About Typographics
Typographics is a design festival for people who use type. The event series takes place June 12–22, 2017, and is devoted to contemporary typography, with talks, workshops, and tours focusing on where typography is today and where its future may lie. It will be held at The Cooper Union in New York City.
Most of the Typographics festival will take place at The Cooper Union, in the East Village neighborhood of Manhattan, New York City.
Speakers
The core of the Typographics festival is a two-day conference featuring the following presenters:
Ellen Lupton
Cooper-Hewitt
“Designer as Publisher: Indie Magazines”
Elana Schlenker
Studio Elana Schlenker, Gratuitous Type
“Designer as Publisher: Indie Magazines”
Astrid Stavro
Atlas
“Type Led by Ideas”
Silas Munro
Otis College of Art and Design
“Abject Typography”
Forest Young
Wolff Olins
“Type in Stereo”
Martin Venezky
Appetite Engineers
“Designing a Process for Design”
Hilary Greenbaum
Whitney Museum of American Art
“It’s not Helvetica, and other facts about designing for the Whitney”
Marlene McCarty
Gran Fury, Bureau, NYU
“Resist Typography”
Ilya Ruderman
type.today
“Type Today”
Kris Sowersby
Klim Type Foundry
“Untitled”
Hansje van Halem
“Trial and Error”
Shiva Nallaperumal
“Typographic Labyrinth”
Stefanie Weigler
Triboro
“Harmony+Tension”
Helen Yentus
Riverhead Books
“Type first: The rebirth of big type and lettering in contemporary book cover design”
Natasha Jen
Pentagram
“Type is a Canvas”
David Heasty
Triboro
“Harmony+Tension”
Ken Barber
House Industries, Type & Lettering
“Fried Eggs & Flourishes: American Advertising Lettering of the Mid‑20th Century”
Annik Troxler
“Developing Type & Image for Poster Design”
Lara Captan
“Arabic Type Design – Beirut: The Story”
Jonathan Hoefler
Hoefler & Co.
“Uncharacteristic Characters”
Jonathan Key
“Designing to Amplify”
Kara Haupt
The New Yorker, Babe Vibes
“Designer as Publisher: Indie Magazines”
Agnieszka Gasparska
Kiss Me I’m Polish
“Handwriting: Our Personal Typography”
Ryan Essmaker
The Great Discontent
“Designer as Publisher: Indie Magazines”
