On March 9, 2016, I will give a talk at The Basel School of Design. I am honoured to be the first speaker in a lecture series on Multiscript Typography which features the Swiss foundry Dinamo, Gerry Leonidas, Birgit Mersmann, Roman Wilhelm and Vaibhav Singh. My talk has the title ‘There is nothing Arabic about […]
From July 23 to 25, the Granshan Conference is going into its third reiteration. This year, it will be hosted by the University of Reading’s Department of Typography & Graphic Communication (not in its derelict, yet charming premises, but in the University’s business school – a more presentable venue). The Department’s standing as a ‘hub […]
The biannual ICTVC conference is going to start next week in Nicosia, Cyprus. From the 15. to the 19. of June, a series of workshops and the three-day main conference will discuss this year’s theme of ‘Lending grace to language’. It is the fourth time this conference on typography takes place and the first time […]