TYPOGRAPHY CONFERENCE KIRJAK 2019

Friday 12. April 2019 at 09:00 - 18:00

Registration starts at 09:00, seminar at 10:00

National Library of Estonia • Tõnismägi 2, Tallinn, Estonia

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PROGRAMME

Panel I BOOK DESIGN
10:00 Asko Künnap EST – Award ceremony of best designed Baltic books 2018
10:15 Eve Kask, Ivar Sakk EST – Jüri Kaarma. Perfect pitch in typography
11:00 Nina Ulmaja SWE – Development of book design from industrializing to digitizing
11:45 Coffee break 20 min

Panel II WORKING WITH TYPE
12:05 Minna Sakaria SWE – The bad type
12:50 Tadas Karpavičius LIT – Typography as a key element in design projects
13:35 Lunch 1 h

Panel III TYPOGRAPHY
14:35 Aleksandra Samuļenkova LAT – Breeding ground for letters
15:20 Rainer Erich Scheichelbauer AUT – Making a difference: type design and politics
16:05 Coffee break 25 min

Panel IV LETTERING
16:30 Pekka Loiri FIN – Broken typography
17:15 Peter Bankov RUS – Trash lettering
18:00 Programme end

The conference is for graphic designers, typographers, calligraphers, art students, publishers – those who work with text and typefaces, design and layout.

National Library of Estonia • Tõnismägi 2, Tallinn, Estonia

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Estonian Publishers Association, Estonian Graphic Designers Union

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