For two weeks, between 24 July and 14 August 2016, St. Petersburg is becoming the epicenter of the world’s type design community. Typetersburg Festival is the first attempt to unite professionals in type design, typography, calligraphy and lettering from all over the world, as well as it is a point for proliferation of the type culture of international acclaim throughout Russia.
6 and 7 August 2016 are the two major days of the festival with a range of lectures, workshops & master-classes. Manege is offering its space and is becoming the main networking area of the Festival.
Festival topics include type designs in all its aspects:
— Type design. Global tendencies and technologies. Countries and cities type branding
— Contemporary Cyrillic font and the ways to make them popular
— Lettering and all handtype techniques
— Calligraphy and its application
— Typographics and its peculiarities in poster, web and multipage design
Bookshop: 12:00 - 20:45
Garçon Café: 12:00 - 20:30
Typetersburg. First International Type Design Festival in Russia
6 August 2016 — 7 August 2016
6 August
Lecture Day One 12:00 — 20:00
11:00 Start of registration
12:30 Welcome by Sergey Rasskazov
12:45 TBC
13:30 Types Today by Ilya Ruderman and Yuri Ostromenzky
14:30 Lunch
15:30 The new era of traditional sign painting by Jacob Engberg Petersen 16:30 Type design of Kokoro&Moi —Niklas Ekholm, Kokoro&Moi
17:30 Design & Artyingup by Olga Vasik
18:30 Public type design diploma presentations
20:00 End of day 1
7 August
Lecture Day Two 12:00 —19:00
11:00 Start of registration
12:15 The New fonts.ru by Gennady Fridman
12:45 Alexanra Korolkova
13:50 TBC
14:30 Lunch
15:30 Fontlab VI by Yuri Yarmola
16:30 Type design of Underware by Sami Kortem?ki (The master of hand lettering signs from Dennmark.@copenhagensigns)
17:35 TBC
18:00 TBC
19:00 End of Lecture programme
More information and registration @ typetersburg.ru
Preliminary registration for all events is required!
Contacts:
+7 911 131-04-85
hello@typetersburg.ru