Type Design Conferences

There are a number of great type design & typography related conferences happening around the world, these days. Several conferences coming up include:

• TypeCon (@typecon, @typesociety)— 23–27 August 2017, Boston, Massachusetts, USA.
• 1–5 August 2018, Portland, Oregon, USA.
• My TypeCon trip reports:
• Typografie-Symposium auf Schloss Raabs — 24–27 August 2017, Raabs an der Thaya, Austria. Next conference in 2020.
  • Facebook event for 2017 conference.
• ATypI (@atypi)— 12–16 September 2017, Montréal, Canada.
• Videos of Montréal 2017 presentations, shortly after they happen.
• TBD September 2018, Antwerp, Belgium.
• TBD 2019, Tokyo, Japan.
• Granshan Yerevan Living Letters (@GranshanConf), 2–8 October 2017, Yerevan, Armenia.
• 23 July 2018, Armenian Script & Culture Day, Los Angeles/Glendale, California, USA.
• 24–29 July 2018, Granshan Conference, San José & San Francisco, California, USA.
• American Printing History Association (@printinghistory) — 6-7 October 2017, Worchester, Massachusetts, USA.
• Unicode Conference (@unicode) — IUC41, 16–18 October 2017, Santa Clara, California, USA
• Face/Interface: Type Design and Human-Computer Interaction Beyond the Western World — 1–2 Dec 2017, Stanford, California, USA. Tickets. Call For Papers [Expired (4 August 2017)]. Organized by @tsmullaney.
• TYPO Labs (@TYPO_Labs) — 12–14 April 2018, Berlin, Germany
  • Videos from TYPO Labs 2017.
• Society for News Design (@SND) — 13–15 April 2018, New York, New York, USA.
  • SNDCLT 2017, 19–21 April 2017.
• Typography Day — 1–3 March 2018, Mumbai, India.
• Robothon Conference (@robothonconf) — 8–9 March 2018, KABK, The Hague, Netherlands. Every 3 years.
  • Videos from Robothon 2015.
  • Video archive for 2015, 2012, and 2009 conferences.
• Kerning 2018 (@kerningconf) — 6–8 June 2018, Faenza, Italy.
• Kerning 2017, 7–9 June 2017, Faenza, Italy.
• Kerning 2017 video archive.

Some conferences have video archives of talks. Here are some other type design conferences you might have missed:

• Typetersburg (@typetersburg) — 5–14 August 2017, Saint Petersburg, Russia.
  • Next: 4–5 August 2018.
  • Note that you can switch between Russian and English in the videos. Translators were available and recorded for Russian and English, as appropriate.
  • Video stream link from conference site.
  • Day 1 live stream archive, 5 August 2017 (in Russian, in English)
  • Day 2 live stream archive, 6 August 2017 (in Russian, in English)
• IStype 2017 (@istype)— 9–11 June 2017, Istanbul, Turkey
  • Video archive.
  • Mono lectures held between ISType conferences.
• Serebro Nabora (@serebronabora), 30 September to 7 October 2016, Moscow, Russia
  • Video archive for 2016 & 2015 conferences.
• Typographics (@TypographicsNYC), 12–22 June 2017 (main conference 16–17 June 2017), New York, New York, USA

Let me know of other type-related conferences you enjoy!

—Jeff Kellem (@composerjk / @slantedhall)
1403 Vintage Mono Pro typeface specimen

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