automatic type design 2
atelier national de recherche typographique
november 17–18, 2016 at ensad nancy amphitheatre,
artem campus, 1 place cartier-bresson 54000 nancy, france
automatic-type-design@anrt-nancy.fr
the second edition of the international conference automatic type design, organized by the anrt, will address the history of digital fonts (jacques andré, charles bigelow), and particularly metafonts, in a historical and critical perspective (gerry leonidas, dave crossland, julián moncada, indra kupferschmid); the renewal of parametric typefaces in new applications (prototypo, samuel & jérémie hornus, open source publishing); font production processes and automation of type design (bianca berning, david vallance), the contribution of computer sciences and document analysis to typographic design (elisa barney smith, bart lamiroy); the role of design in the field of digital humanities (anthony masure), and new perspectives in responsive typography (nick sherman, laurence penney).
program:
thursday, 17 november 2016
digital typography
9h15Check-in
9h45Thomas Huot-Marchand (ANRT - Nancy, France), Introduction
10hJacques André (Rennes, France), Digital Fonts: A Brief History / FR
10h45Charles Bigelow (Bigelow & Holmes – Rochester, USA), Les Bonheurs de Lucida / EN
11h30Gerry Leonidas (University of Reading – UK), What would Richard do? / EN
metafonts and parametric type design
14hDave Crossland (Google – NYC, USA), Metafont / EN
14h45Thomas Huot-Marchand (ANRT – Nancy, France), Knuth Vs. Hofstadter / FR
15h30Open Source Publishing (Brussels, BE), Back to the strokes / EN
16h15Pause
16h30Yannick Mathey & Louis-Rémi Babé (Lyon, France), Prototypo / FR–EN
17h15Samuel & Jérémie Hornus (INRIA / ANRT – Nancy, France), Design Tools Inspired by TrueType Hinting / EN
friday, 18 novembre 2016
typography, computer sciences and digital humanities
9h15Julián Moncada (ANRT – Bogota, COL), Questioning Consistency: some notions about the role of people and tools in shaping the future of typeface design / EN
10hAnthony Masure (Université Jean Jaurès – toulouse, France), Design et humanités numériques / FR
10h45Pause
11hElisa Barney Smith (Boise State University, USA), The Melville Marginalia / EN
11h45Bart Lamiroy & David Vallance (LORIA, ANRT – Nancy, France), Re-typograph / EN
variable fonts
13h45Bianca Berning (Dalton Maag – London, UK), WIP / EN
14h30Nick Sherman (New York, USA), Variable fonts are here. What now? / EN
15h15Laurence Penney (Bristol, UK), Axis-praxis / EN
16hPause
16h15Round table with Indra Kupferschmid (HBK Saar, DE), Bianca Berning, Laurence Penney & Nick Sherman / EN
17h15End
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automatic type design 2
atelier national de recherche typographique
november 17–18, 2016 at ensad nancy amphitheatre,
artem campus, 1 place cartier-bresson 54000 nancy, france
automatic-type-design@anrt-nancy.fr
the second edition of the international conference automatic type design, organized by the anrt, will address the history of digital fonts (jacques andré, charles bigelow), and particularly metafonts, in a historical and critical perspective (gerry leonidas, dave crossland, julián moncada, indra kupferschmid); the renewal of parametric typefaces in new applications (prototypo, samuel & jérémie hornus, open source publishing); font production processes and automation of type design (bianca berning, david vallance), the contribution of computer sciences and document analysis to typographic design (elisa barney smith, bart lamiroy); the role of design in the field of digital humanities (anthony masure), and new perspectives in responsive typography (nick sherman, laurence penney).
program:
thursday, 17 november 2016
digital typography
9h15Check-in
9h45Thomas Huot-Marchand (ANRT - Nancy, France), Introduction
10hJacques André (Rennes, France), Digital Fonts: A Brief History / FR
10h45Charles Bigelow (Bigelow & Holmes – Rochester, USA), Les Bonheurs de Lucida / EN
11h30Gerry Leonidas (University of Reading – UK), What would Richard do? / EN
metafonts and parametric type design
14hDave Crossland (Google – NYC, USA), Metafont / EN
14h45Thomas Huot-Marchand (ANRT – Nancy, France), Knuth Vs. Hofstadter / FR
15h30Open Source Publishing (Brussels, BE), Back to the strokes / EN
16h15Pause
16h30Yannick Mathey & Louis-Rémi Babé (Lyon, France), Prototypo / FR–EN
17h15Samuel & Jérémie Hornus (INRIA / ANRT – Nancy, France), Design Tools Inspired by TrueType Hinting / EN
friday, 18 novembre 2016
typography, computer sciences and digital humanities
9h15Julián Moncada (ANRT – Bogota, COL), Questioning Consistency: some notions about the role of people and tools in shaping the future of typeface design / EN
10hAnthony Masure (Université Jean Jaurès – toulouse, France), Design et humanités numériques / FR
10h45Pause
11hElisa Barney Smith (Boise State University, USA), The Melville Marginalia / EN
11h45Bart Lamiroy & David Vallance (LORIA, ANRT – Nancy, France), Re-typograph / EN
variable fonts
13h45Bianca Berning (Dalton Maag – London, UK), WIP / EN
14h30Nick Sherman (New York, USA), Variable fonts are here. What now? / EN
15h15Laurence Penney (Bristol, UK), Axis-praxis / EN
16hPause
16h15Round table with Indra Kupferschmid (HBK Saar, DE), Bianca Berning, Laurence Penney & Nick Sherman / EN
17h15End
download the detailed program
registration is closed
