Typography & Graphic Communication

Event Time:

29th June – 3rd July 10:00–17:30, and/or 13th – 17th July 10:00 –17:30

Week 1: Working seminar on research with typographic primary sources. Methodologies for working with, and interpreting primary sources – including ephemera, unconventional material, and digital evidence. Material spans printed material from incunables onwards, artefacts of typemaking across technologies, individual scripts beyond Latin, and multiscript environments. The sessions build practical and thinking skills, supporting narratives that integrate materiality, and reframe existing concepts.

Week 2: Masterclass sessions on typeface design, with a focus on Latin-only and multiscript projects. Sessions span preparation and specification for large projects, establishing models and criteria for evaluation, scaffolding workflows and structured feedback, and balancing revivals, innovation, and fitness for purpose. Aimed at those with competence in typeface design, who can use the intensive  sessions to refine their existing work, or build foundations for work in other scripts.

Both weeks are based around immersive, small-group sessions with global experts, and make use of world-class archives.

Event Time: 10:00 – 17:30

An intensive course on typefaces and typography aimed at designers who are not native to the Latin script. The sessions cover how document styles developed historically and into current digital environments, and how different typeface styles connect to specific uses. They cultivate insights into which decisions identify a typographic genre, and where can typographic originality be expressed.

The course will transform your understanding of why western documents and typefaces look the way they do, develop skills in typographic composition, and use typefaces in documents in an expert manner.

Small group sessions with global experts, with ample opportunity for one-to-one consultations and feedback.

A Certificate of Attendance with a breakdown of hours of study will be issued.

Timings of the event : 09:00–17:30

G21C (Grapholinguistics in the 21st Century), also known as /gʁafematik/, is a biennial academic conference that convenes scholars from disciplines engaged with grapholinguistics and, more broadly, the systematic study of writing systems and their manifestation in written communication. The conference seeks to examine the current state of scholarship in this domain and to assess the significance of writing and writing systems within adjacent disciplines, including computer science, communication studies, linguistics, typography, psychology, and pedagogy. Of particular concern is the investigation of the expanding influence of Unicode and its implications for the future of literacy and textual practices in human societies.

Reflecting the diversity of scholarly perspectives on writing systems, G21C is fundamentally interdisciplinary in orientation. The conference welcomes submissions from researchers across information technology, language and communication studies, graphic communication, and the social sciences.