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Events

This page provides details of typography related events and conferences. It also provides links to some of the organizations that host such events.

Please note: the sites listed here are not under the control of Microsoft. Please read our disclaimer.


Events chart

The following table includes details of type related conferences. If you know of other events please send us details. The MST column indicates if members of Microsoft's Typography group will be in attendance.

When Where Who What MST
Dec 2 - 4 Hong Kong Seybold Seminars Seybold Hong Kong  
1999
Feb 11 - 14 Denver AIGA Colorado Typochondria  
Jan 29 - Apr 24 London, UK Friends of St Bride Primitive Types: the sans serif alphabet from John Soane to Eric Gill  
Mar 1 - 5 Boston Seybold Seminars Seybold Boston 99  
Mar 22 - 25 Boston Unicode, Inc Unicode 14
May 23 - 26 Dallas, Texas How How Design Conference  
2000
Jan The Caribbean GDC & Go International Inc. Millennium Design Cruise / Conference  


Previous events

When Where Who What MST
Mar 3 - Apr 25 New York The Cooper Union Blackletter: Type and National Identity [exhibition]  
Mar 12 - 14 Berlin FontShop International Typo Berlin 98  
Mar 16 - 20 New York City Seybold Seminars Seybold Seminars New York / Publishing 98 yes
Mar 29 - Apr 4 St Malo, France IRISA WEPT 98 yes
Apr 7 Tokyo, Japan Microsoft & Adobe Pacific Rim OpenType Jamboree yes
Apr 8 - 10 Tokyo, Japan Unicode, Inc Unicode 12 yes
May 3 - 5 St. Petersburg Florida The Poynter Institute for Media Studies Designing With Type  
May 16 New York City Type Directors Club Metamorphosis  
May 27 - 29 San Francisco Brody / FSI / Meta FUSE98
May 27... World tour Type Directors Club TDC44 & TDC2 yes
Jun 5 - 7 Potsdam, Germany Fachhochschule Potsdam Forum Typographie 15  
Jun 18 - Jul 10 Heidelberg, Germany Linotype Adrian Frutiger - Forms and counterforms  
Jun 21 - 25 San Francisco Miller Freeman Publishing Web Design & Development 98 yes
Jul 4 London ICA New design
+44 171 930 3647
 
Jul 13 - Aug 7 Charlottesville University of Virginia Rare Book School 98 Summer session courses  
Jul 20 - Aug 7 Portland, Maine Maine College of Art Maine Summer Institute in Graphic Design  
Aug 31 - Sep 4 San Francisco Seybold Seminars Seybold San Francisco 98 yes
Aug 31 - Sep 2 Chicago Designer World Designer World Symposium  
Aug 30 - Sep 4 St Petersburg, Florida Poynter Institute Visual Edge 98  
Sep 1 - Oct 30 San Francisco, California San Francisco Public Library Stone Type: An Exhibition of the Typeface Designs of Sumner Stone
415 557 4560
 
Sep 1 - 4 Pune, India SAARC Multilingual & Multimedia Information Technology  
Sep 8 - 11 Park City, Utah ACD The Sixth Annual Living Surfaces Conference  
Sep 8 - 11 San Jose, California Unicode, Inc Unicode 13 yes
Sep 22 London, UK The Typographic Circle The Typographic Circle Quiz 1998  
Sep 22 - 30 Birmigham, UK Seybold Seminars Seybold Publishing / IPEX 98  
Oct 8 - 10 Rotterdam, The Netherlands FontShop Benelux THype98  
Oct 20 London, UK The Typographic Circle Jonathan Hoefler talk  
Oct 20 - 30 London, UK Friends of St Bride William Caslon and the Revival of an Old Face  
Oct 23 - 25 Lyons, France ATypI ATypI Congress 98 yes
Oct 30 - Nov 1 Westborough, MA USA SOTA TypeCon 98  
Nov 5 London, UK Friends of St Bride Caslon: a Lively Survival  
Nov 5 - 6 Frankfurt, Germany Linotype TypoMedia 98  
Nov 26 - 29 Amsterdam The Netherlands Design Institute Doors of perception: play  


Organizations and past events

Adobe Systems Inc.
Upcoming events, trade shows and conferences sponsored by Adobe.

ATypI, ATypI Fringe & TypeLab
Annual conference organized by the ATypI.

Design Agenda
This site includes details of events hosted by this UK based organization. The site is hosted by Spy Graphics.

The Digital Future
A series of events on the implications and opportunities of today's digital fusion presented by influential speakers from design, technology, commerce, politics and education. The talks are held at the Royal College of Art, Kensington Gore, London.

FUSE
Information about past FUSE events.

Macromedia user conferences and exhibitions (seems to have moved)
Details of events organized by Macromedia.

Society of Graphic Designers of Canada
Conferences, lectures, exhibits and other events hosted by the GDC.

Society of Publishing Designers
The SPD's event page, which includes details of the recent ZINE 2000: Design for New Media conference.

Society of Typographic Aficionados
TypeCon 98 is their first event. The principal speaker will be Matthew Carter.

The Society of Typographic Designers
This British-based society organizes various lectures and seminars.

Type Directors Club (new URL)
Information about events organized by the TDC.

Typocrafters
Sixty years have now elapsed since a small group of friends first gathered in Chicago to share their common interests in the art, craft, and history of printing, typography, lettering, binding, and book collecting. That first meeting of the Typocrafters spawned a tradition that has continued to take place almost every year since 1937.
   e-mail: Center-for-the-Book@uiowa.edu

The Typographic Circle
This UK based group organizes parties, seminars, quiz-nights and conferences. For information on the groups activities visit the FontZone events page.

University of Virginia - Rare Book School
The site includes details of this year's lectures, and biographic details for each of the speakers.



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