Programme
| 10:00-10:30 | Rethinking typography as a field in Turkey Özlem Özkal | TURKEY Having graduated from METU Industrial Design Department, Özlem Özkal has received her MFA and PhD degrees in Bilkent University, Department of Graphic Design. She taught graduate and undergraduate classes in typography, graphic design, design foundation and visual studies in METU, SMFA-Boston, Tufts and Bilkent Universities. She co-founded Tasarımhane Design Co. and worked as a creative director in between 1995-2003. Her fields of research are typographic design and history – in particular, the Ottoman print culture; visual communication, and design education. She is currently teaching at Özyeğin University, Dept of Communication Design in Istanbul.
Onur Yazıcıgil is a typographer and educator who currently lives and works in Istanbul, Turkey. He received his MFA from Purdue University in the USA. He has spoken at TypeCon, ATypI, TypoBerlin, and lectured on various topics in the field of typography. At the present, he is a faculty member at Sabancı University. He developed a humanist sanserif typeface, Duru, with partial availability on Google Web Fonts. In addition to his research in Latin typefaces, he has been most focused on the Ottoman metal typeface production of the 19th century, in particular Ottoman naskh typefaces. Since 2011 has been the co-creator and co-organizer of the ISType conferences.
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| 10:30-11:00 | Typographic realia: Cataloging and connecting wood and metal resources Amelia Hugill-Fontanel | USA Amelia Hugill-Fontanel is associate curator at the Cary Graphic Arts Collection at Rochester Institute of Technology, a renowned library on typographic history. She is an art historian and editor who contributes numerous publications about Cary Collection holdings, including those about graphic design, calligraphy, wood type, and typefounding. As manager of the Cary technology holdings, she is responsible for teaching and maintaining some 18 different presses and several hundred fonts of metal and wood type. She has lectured for the American Printing History Association, the Hamilton Wood Type & Printing Museum, TypeCon,The Typophiles, and the US Government Publishing Office. |
| 11:00-11:30 | COFFEE BREAK |
| 11:30-12:00 | Expanding typographic boundaries: the importance of a documented past Louise J.I. McWhinnie | AUSTRALIA Louise McWhinnie is Associate Dean in the Faculty of Design, Architecture & Building at The University of Technology Sydney, and Head of Department for Creative Intelligence & Innovation Before Australia, she worked as a designer and then Course Director in the UK, and then Asia. |
| 12:00-12:30 | Visual design in the 21st century: Fluid brands, designing for thumbs, and the reign of flat Maria Nicholas | USA Maria Nicholas is an award-winning creative director and designer based in New York with over 20 years of experience in advertising, branding, and art direction. She currently directs user experience design at Kaplan, a global provider of educational services, where she partners with product management and engineering teams to design compelling learning experiences and integrate design best practices into software development. Maria received her Master of Arts in Advertising Design from Syracuse University; her thesis was entitled “A History of 20th Century Greek Advertising”.
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| 12:30-13:00 | What do square, Swiss typography and socialism have in common? Few thoughts about typographer and thinker Jože Brumen Petra Cerne Oven | SLOVENIA Petra Černe Oven is a designer, researcher and author of texts on typography, information design and theory and history of design. As a freelance designer she has received prestigious awards at home and abroad, and was awarded PhD at the Department of Typography and Graphic Communication at the University of Reading (UK). She is the author of numerous articles, exhibitions, she initiated conferences, workshops and lectures and worked for the Brumen Foundation. Together with dr. Barbara Predan they established book series Zbirka 42. She is the Slovenian representative of the Association Typographique Internationale (AtypI), co-founder of the Institute of Design and a lecturer at the Academy of Fine Arts and Design in Ljubljana. |
| 13:00-14:30 | LUNCH BREAK |
| 14:30-15:00 | Prioritising design for children’s reading Sue Walker | UK Sue Walker is Professor of Typography at the University of Reading and Director of the AHRC-funded Design Star Doctoral Training Centre, administered at Reading, working with colleagues at Brighton, Goldsmiths, Loughborough and the Open University. Her research interests include analysis and description of graphic language, in particular the relationship between prescription and practice in everyday documents, typographic design for children and information design in public service. |
| 15:00-15:30 | Visual communication and the use of social networking platforms during times of conflict Shayna Blum | USA Shayna T. Blum received her Master of Fine Art in Design and Technology at the San Francisco Art Institute, 2009; Post Baccalaureate in Text and Image Art at the School of the Museum of Fine Art, Boston, 2005; and Bachelor of Fine Art in Painting at Lyme Academy College of Fine Art, 2001. She is an Assistant Professor of Graphic Design at Xavier University of Louisiana and Principal of Shayna T. Blum Visual Communication Laboratory. |
| 15:30-16:00 | The gap between science & typography Ann Bessemans | BELGIUM Ann has a MA in graphic design. Her typographic graduation project was awarded. In October 2012, she defended her PhD (Type Design for Children with Low Vision), under the supervision of Prof. Dr. Gerard Unger. She was granted two scholarships by Microsoft.She works as a researcher at PXL-MAD (Media Arts & Design), where she also teaches graphic design, typo and type design. Recently she was awarded a grant from Microsoft for a project on visual prosody. Ann was a finalist in the ‘New Scientist Wetenschapstalent 2015’ competition, which recognises early career researchers in the sciences. Recently Ann set up a Research Institute called READSEARCH. Ann is also involved in European COST Action that studies the evolution of Reading in the age of Digitisation. She has presented papers and gave workshops on several occasions both in Belgium and abroad.Ann is (since 2013) also an award winning independent designer. In 2014 she designed a postage stamp for the Belgian postal company that contained 606 words, a Guinness World Record. |
| 16:00-16:30 | COFFEE BREAK |
| 16:30-17:00 | Visual propaganda for children: The example of technical toys Artemis Yagou | GERMANY Artemis Yagou (PhD) is senior researcher for the ERC (Horizon 2020) project Luxury, Fashion and Social Status in Early Modern South-Eastern Europe and teaches for Macromedia University for Media and Communication, Munich. Her research interests include the uses of nationalism in design, design in relation to technology, and the history of dress; she has published and lectured widely on these topics. Her book Fragile Innovation, published by CreateSpace in English (2011) and Greek (2015), explores the modernization of Greece from a design history perspective. She is a member of the Editorial Board of The Design Journal, the International Advisory Board of ThRAD, A Design Culture Journal, and Book Review Editor of ICON, the journal of ICOHTEC. |
| 17:00-17:30 | Conflict transformation art: Exploring the use of art as a means of communication within contexts of urban segregation, Nicosia Cyprus Evanthia Tselika | CYPRUS Evanthia Tselika [PhD] is a visual arts researcher, visual art producer and arts educator. She is assistant professor and programme coordinator of the Fine Art programme, University of Nicosia. Her practice led research is focused on the role of conflict in relation to socially engaged art practices within segregated urban contexts. She has extended research and practical experience in socially engaged and pedagogical art practices with a focus on conflict related contemporary art practices and dialogical structures within the context of divided cities. She has worked, exhibited and collaborated with various galleries and museums in London, El Salvador, Cyprus, Greece, Mexico and Brazil, such as the Municipal Arts Centre in Nicosia, the Department of Antiquities of Cyprus, October Gallery in London, the Modern Art Museum of El Salvador, and the Federal University of Pelotas, Brazil, amongst others.
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| 18:30-19:30 | 6th ICTVC CLOSING SPEECH Neville Brody | UK Neville Brody is Dean of the School of Communication and one of the most celebrated graphic designers of his generation – a leading typographer and internationally recognised art director and brand strategist. The founder of design agency Brody Associates, he established his reputation as creative director of the 1980’s Face magazine, subsequently working with record labels, magazines and a range of international clients including Apple, BBC online, The Times, Channel 4 and the England football team. His hugely influential work has been the subject of numerous exhibitions and publications, most notably the two-volume monograph The Graphic Language of Neville Brody, which was accompanied by an exhibition at the Victoria and Albert Museum.
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| 09:30-10:00 | The Isotype influence on the Henry Dreyfuss’ Symbol Sourcebook Sue Perks | UK Design practioner and partner in Perks Willis Design, researcher, writer and educator with specialisms in information design, museum design and typography. Teaching since the mid 1980s at undergraduate and postgraduate levels in graphic design and information design. PhD in the legacy of the principles of Isotype, University of Reading 2013.Currently MA Subject Leader Graphic Design at University for the Creative Arts, Epsom. Wibo Bakker (1974) works as assistant professor at the Industrial Design department of the Xi’an Jiaotong-Liverpool University (Suzhou, China). He is specialized in design history, graphic design and creativity theory. Lately he has become interested in information design and pictograms, carrying out research in the Netherlands, England, Germany and Japan. Bakker started his career studying graphic design at the ArtEZ Institute of the Arts in Arnhem (1991-1996). An internship at Pentagram Design (San Francisco), as well as jobs at several other design agencies, made him aware of national differences in design cultures. In 2009 he obtained a PhD at Utrecht University for his study on the development of visual identity in the Netherlands, titled ‘Droom van Helderheid: huisstijlen, ontwerpbureaus en modernisme in Nederland: 1960-1975’ (A Clear Dream: Visual Identity, Design Agencies and Modernism in The Netherlands: 1960-1975). |
| 10:00-10:30 | Communicating product semantics by visualised Chinese characters on packaging typography Wen-Chia Wang | TAIWAN Wen-Chia Wang is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Media Design at Tatung University in Taiwan. She has a PhD in College of Engineering and Design at Brunel University, UK. Her research interests include cognitive style, visual design, interface design and user experience. Kun-Fan Lin is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Commercial Design at Chung Yuan Christian University in Taiwan. He has a PhD in Design at Nihon University in Japan. He writes several books about ancient Chinese fonts, and basic theory of colour. His research focuses on ancient Chinese characters, chromatology and cultural and creative design. His several visual design and packaging design works have been awarded by Red Dot and iF in 2014. |
| 10:30-11:00 | Reconsidering 18th century Karamanlidika editions Stelios Irakleous | CYPRUS Stelios Irakleous holds a BA in Turkish Studies (University of Cyprus) and a ResMA from Leiden University. Currently he is s Ph.D. candidate (Leiden University) and works as Special Scientific Staff at the University of Cyprus. He also worked as Research assistant in the research program “Electronic Corpus of Karamanlidika Texts” funded by the University of Cyprus. His main interests include Karamannlidika, Ottoman language, Aljamiado literature (Greek) and language contact. |
| 11:00-11:30 | COFFEE BREAK |
| 11:30-12:00 | Cheap wine in fancy glasses. How typography evokes emotions and builds stories Chiara Aliotta | ITALY Chiara Aliotta is the Founder and Creative Director of the small agency, "Until Sunday". She has many years of experience in art direction and branding. She has created innovative designs for brands like Vodafone, Nivea, Persol, NH Hotel, Osram, and many others. She also volunteered in the Joomla! community for many years before becoming the Joomla! Brand Manager in January 2014. Her work is extremely creative, emotionally involving, detail-obsessed, and rich with colorful illustrations that come from her imaginary world. She describes herself as a typography addict and lover of colors. |
| 12:00-12:30 | Dance Typography: a study of how sound and movement can inspire, enrich and awaken the creative process in typographic and visual communication projects Magdalena Papanikolopoulou | GREECE Magdalena Papanikolopoulou holds a Professional Doctorate in Fine Arts from the University of East London. She was previously a graphic-typographic designer and is now an active artist who creates site-specific performative works, installations, live performances and videos that explore language, written words and typographic forms and allow free expression through calligraphy, speech and body movement. Her concerns revolve around the use of text and language in contemporary art, both semiologically and visually. She experiments with the relationship between body and letter by using letters as objects. She explores movement as dance and how text and words can create a visual poetic language. Dr Papanikolopoulou is the creator of the ‘Dance Typography’ workshop presented in Cyprus, the USA, and Greece. Its goal is to combine dance, movement and typography to help stimulate the minds and bodies of developing graphic design students, as well as anyone who wants to further explore the origins of their creativity. She is a full-time lecturer of graphic design at the Technological Institute of Athens. She is a graduate of the London College of Printing and the Vakalo School of Art and Design. Magdalena lives on the island of Aegina in Greece and has exhibited widely in museums, art and performance festivals and galleries, including Gallery Genesis in Athens, the AVA Gallery in London, O3ONE Art Space in Belgrade, and ArToll in Germany. |
| 12:30-13:00 | Rethinking the nature of virtual art museums: Aesthetic and educational dimensions Fotini Larkou | CYPRUS Fotini Larkou holds a PhD in Art Education. Her principal research interests lie in the field of Art Education, Educational Research, Cultural Understanding and Curriculum Development. She is currently working as an Assistant Headmistress in a primary school, Art Advisor in Primary Education and Advisor for the National Art Curriculum in Pedagogical Institute. She is also part time Lecturer in the University of Nicosia, teaching for the Master in Educational Sciences. She is a founding member of the Hambis Printmaking Museum and a member of the board of Hambis Printmaking School and Museum, a non-profit NGO with extensive national and international collaborations in the areas of printmaking and education. Efi Kyprianidou holds a PhD in Philosophy and has a special interest in Aesthetics. She further specializes in Cultural Policy and Management and she has curated a number of individual and group art exhibitions in Cyprus, Greece, Germany and the UK. She is the academic advisor of the Cyprus Virtual Art Museum and a co-founder of the non-profit arts collective Compassion. She is currently an Adjunct Lecturer at the Open University of Cyprus. |
| 13:00-14:30 | LUNCH BREAK |
| 14:30-15:00 | Lost in digital media and special effects: the case of stop motion model animation Paschalis Paschalis | CYPRUS Paschalis Paschalis is an Associate Professor at the Department of Design and Multimedia, University of Nicosia. His research interests include user interface design, project management, animation and visual communication. He has presented his research at international conferences, worked on funded research projects, served in academic, reviewing and educational accreditation committees and has more than 20 years of professional experience in the field of design. He has been teaching in tertiary education since 1998 and he is the founder of the BA program in Applied Multimedia at the University of Nicosia. He currently holds the position of head of the Department of Design and Multimedia. |
| 15:00-15:30 | Creating comics beyond the conventional drawing approaches Tasos Anastasiades | CYPRUS Tasos Anastasiades holds a BA in Graphic and Advertising design and a Masters Degree in Visual communication. In 2000 he started teaching in various private Art Schools and he also founded his own Art School, I.T.OMIC Art Studio. Since 2004 he has been employed by the European University Cyprus, in the position of Lecturer teaching Graphic Art and Design courses. |
| 15:30-16:00 | Graphic Cinema: mixing the media, blending the senses Veroniki Korakidou | GREECE Veroniki Korakidou is a teaching associate at the TEI of Athens, Department of Graphic Design, Faculty of Graphic Arts & Design. She has studied Media and Communication in Athens, Greece and holds an MPhil in Cultural Studies and Human Communication from the University of Athens, as well as an MBA in audio-visual production & cultural multimedia management. Her PhD research focuses on the evolution of abstract animation language from film to interactive installation art. |
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| 16:30-17:00 | "Nicosia: The story of a shared and contested city". A visual representation project Christos Mais | CYPRUS Christos Mais is a PhD candidate at the Leiden University Centre for the Arts in Society. Project title: Visuals in dissident and underground press during the Long Sixties in Greece. |
| 17:00-17:30 | Inscriptions in architectural exteriors in the 20th century; style, image, semantics, functions and symbolic features Sasha Simeonova Lozanova | BULGARIA Sasha Simeonova Lozanova is an art critic, historian and an ethnologist. She has a degree in the History of Art from the Department of History, the Lomonosov Moscow State University. From 1975 to 1988 she has worked at the Institute of Art Studies, the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, where she defended her PhD (1982). From 1989 to 2004 she joined the Institute of Folklore at the same Academy. Since 1997 she holds a teaching position at the Interior and Furniture Design Department, the University of Forestry, Sofia, where she teaches Art and Design History. In 2015 she was awarded a ScD Diploma from the New Bulgarian University for her book “Art in Design”. Dr Lozanova is the author of more than 110 research articles and 4 books as well as the co-author of 2 books. Stela Tasheva graduated from the University of Architecture, Civil Engineering and Geodesy, Sofia, in 2001. She defended her PhD thesis on “Semiotics of Architectural Graphics” at the Institute of Arts Studies, the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, in 2012; three years later she was offered there the position of Associate Professor. She is the author of the book “Problems and tendencies of Bulgarian architectural graphics in the 20th Century” (2014). Her practical activities include participation in projects of residential and public buildings, either developed individually or as a teamwork. Dr Tasheva is a member of ICOMOS, the Bulgarian Chamber and the Bulgarian Union of Architects. |
| 09:30-10:00 | Καινοτόμα αγώγιμα μελάνια με εφαρμογές στα λειτουργικά έντυπα Vassiliki Belessi | GREECE in Greek |
| 10:00-10:30 | Μελάνια και επιστρώσεις για συμβατικές μεθόδους εκτύπωσης: εξελίξεις και καινοτομίες Elisabeth Georgiadou | GREECE in Greek
Η Ελισάβετ Γεωργιάδου, εκπαιδευτικός, είναι πτυχιούχος του τμήματος Τεχνολογίας Γραφικών Τεχνών του ΤΕΙ Αθήνας, και κάτοχος των ακαδημαϊκών τίτλων Master of Arts in Communication & Image Studies, University of Kent at Canterbury, UK, 1995 και PhD οn Educational Hypermedia, De Montfort University, UK,1998 (με υποτροφία του Ιδρύματος Κρατικών Υποτροφιών). Διδάσκει στη δευτεροβάθμια και στην τριτοβάθμια εκπαίδευσης (Ελληνικό Ανοικτό Πανεπιστήμιο) γραφικές τέχνες, επικοινωνία και πολυμέσα στα οποία αντικείμενα διαθέτει εκτεταμένο δημοσιευμένο ερευνητικό έργο. in Greek Η Πηνελόπη Νικητοπούλου, Τεχνολόγος Γραφικών Τεχνών–Εκπαιδευτικός, είναι κάτοχος του μεταπτυχιακού διπλώματος του προγράμματος Γραφικές Τέχνες–Πολυμέσα του ΕΑΠ (2015), πτυχιούχος του τμήματος Τεχνολογίας Γραφικών Τεχνών του ΤΕΙ Αθήνας (2003) και του ΕΠΠΑΙΚ της ΑΣΠΑΙΤΕ (2010). Έχει εργασθεί πέντε (5) χρόνια στον παραγωγικό τομέα και επτά (7) ως εκπαιδευτικός της Τεχνικής Δευτεροβάθμιας Εκπαίδευσης, ενώ συνεχίζει ως εκπαιδευτικός στις δομές της Δια Βίου Μάθησης. Έχει παρακολουθήσει συνέδρια, εκθέσεις και ημερίδες του κλάδου των γραφικών τεχνών, καθώς και σεμινάρια εκπαιδευτικού περιεχομένου. |
| 10:30-11:00 | Εργαστηριακή ανάπτυξη σειράς μελανιών υδατικής βάσης για εσωτερική εκτύπωση (λαμινάρισμα) εύκαμπτης συσκευασίας με τη μέθοδο της φλεξογραφίας Stamatina Theochari | GREECE in Greek Η Αΐντα Μιχαηλίδου πραγματοποιεί την Πρακτική της Άσκηση (εταιρεία Druckfarben), ως φοιτήτρια του Τεχνολογικού Εκπαιδευτικού Ιδρύματος (ΤΕΙ) Αθήνας, Σχολή Καλλιτεχνικών Σπουδών, Τμήμα Γραφιστικής / Κατεύθυνση Τεχνολογίας Γραφικών Τεχνών. |
| 11:00-11:30 | COFFEE BREAK |
| 11:30-12:00 | Η εφαρμογή της τεχνολογίας της επαυξημένης πραγματικότητας στα έντυπα Elisabeth Georgiadou | GREECE in Greek
Η Ελισάβετ Γεωργιάδου, εκπαιδευτικός, είναι πτυχιούχος του τμήματος Τεχνολογίας Γραφικών Τεχνών του ΤΕΙ Αθήνας, και κάτοχος των ακαδημαϊκών τίτλων Master of Arts in Communication & Image Studies, University of Kent at Canterbury, UK, 1995 και PhD οn Educational Hypermedia, De Montfort University, UK,1998 (με υποτροφία του Ιδρύματος Κρατικών Υποτροφιών). Διδάσκει στη δευτεροβάθμια και στην τριτοβάθμια εκπαίδευσης (Ελληνικό Ανοικτό Πανεπιστήμιο) γραφικές τέχνες, επικοινωνία και πολυμέσα στα οποία αντικείμενα διαθέτει εκτεταμένο δημοσιευμένο ερευνητικό έργο. in Greek |
| 12:00-12:30 | Έντυπη επικοινωνία. Η τεχνολογία κοντινού πεδίου (NFC) ως νέο δυναμικό μέσο στη γραφική επικοινωνία Spyridon Nomikos | GREECE in Greek |
| 12:30-13:00 | Υλικά συσκευασίας: Καινοτομίες και τάσεις εξέλιξης Elisabeth Georgiadou | GREECE in Greek
Η Ελισάβετ Γεωργιάδου, εκπαιδευτικός, είναι πτυχιούχος του τμήματος Τεχνολογίας Γραφικών Τεχνών του ΤΕΙ Αθήνας, και κάτοχος των ακαδημαϊκών τίτλων Master of Arts in Communication & Image Studies, University of Kent at Canterbury, UK, 1995 και PhD οn Educational Hypermedia, De Montfort University, UK,1998 (με υποτροφία του Ιδρύματος Κρατικών Υποτροφιών). Διδάσκει στη δευτεροβάθμια και στην τριτοβάθμια εκπαίδευσης (Ελληνικό Ανοικτό Πανεπιστήμιο) γραφικές τέχνες, επικοινωνία και πολυμέσα στα οποία αντικείμενα διαθέτει εκτεταμένο δημοσιευμένο ερευνητικό έργο. in Greek |
| 13:00-14:30 | LUNCH BREAK |
| 15:00-16:00 | Open Discussion |
| 16:30-18:00 | Panel Discussion | Collaborative processes in type design Liron Lavi Turkenich | ISRAEL Liron Lavi Turkenich is a type designer and researcher based in Israel. She holds a BDes in Visual Communication from Shenkar college in Tel Aviv and an MA in Typeface Design from the University of Reading. Laura Meseguer is a freelance designer based in Barcelona, Spain. Her activity is developed in the field of commercial work and personal projects. She specializes in any kind of project based on typography, from lettering to book design, consultancy and teaching. Through her own digital foundry, Type-Ø-Tones, she releases and promotes her typefaces. In 2003–2004, she enrolled the post-graduate course ‘Type]Media’ at KABK in The Hague. She is the author of the book TypoMag. Typography in Magazines, and co-author of “Cómo crear tipografías. Del boceto a la pantalla”. At the moment she is part of the Typographic Matchmaking III, the multi-script typographic research project of the Khatt Foundation. Luisa Baeta is a freelance graphic and type designer currently living like a nomad between London, New York, Rome and Rio de Janeiro. After working for a few years with graphic design in Brazil, she did a post-graduation in visual communication at the London College of Communication and later got a masters degree in typeface design from the University of Reading (UK). She then worked for three years as a font designer at the London-based type foundry Dalton Maag, on several Latin and non-Latin projects, including her own typeface, Bligh. Bianca Berning is a font engineer with a background in civil engineering, communication and typeface design. After completing her MA in typeface design in Reading in 2011 she joined Dalton Maag, a London-based type foundry. She now heads the Skills & Process team, a multidisciplinary team of typeface designers, font engineers and software developers, that is responsible for the implementation of internal standards and the improvement of Dalton Maag’s font development processes. Alessia Mazzarella is a typeface and graphic designer from Italy currently living in the United Kingdom. She graduated with distinction from the MA in Typeface Design, the University of Reading (2013), received a BA in Graphic Design from Central Saint Martins, London, and a BA in Graphic and Multimedia Design from Sapienza, the University of Rome. She now works independently on typeface design and graphic design projects. During the MA she developed her interest in multi-script typeface design, focusing her research on Odia and Gurmukhi scripts.
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