Thursday, January 01, 2015

Typoday 2014 At Pune

    This blog was pending on me from long time.  I got a chance to attend typoday.in 2014 conference At Symbiosis International University, Viman Nagar, Pune  in February. This was the my second conference specifically on typography domain after National workshop on calligraphy and typography in 2007.





    It was great to meet typography domain experts and also students with excellent research on different topics.

    I got a chance to meet Kishor Patil (GIST, CDAC), Achyut Palav, Dave Crossland, Girish Dalvi (IITB),  Adam Twardoch (Fontlab), Sarag Kulkarni, Prof.  Santosh Kshirsagar (Sir J. J. Institute of Applied Art, Mumbai) and Prof. Manohar Desai (Head, Communication Design, Symbiosis Institute of Design).


    We had a good discussion on Devanagari script standardization with Girish Dalvi, Dave and Kishor Patil. There was few improvements suggested in Lohit but as a system default font we cant do certain changes without proper references. Girish pointed out there is already discussion happening At Maharashtra state government and soon something will happen.

    Also Dave shared number of things on his plans for commissioning Devanagari typefaces in coming years. It excited number of typographer around.

    We had expert from Adobe, Fontlab there. There was workshop from Fontlab after the conference specifically for students, i did not attended it due to some other work.

    We also had discussion on Google Noto fonts and Lohit2 project. Overall it was good experience of attending typoday conference.

    There were number of interesting topics but few i noted were "Sensory Experiences in Typography", Matilda A Typeface for Children's with Low Vision. There was number of interesting posters available.

    Looking forward for attending typoday 2015 and learn new things.

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