Typography Day was organized for the tenth time on 23rd to 25th February 2017 hosted by Colombo Department of Integrated Design, University of Moratuwa, Sri Lanka in collaboration with the Industrial Design Centre (IDC), Indian Institute of Technology Bombay (IIT Bombay) with support from India Design Association (InDeAs) and Aksharaya.
The theme of the event was: 'Typography and Diversity'.
The Conference focused on the following issues:
- Experiments and Explorations in Diversity of Typography
- Typography and Diversity in the context of Culture
- Typography and Diversity in the process of Learning
- Typographic Diversity using Multilingual Scripts
- Typographic Diversity in Native (Indigenous) Scripts
- Diversity of Typography in Local Languages
- Research Activities in Diversity of Typography
The conference focused on the following sub-themes:
- Typography and Diversity in education
Instructional Aid, Displays, Information Graphics
- Digital typography and Diversity
Mobile devices, Tablets, Web Typography
- Environmental Typography and Diversity
Signage, Installations, Graffiti or Street Art, Architecture
- Commercial typography and Diversity
Advertisements, Packaging, Retail, Product graphics, Fashion
- Vernacular typography and Diversity
Native Calligraphy, Culture and Typography, Indigenous scripts
- Visual Literacy with respect to Typography and Diversity
Visual Ergonomics, Cognitive studies, Human Machine Interface, Reading experiences
- Typography and Diversity in Media
Television, Movie titling, Movie posters, Subtitling, Typography in motion
Here you can find the selected final juried papers for the conference Typography Day 2017 with the theme of 'Typography and Diversity'.