TypeCon is an annual conference presented by the non-profit Society of Typographic Aficionados (SOTA), an international organization dedicated to the promotion, study, and support of typography and related arts.
TypeCon covers an increasingly broad range of topics, including: typography; type design; font production; graphic design; digital media; printing history; calligraphy; lettering; book arts; advertising; wayfinding; type in motion; literacy; type sales and marketing; legal issues; design education; and other related area
Here we present you some of Typcon Special Events:
Typecon Special Events:
7:00 pm – 9:00 pm
Nicholas Felton is a designer, entrepreneur, and artist concerned with translating quotidian data into meaningful objects and experiences. He is the author of numerous personal Annual Reports that condense the events of a year into a tapestry of maps, graphs, and statistics. The insights and techniques developed from his Annual Reports have informed his design of Facebook’s Timeline and the creation of the Reporter and Daytum applications. He has been profiled by The Wall Street Journal and The New York Times and his work is a part of the permanent collection at MoMA.
This event is open to the public.
Ink Lounge Open House
8:00 pm – 10:00 pm
Ink Lounge Screenprinting Studio
29 S Fox Street
Denver, CO 80223
Join us for a visit to Ink Lounge where you can pull a print, toast a beverage, snack from local food trucks, and learn how two graphic designers accidentally blended their design careers into a creative ink playground within a 3,700 square foot screenprinting studio. Over the past eight years, Nicky and Stu Alden, have evolved and expanded their creative studio into something unique where today they teach screenprinting workshops to all ages, print commercially for an increasing list off clients, and continue to do branding for businesses large and small. Perhaps their favorite part of the evolution — they created a community screenprinting area within their studio that is fostering a new generation of screenprinters in Denver.
Keynote Presentation: Marian Bantjes
Hosted by the Society of Typographic Aficionados
6:30 pm – 8:30 pm
Grand Ballroom
Sheraton Denver Downtown
Marian Bantjes lives and works from an island off the West coast of Canada. She has been variously described as a typographer, designer, artist and writer. She has spoken at over 100 events worldwide, her work has been published in many books and international magazines and is included in the permanent collection of the Cooper-Hewitt National Design Museum in New York. In 2010, Thames & Hudson published her book I Wonder, and in Sept 2013 they published a giant monograph of her work, titled Pretty Pictures. She is a member of Alliance Graphique Internationale (AGI) and 2010 she was awarded an Honorary Doctorate of Letters from Emily Carr University in Vancouver, Canada.
The 14th Annual Type Crit
1:30 pm – 2:30 pm
Sheraton Denver Downtown
The always popular Type Crit is back, celebrating its fourteenth year of laying down the typographic smack. Masters of typographic analysis and elucidationJohn Downer and Akira Kobayashi will provide gentle, constructive criticism to designers submitting their individual type designs for review.
Closing Night Event
Hosted by the Society of Typographic Aficionados
7:30 pm – 9:30 pm
Details to be announced.
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