic metal typeface Titus Nemeth | ΓΑΛΛΙΑ Titus Nemeth specialises in typeface design with a special interest for the Arabic script and multilingual typography. He graduated in 2006 from the University of Reading. His multi-script typeface Nassim won several prizes, among them the TDC²2007. Based in Paris he works for clients such as Fontsmith UK, WinSoft and the Brill publishing house in Leiden and teaches typography at the ESAD in Amiens, France. |
| 08:00-08:00 | Some of India's most-read newspapers and their typefaces Dan Reynolds | ΓΕΡΜΑΝΙΑ Dan Reynolds was born in Baltimore. Before moving to Europe, he studied for his graphic design BFA at RISD. Dan spent a few years at the HfG Offenbach (Germany) before receiving an MA in typeface design from the University of Reading (UK). Living in Berlin, Germany, he currently works at Linotype GmbH, and teaches typeface design at the Hochschule Darmstadt. Dan's most recent typeface "Malabar" received a Certificate of Excellence in Type Design from the TDC, silver at ED-Awards 2009, and one of five nationwide gold medals in the Federal Republic of Germany's 2010 design prize competition. |
| 08:00-08:00 | Making Faces: A documentary on cutting metal type Richard Kegler | ΗΠΑ Richard Kegler is the founder and lead designer at P22 type foundry which marks its 16th year of operation in 2010. Before his involvement in type design, Mr. Kegler was a bookbinder, designer, postgraduate (Masters degree in Media Study), artist seeking a respectable self-sustaining life as a hand-craftsman. Mr. Kegler has recently started a non-profit Book Arts Center in Buffalo NY and has returned to an active involvement in hand setting and printing metal and wood type as a concurrent career with digital font research at P22. |
| 08:00-08:00 | Typography in your pocket David Lemon | ΗΠΑ David Lemon loves the intersection between art and technology, and has a deep respect for the importance of communication. While earning a degree in painting and graphic design he fell in love with type, and came to focus on the computer tools that enable it. For more than 20 years he has helped the designers and computer scientists at Adobe Systems work together to make typography work better for more people in more places. |
| 08:00-08:00 | Συζήτηση στρογγυλής τράπεζας: Η εκπαίδευση στο graphic design Arafat Al-Naim | ΙΟΡΔΑΝΙΑ Το βιογραφικό του ομιλητή είναι διαθέσιμο μόνο στην αγγλική γλώσσα.
Dr Arafat Al-Naim is a graphic artist, designer, educator, and the moving spirit behind international art and design projects. He holds a BFA, MFA, PhD in graphic arts and MST in art teaching from the National Academy of Arts, Sofia, Bulgaria. He has lectured and has presented research papers at international conferences. Graphic works by Arafat Al-Naim can be found in Spencer Museum of Art, Kansas (USA), Portland Art Museum, Portland, Oregon (USA), Wrexham Yale Memorial Gallery, Wrexham (UK), National Gallery of Foreign Art, Sofia (Bulgaria), State Museum Gyõr (Hungary), University of Wales Collection, Aberystwyth (UK) and others. He has exhibited in the UK, Australia, New Zealand, Sweden, Italy, North Ireland, FYROM, Germany, Bulgaria, USA, Canada, Cyprus, South Africa, Tunisia, the Netherlands, Brazil, Japan, Egypt, South Korea, Syria, Jordan and elsewhere. Arafat Al-Naim is currently Dean of the Applied Science University Faculty of Art & Design, Amman (Jordan), Member of ICOGRADA (Education Network), Curator of the International SYMPOSIODESIGN - Amman and Editorial Board Member of the International Design Journal Design Behaviors. |
| 08:00-08:00 | Τυπογραφείο "Η Λευκωσία" Μαργαρίτα Ιωάννου | ΚΥΠΡΟΣ Γεννήθηκε στη Λευκωσία και φοίτησε στο Πανεπιστήμιο Κύπρου, απ’ όπου απέκτησε Πτυχίο Φιλολογίας (τμήμα Βυζαντινών και Νέων Ελληνικών Σπουδών) το 2008. Παρακολουθεί το πρόγραμμα μεταπτυχιακών σπουδών Νεοελληνικής Φιλολογίας της Φιλοσοφικής Σχολής του Πανεπιστημίου Κύπρου. Άρθρα και μελέτες της έχουν δημοσιευτεί σε περιοδικά της Κύπρου και της Ελλάδας (Νέα Εποχή, Υφέν, Σύγχρονη Άποψη). Από το 2008 εργάζεται ως μεταπτυχιακή συνεργάτιδα του Τμήματος Βυζαντινών και Νέων Ελληνικών Σπουδών και παράλληλα συμμετέχει στο ερευνητικό πρόγραμμα του Πανεπιστημίου Κύπρου για την έκδοση των Απάντων του Νέαρχου Κληρίδη. Έχει αναλάβει την επιμέλεια έκδοσης τόμου, που υλοποιείται με πρωτοβουλία της αναπληρώτριας καθηγήτριας Ίλιας Χατζηπαναγιώτη-Sangmeister, και που περιλαμβάνει μελέτες μεταπτυχιακών φοιτητών του τμήματός της και φοιτητών του Πανεπιστημίου της Βιέννης. |
| 08:00-08:00 | Toyphabet | an exhibition Βίκτωρ Κοέν | ΗΠΑ Viktor Koen was born in 1967 in Thessaloniki, Greece. He holds a BFA from the Bezalel Academy of Arts & Design in Jerusalem and an MFA with honors from the School of Visual Arts in New York City. Mr. Koen serves on the faculty of Parsons School of Design and the MFA program of the School of Visual Arts. His images are regularly published in the NYTimes Book Review, Time, Newsweek, Esquire, Money and Forbes. His clients include: Atlantic Records, Delta Airlines, IBM, Penguin Putnam, Random House, Doubleday, Simon & Schuster, Harper Collins, National Geographic, Rolling Stone, Reader’s Digest, New York, Man’s Journal, Bloomberg Personal, Fortune, Smart Money, Business Week, Wall Street Journal, The Boston Globe, Chicago Tribune and the Los Angeles Times. |
| 08:00-08:00 | Influences of palm leaf manuscripts on Tamil script Udaya D. Kumar | ΙΝΔΙΑ D. Udaya Kumar is pursuing his PhD in Design at Industrial Design Centre (IDC), IIT Bombay, India; the title of the thesis is ‘Transformation of Tamil letterforms from palm leaf manuscripts to early letterpress printing’. He holds a Master’s degree in Design (Visual communication) from IDC, IIT Bombay and a Bachelor’s degree in Architecture from Anna University, Chennai. Mr Kumar has also two years of professional experience as a Design head in a monthly magazine – Intelligent Computing CHIP. His main areas of interest include Visual Communication, Graphic design, Typography and Type design with a special focus on regional typography of India, especially in Tamil. |
| 08:00-08:00 | The challenge of typography in Hong Kong | Design education in typography Amic G. Ho | ΧΟΝΓΚ ΚΟΝΓΚ Amic Ho is currently a teaching faculty in City University of Hong Kong, Community College, and responsible for teaching two design programs: Arts in Digital Visual Design and Arts in Media and Publication Design. He has graduated from the School of Design, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, where he also received his formal design training and where he studied for a Master in Design, a BA (Hons) in Design (Visual Comm.) and a Higher Diploma in Multimedia Design (Dist.); now he doing a PhD research. His research interests include typography & information design, design education and design and emotion. Ruth Pui-wa Chau is working as the secretary for Hong Kong Society of Typography. She graduated from School of Design, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, with a BA (Hons) in Design (Advertising) and MSocSc in Media Management at the Hong Kong Baptist University. She is also currently a research assistant for several typographic research projects initiated by the Hong Kong Society of Typography. |
| 08:00-08:00 | Design guidelines for using visualization strategies in health education materials Marnie Meylor | ΗΠΑ Marnie Meylor is a Master of Design candidate at the University of Cincinnati with an expected graduation date in June 2010. Her research interests include visual language and information design in healthcare communication. Before attending the University of Cincinnati, Meylor received her BFA in graphic design at Iowa State University in 2006 and worked as a graphic designer at an advertising agency in Des Moines, Iowa. |
| 08:00-08:00 | Under the African Rainbow - Uncovering visual treasures from the cradle of mankind Χάρης Τσέβης | ΕΛΛΑΔΑ A visual designer of Greek origin, Charis Tsevis is based in Athens. He serves global clients including Toyota, IKEA, Time, Fortune and The Los Angeles Times. His work has been awarded at Epica, NPSA and Ed-Awards in the US and Europe. Charis has studied design and advertising in Athens and Milan and he now teaches Typography and Editorial Design at AKTO College, Greece. He frequently contributes to prominent publications with articles on design theory, aesthetics and cyberculture. |
| 08:00-08:00 | A new typeface for a new signage system Wolfgang Homola | ΑΥΣΤΡΙΑ Wolfgang Homola is an independent type designer and graphic designer in Vienna. |