Programme

Speaker's CV is available in Greek.

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.

Speaker's CV will be available soon.

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.

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.

http://www.urwpp.de/english/home.html

Graphic design researcher based in Elewijt, Belgium, specializing in information design projects. Scholar of Visual rhetoric at AKV|St Joost Academy, Avans University, Breda, The Netherlands.

http://www.visueleretorica.nl

Susanna Dulkinys, a founding partner of SpiekermannPartners, has over a quarter century of hands-on experience in corporate design, branding, publication design, motion graphics, packaging and product design.

Susanna began her career in Chicago, where she received her BFA in Visual Communications. She moved to San Francisco to work as creative director for Wired magazine’s book publishing division. Later, she served as Creative Director of Interactive Advertising for Goodby, Silverstein and Partners.

More recently her interdisciplinary work involves building the TCHO luxury chocolate brand in San Francisco, California. She’s completed brand development for the high-end fashion label Martha Davis Shoes, design for Gravis, Germany’s largest Apple dealer, and a product line of four 24-hour clocks based on R. Buckminster Fuller’s Dymaxion map.

Spiekermann Partners, now Edenspiekermann, has offices in Berlin, Amsterdam and San Francisco. From these three cities, over 100 colleagues work on large corporate design systems and branding for clients like Bosch, The Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra and DB, the German railways.

Susanna divides her time between Berlin and San Francisco.

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.

Visual designer Walter Bohatsch began his career as a graphic designer in 1973 in Montreal, Canada, where he worked for John German Inc. and Gottschalk + Ash. From 1978 to 1981, Bohatsch attended the postgraduate course for Structural Film and Graphic Design at the School of Design in Basel, Switzerland. In 1988 he took further courses at Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh PA, and at Harvard University, Cambridge MA (electronic publishing). In 1983 he set up his own office in Vienna, Austria. He taught 'Experimental and Computer-Supported Typography' from 1989 to 1992 at the University for Applied Arts in Vienna. In 1998 he taught 'Integral Design' for the 'Inter Media' program at the University for Applied Sciences in Vorarlberg, Austria. Pojects by Bohatsch Visual Communication have received national and international awards and have been included in various exhibitions. Bohatsch takes part in various national and international juries, and is a member of AGI - Alliance Graphique International.


www.bohatsch.at

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.

http://datasearch.uts.edu.au/dab/staff/details.cfm?StaffId=2164

Underware

Underware are German Akiem Helmling, Dutchman Bas Jacobs, and Finn Sami Kortemaki. They respectively reside in the cities of Den Haag, Amsterdam, and Helsinki. Their work is among the most popular of up-and-coming independent type foundries — happy-go-lucky, high-quality, text-friendly typefaces for both display use and comprehensive typesetting. Underware’s typefaces stand out thanks to unique aesthetics, finished quality, and a considered collective presence.

Speaker's CV is available in Greek.

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.

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.

Dr Anastasios E. Politis (MSc, Lic.Tech. BA) has an experience of 30 years in the graphic arts, printing, packaging and graphic communication industries in the fields of education, training, projects and studies for documentation of technologies, investments, quality control and strategic analysis for the Greek and European Graphic Arts and Media sector (1977-2007).

He holds the position of Assistant Professor at the Department of Graphic Arts Technology, Athens Technological Educational Institute (TEI) Greece, where he works since 1981. Since 2005 he is lecturing at the Hellenic Open University at the MSc course on "Graphic arts and Multimedia".

Apart of his lecturing at the department of Graphic Arts Technology of the Athens TEI, Dr Politis is working also as entrepreneur since 1989 on the fields of technology analysis and documentation, research projects, development and implementation, human capital development strategies, investment projects for the industry, businesses development on organisation, workflow, quality and production management, strategic development of concepts on education and training.

Maria Stavride is currently teaching typographic and editorial design at the University of Nicosia, Department of Design and Multimedia. Maria has been actively involved in the restructuring and evaluation of the "Graphic Communication" programme and has supported the idea towards the establishment of the 'Design Society'. She is now the faculty advisor to the Society and responsible for many of the activities run by the department. Maria is also a member of the ICTVC Organizing Committee.

Elsa Alatsidou teaches graphic design and typography in secondary education. She holds an MA in Communication Design from Central Saint Martins College of Art & Design, London, and a PgDip in Typography & Graphic Communication from the University of Reading, UK. She worked as an art director in the advertising business, as a lecturer at the Department of Audio and Visual Arts, the Ionian University, Greece, and has taught at various private Art & Design institutions.