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Typography Day 2019

Aksharaya
Feb 16, 2019
Typography Day 2019

Typography Day will be organized for the Twelfth time on 2nd to 4th March 2019 at IDC School of Design (IDC), Indian Institute of Technology Bombay (IIT Bombay), Mumbai with support from India Design Association (InDeAs) and Aksharaya.

The theme for this year’s event is ‘Experimental Typography’
The event will feature a day of workshops on Typography and Calligraphy followed by two days of conference dedicated to ‘Experimental Typography’. The international conference will be devoted to addressing issues faced by type designers, type users and type educators. The conference includes presentations by 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.

The event is planned over three days:

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

Day 2-3 : Conference focusing on ‘Experimental Typography’ + Typo Quiz + Exhibition and Installations and Award ceremony

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