Typography Day 2011 is being organized at the National Institute of Design as a part of its golden jubilee celebrations, Ahmedabad 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 (letter conscious people)
The event will include a seminar which will be devoted to add
ressing issues faced by type designers, type users and type educators. The program will feature presentations on the first two days followed by day of workshops dedicated to typography and calligraphy. The event is planned over three days,
Day 1-2 : Seminar focusing on ‘Typography and Expression’
Day 2: Workshop on Typography/Calligraphy/letter press. International Seminar on Typography and Expression focusing on the following aspects of typography-
Experiments / explorations with respect to Expressive typography
Issues of various Multi language scripts and its Expression
Typographic Expressions of local contextual design
Expressions concerning native (Indigenous) Scripts
Research activities in multi lingual communication
