Typography Day was held online for the fourteenth time on 27th and 28th August 2021 hosted by at IDC School of Design (IDC), Indian Institute of Technology Bombay (IIT Bombay) with support from India Design Association (InDeAs) and Aksharaya.
The theme of the event was: 'Hope and Typography'
The Conference focused on the following issues:
- Experiments and Explorations in Typographic Dialogues: Local-Global
- Typographic Dialogues: Local-Global in the context of Culture
- Typographic Dialogues: Local-Global in the process of Learning
- Typographic Dialogues: Local-Global using Multilingual Scripts
- Typographic Dialogues: Local-Global in Native (Indigenous) Scripts
- Typographic Dialogues: Local-Global in Local Languages
- Research Activities in Typographic Dialogues: Local-Global
The conference focused on the following sub-themes:
- Typography in education
Instructional Aid, Displays, Information Graphics
- Digital Typography
Mobile devices, Tablets, Web Typography
- Environmental Typography
Signage, Installations, Graffiti or Street Art, Architecture Art, Architecture
- Commercial Typography
Advertisements, Packaging, Retail, Product graphics, Fashion
- Typography in Identity Programs
Logos, Signs, Branding, Shop and Vehicular Signs
- Vernacular Typography
Native Calligraphy, Culture and Typography, Indigenous scripts
- Visual Literacy and Visual Ergonomics, Cognitive studies, Human Machine Interface, Reading experiences with respect to Typography
- Media Typography
Television, Movie titling, Movie posters, Subtitling, Typography in motion
Here you can find the selected final juried papers for the conference Typographyday 2021 with the theme of 'Hope and Typography'