The Industrial Design Centre (IDC) at the Indian Institute of Technology Bombay (IITB) will be celebrating Typography Day 2008 as part of the golden jubilee celebrations of the Indian Institute of Technology Bombay. This special program will be held on Friday, March 28 and Saturday March 29 at the IDC, IIT Bombay, in Powai, Mumbai.

The celebration will include a seminar which will be devoted to addressing issues faced by type designers, type users and type educators. The program will feature presentations, along with a whole day of workshops dedicated to typography.

Theme

The seminar on 28th March will focus on:

1. Font design activities in India
2. Standardisation issues of various Indian language scripts in digital media
3. Indian language computing
4. Challenges ahead for multilingual communication in Indian context
5. Research activities in Indian language typography
6. Calligraphy in Indian Languages

Speakers

The Seminar will host some of the leading men and women working in the field of typography in India.For those who have worked in the field of type or typography in the context of India, if interested in making a presentation at Typography Day 2008, we request you to write to the organisers with a brief on the presentation.

The tentative speakers are:

• Prof. Mahendra Patel
• Rabia Gupta
• Vikas Satwalekar
• Achyut Palav
• Prof. G.V.Sreekumar
• Anand James Dev
• Rajeev Prakash
• S. K. Mohanty
• Vinay Sainekar
• Hashim P M
• Divya Thakur
• Santosh Khirsagar
• Girish Dalvi
• Uday Kumar D
• Nirmal Biswas

Workshop

Typography/Calligraphy workshop on 29th March (Saturday) is designed to offer exposure to student community on various aspects of typography/calligraphy in Indian language scripts. This will provide a platform for students from varied backgrounds to interact with practicing professionals in graphic design.

Workshop Schedule

Registration

If you wish to attend the seminar as well as the workshop, registration for the event is compulsory.Registration fees for the seminar along with the Art/Design Students workshop are as follows:

Faculty, Professionals : Rs. 500 only Art/Design Students, InDeAs members : Rs. 250 only

Registration fees for the School Students workshop are as follows:

School Student : Rs. 100 only

Send payment towards registration fees by Draft payable to ‘Registrar, IIT Bombay’ after filling the registration form to:

Mailing Address:Registration —

Typography Day,

IDC, IIT Bombay,

Powai, Mumbai — 400076, India.

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