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Typographics 21: Session 9
Simon Charwey, a Ghanaian brand identity designer whose work is entirely inspired by Afrikan symbols and writing systems, curated and hosted this session …
Typographics 21: Session 8
In this South American session, Giulia Fagundes, a 23-year-old Brazilian designer from Estúdio Daó in São Paulo and a director of DNBR (Designers Negres no Brasil) …
Typographics 21: Session 7
The seventh session was conducted in both Arabic and English, highlighting the nature of duality in Arabic type design …
Typographics 21: Session 6
YuJune Park and Caspar Lam hosted a session dedicated to East Asian languages and scripts, during which their selected speakers from Hong Kong …
Typographics 21: Session 5
‘Typographics 2021’ has been one big, highly accessible and enjoyable world trip. Session five brought us to Russia, or rather, topics circling …
Typographics 21: Session 4
Under the curation of New York-based Australian type designer Troy Leinster, this session centred on the ‘Pacific’ region, and thoughtfully expanded …
Typographics 21: Session 3
To address issues of Turkish and Persian typography, Chicago-based curator Pegah Ahmadi selected speakers who share the experience of …
Typographics 21: Session 2
Hosted gracefully by November’s Shiva Nallaperumal, this session touched on type’s radical capabilities as well as its artistic potential …
Typographics 21: Session 1
This opening session, curated and introduced by Colombian designer César Puertas, had activism and resistance at the core of the three talks …
Global type tour
‘Typographics 21’ was a ten-session, online journey that covered type and lettering from around the world – but with the explicit exclusion of Europe and North America. By Gerry Leonidas