TypeLab

The TypeLab at Typographics 2019 will host a series of hands-on work­shops, demos, inter­views, and experiments, June 13–16.

Keeping with its alternative roots, the TypeLab is a space for informal events to complement the main schedule of the Typographics conference – like a multi-day typographic hackathon.

Hours and access

Thu, June 13	Free and open to the public
Fri, June 14	Open to attendees of the Typographics conference (registration required)
Sat, June 15	Open to attendees of the Typographics conference (registration required)
Sun, June 16	Free and open to the public

The TypeLab will be held mostly in the Room LL101 at 41 Cooper Square, just across the street from where the main Typographics conference is held.

TypeLab’s schedule is curated by Petr van Blokland and will constantly evolve until the final event has ended, allowing for spontaneous alterations and additions as space and time allow. The schedule is always subject to change at any time without notice.

TypeLab events are being planned and will be posted in the coming weeks. For updates and announce­ments, join the Typographics mailing list and follow @TypographicsNYC on Twitter.

• Thursday, June 13 (Open to the public)

  12–2pm	DesignDesign.Space: Scaled Exercise #161 (ask Petr) – Sketch in volume In a sequence of short exercises, designers are challenged to design their process, by sketching the good old way: paper and pencil.
  2–4pm	DD.S: Scaled Exercise #10 (ask Petr) – Write a scaled model of a thesis In a sequence of exercises, designers are challenges to write a scaled model of a thesis. Choose the subject. Make it complete. Evaluate with others.
  3–3:30pm	Petr van Blokland: DesignDesign.Space The thinking behind DesignDesign.Space: If you can’t get it to work as small prototype, how can you expect it will work in reality?
  4–6pm	DD.S: Scaled Exercise #20 (ask Petr) – Quoting a project In a sequence of simulated contacts, designers are challenged to quote a project. How much do you charge? What is the planning? How to communicate about it?
  4–6pm	Petr van Blokland, and others: Feedback on your type designs #1 Designers and student: bring your type designs. Do you dare to receive feedback on your work?
  4–4:30pm	Jasper van Blokland: Coding generative graphic design Coding generative graphic design with Processing: The graduation project
  4:30–5pm	Mario Feliciano: Too many ideas, so little time
  5–7pm	Design teachers forum: If you are teaching or interested in design education, join the discussion Design teachers, students and designers discuss some questions about their profession. Such as: What do you teach to make your students become professionals for the next 20 years? How do you know it works? What other strategies did you try or consider?

• Friday, June 14 (Conference registration required)

  11am–6pm	John Downer: Sign painting & skills Place your order or start your own.
  11am–12pm	DD.S: Scaled Exercise #1720 – Design a working space for yourself or someone else. In a sequence of sketches and small 3D models, a variety of spaces can be designed and presented. How do you get feedback about the right one?
  11–11:30am	Erik van Blokland: The Cube A sneak preview of the Mondag 17/5 Lubalin lecture
  11:30am–12pm	Stephen Nixon: Building Variable Fonts, for Humans: Workflows for Prototyping with WIP UFOs A current problem in making variable fonts from UFOs is that FontMake & FontTools expect all input font masters to be almost perfectly in-sync, without any different or incompatible glyphs. During a design project, this kind of synchrony between many masters is nearly impossible, and certainly a counterproductive thing to focus on (because it prevents rapid exploration within masters).
  12–1pm	DD.S: Scaled Exercise #1180 (ask Petr) – Design a parametric book layout. Bring a book that you like. Write the parametric code that recreates a close match to its layout and typography.
  12–12:30pm	Stephen Coles, Nick Sherman: Fonts In Use
  12:30–1:30pm	Eric Doctor: Radical Alphabets Workshop summary: Letters are a social contract — an ‘a’ is only an ‘a’ because we’ve collectively agreed that it is. What happens when we stretch the boundaries and find the loopholes in this contract?
  1–3pm	DD.S: Scaled Exercise #1680 – Starting a design studio, asking questions and sketching directions. In a sequence of exercises, designers are challenged to sketch scenarios of design studios. Which one works best? Get feedback from others.
  1–3pm	Ringo Seeber and others: Feedback on your type designs #2 (ask Petr) Feedback on your type designs. Designers and students: bring your type designs. Dare to receive feedback on your work?
  1:30–2:30pm	Erik van Blokland: TypeMedia
  2:30–3pm	Frida Medrano: How can Variable Fonts affect brands?
  3:30–5pm	Erik van Blokland: TypeCooker, start & drawing
  3:30–4pm	Spencer Charles: Letters Around the World A Photographic Tour of Hand Painted, Engraved, and Fabricated Letters
  3:30–4pm	Jay Loo: Monotype Mosaic Demo #1 Monotype Mosaic Demo: A solution for your font discovery and management needs
  4–6pm	DD.S: Scaled Exercise #1272 – Design the automated making of info-graphics. Sketching on big data, programming the details.
  4–5pm	Lynne Yun, Juan Villanueva: Behind the curtain of the Type Studio
  4:30–5pm	Jay Loo: Monotype Mosaic Demo #2 Monotype Mosaic Demo: A solution for your font discovery and management needs
  5–6pm	Silas Munro: Start of queer design podcast
  5–6pm	Erik van Blokland: TypeCooker, feedback

• Saturday, June 15 (Conference registration required)

  11am–6pm	John Downer: Sign painting & tools #2 Place your order or use your own&nbsp
  11am–12pm	Petr van Blokland: Scaled Exercise #161 (ask Petr) – Sketch in volume #2 In a sequence of short exercises, designers are challenged to design their process by sketching in the old way: paper and pencil.
  11–11:20am	Gloria Kondrup: What is Old is New Again: Building a Typographic Archive
  11:20am–12pm	Ty Drake: Typographic Morphology
  12–1:30pm	DD.S: Scaled Exercise #453 (ask Petr) – Make a color theme matrix, using PageBot and DrawBotApp.
  12–12:30pm	Ben Kiel: FontParts The Python Font Tool Library.
  12:30–1pm	Eli Heuer: Font Bakery: Quality Assurance for Font Families
  1–3pm	Ringo Seeber and others: Feedback on your type designs #3 (ask Petr) Feedback on your type designs. Designers and students: bring your type designs. Dare to receive feedback on your work?
  1–3pm	Gen Ramírez : Brush Lettering demo
  1–1:45pm	Erik van Blokland: Designing Variable Fonts with RoboFontApp and Skateboard
  1:30–3pm	DD.S: Scaled Exercise #490 (ask Petr) – Make a Generative corporate Identity, using PageBot and DrawBotApp.
  1:45–2pm	Richard Yee: Interactive Type with PoseNet
  2–2:30pm	Petr van Blokland: Publishing with PageBotApp: a preview of the Sunday 16.6 DD.S workshop
  2:30–3pm	Rainer Erich Scheichelbauer , Georg Seifert: The State of Glyphs
  3–4pm	Rainer Erich Scheichelbauer , Georg Seifert: Mini Workshop: Smart Components in Glyphs
  3–3:30pm	Tim Brown: More about Variable Fonts
  3:30–4pm	Vanna Vu: A display font designed to set bold type & generate patterns
  4–6pm	DD.S: Scaled Exercise #1322 (ask Petr) – From type specimen to type exhibition, using PageBot and DrawBotApp
  4–6pm	Ying Chang: Lettering demo
  4–4:30pm	Rainer Erich Scheichelbauer , Georg Seifert: Circumventing Shortcomings in Current OTVar Implementations
  4:30–5pm	Andrew Johnson: Variable fonts in AR

• Sunday, June 16 (Open to the public)

  10am–4:30pm

  Petr van Blokland, DesignDesign.Space: Publishing with PageBotApp Using Python scripting, and in particular, the PageBotApp, this one day workshop addresses the parametric production principles of magazines, newspapers, books, corporate identities, websites, (type) specimens and info-graphics. This one-day workshop is free and open to the public, but registration is required.

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Schedule specifics are subject to change. For updates and announce­ments, join the Typographics mailing list and follow @TypographicsNYC on Twitter.

The 2019 TypeLab typeface is Powerlift from TYPETR.