Commercial Type

EVENTS | CONFERENCES | 10 OCTOBER 2019

Greg Gazdowicz speaking at BITS9 in Chaing Mai, Thailand

Greg will give a talk entitiled “Ahistoric Reading” at this year’s BITS conference in Chiang Mai. This talk will be in depth look at his process of designing Roboto Serif for Google, a typeface that ignores historical precedents for how native screen typefaces should look by ignoring atmosphere and focusing purely on making a comfortable reading experience on screen.

Thu–Sat, 10–12 October 2019

Le Méridien Chiang Mai

108 Changklan Rd

Chang Khlan Sub-district

Amphur Muang

Chiang Mai 50100

Thailand

Visit the conference site for more information

EVENTS | CONFERENCES | 21 APRIL 2018

Fontstand International Typography Conference

On April 21, 2018, Fontstand is organising a packed day of presentations and discussions in the Croatian capital of Zagreb. Paul Barnes will be speaking alongside Ilya Ruderman, Quentin Schmerber, Laura Meseguer, Catherine Dixon, and many other world-class type designers and typographers from around the world, discussing the creation and use of type in the 21st century. (The tickets are sold out)

Saturday, 21 April 2018, 9:00am–7:00pm

Oris, House of Architecture

Kralja Držislava 3

10000 Zagreb

Croatia

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Tickets €100

Conference website

EVENTS | CONFERENCES | 23 MARCH 2018

Type Drives Culture

Christian Schwartz will be speaking on a panel about custom type design together with Mike Abbink of IBM, Boyoung Lee of Sephora, Matteo Bologna of Mucca Design, and Leland Maschmeyer of Chobani at Type Drives Culture, a one-day conference organized by the New York Type Directors Club.

Friday, 23 March 2018, 9:00am–7:30pm

SVA Theater

333 West 23rd Street

New York, NY 10011

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Tickets $90 for TDC members, $125 for non-members, $100 for student non-members

Tickets and more information

EVENTS | CONFERENCES | 22 MARCH 2018

“Type Type Type” at the Society for News Design workshop in New York

Christian Schwartz has assisted in organizing an afternoon of talks on type in news design at SND/NYC, featuring Tobias Frere-Jones, Francesco Franchi and Angelo Rinaldi of La Repubblica, Yara Khoury, and Peter Rentz & Derrick Schultz of the New York Times. This series of short talks and conversations will explore the macro and micro issues of typography in news.

Thursday, 22 March 2018, 12:30pm–5:00pm

Theresa Lang Student Center

The New School

55 West 13th Street

New York, NY 10011

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EVENTS | CONFERENCES | 30 SEPTEMBER 2016

Miguel Reyes speaking at Tipografía México

Miguel will be giving a lecture entitiled “Tipografía para Revistas Contemporáneas” (Type design for contemporary publications) on the first day of Tipografía México, a 2-day conference at CENTRO in Mexico City.

30 September–1 October 2016, 9am–9pm

CENTRO, DISEÑO, CINE, Y TELEVISIÓN

Av Constituyentes 455, América

11820 Ciudad de México, D.F.

Mexico

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$800.00 MXN for students, $1,000.00 MXN for professionals

Schedule and tickets

EVENTS | CONFERENCES | 30 OCTOBER 2015

Christian Schwartz speaking at BITS MMXV in Bangkok

Christian Schwartz will be speaking at this year's Bankgok International Typographic Symposium (BITS), the biggest international type conference in Asia. He will also be conducting a special workshop the day before. Please visit the conference site for more details.

30 October–1 November 2015

Workshop at Thailand Creative & Design Center

622 Emporium Tower 24th Fl.,

Sukhumvit 24 Rd.

Klongton, Klongtoey

Bangkok 10110

Conference at Bangkok Art and Culture Centre

939 Rama 1 Rd

Pathum Wan

Bangkok 10330

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Tickets and more information

EVENTS | CONFERENCES | 19 SEPTEMBER 2015

Christian Schwartz speaking at Serebro Nabora in Moscow

Christian Schwartz will be taking a brief side trip during the North American tour to speak at Serebro Nabora, a type conference in Moscow.

Sat–Sun, 19–20 September 2015

Central House of Architects

Moscow, Granatny pereulok, 7 bld. 1

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Conference website

EVENTS | CONFERENCES | 12 JUNE 2015

Typographics Conference

Typographics is a 10-day design festival devoted to contemporary typography, with talks, workshops, and tours focusing on where typography is today and where its future may lie. It will be held at Cooper Union in New York City. Christian Schwartz will be speaking on newspaper type on Saturday.

Fri–Sat, 12–13 June 2015

Cooper Union

Great Hall

7 East 7th Street

New York, NY

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Conference entry $400 for professionals, $350 for educators, $250 for students. Some events free.

Conference website

EVENTS | CONFERENCES | 9 APRIL 2015

Christian Schwartz at the SND conference in Washington, DC

Christian Schwartz will be speaking on designing type for newspapers at a special session on type and typography at the Society for News Design conference in Washington, DC. For more information, see the main conference site or this page with info in the special session.

Thu–Sat, 9–11 April 2015

Type session at The Washington Post

1150 15th Street NW

Washington DC 20071

Main conference at The Newseum

555 Pennsylvania Ave NW

Washington DC 20001

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Conference registration required to attend the special session

Conference site

EVENTS | CONFERENCES | 2 NOVEMBER 2013

Christian Schwartz at Ampersand 2013 in NYC

Christian Schwartz will reprise his appearance from the Ampersand Conference earlier this summer in Brighton, joining some of the same speakers and some new faces at the first Ampersand to take place in New York City. Christian will close the day with a talk called "Webfonts are just fonts".

Saturday, 2 November 2013

The TimesCenter

242 W 41st St

New York, NY

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Registration $249 before 30 Sept, $349 after

Ampersand NYC

EVENTS | CONFERENCES | 28 JUNE 2013

Christian Schwartz at Ampersand 2013 in Brighton

Christian Schwartz will be joining Erik Spiekermann, The Guardian's Andy Hume, The BBC's Kutlu Çanlıoğlu, & other luminaries on online typography at the 2013 Ampersand Conference in Brighton. Christian will end the day with a talk called "Webfonts are just fonts".

Friday, 28 June 2013, 9:30–18:00

Brighton Dome Corn Exchange

Church Street

Brighton, BN1 1UG

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Registration £150, £75 for students

Ampersand 2013

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