6ET

Presentation

The sixth edition of the Typography Meeting (6ET) is an event promoted and organized by the Portuguese delegation of the Association Typographique Internationale (ATypI). The present sixth edition is being hosted at the Department of Communication and Art at the University of Aveiro (DeCA) with the support of its main research units — DigiMedia e ID+.

This year's theme "Perception" intends for participants to reflect on the factors that enhance the functionality of typography. Factors such as legibility, readability and reading efficiency. As well as the emotional appeal transmitted through design, style or aesthetic options. How these factors enhance typography when used in different media (analog or digital), with different functions (reading, information, entertainment), or even when it's intended for different audiences (children and young readers, experienced readers, senior or visually impaired readers) .

The sixth edition aims to consolidate one of the main objectives of the conference: to establish itself as a national center for discussion and dissemination of typography. To this end, while maintaining the format of the previous editions, the program includes the participation of national and international invited speakers, along with the presentation of communications, projects and panel discussions resulting from the call for papers.

Conference Program

We are currently finishing the program and alocating the speaker presentations and workshop rooms. The final program will soon be announced.

 

Preface Workshops

Workshops will be held in advance of the conference. The preparation of the workshopwas a result from the call for proposals. The workshops have a registration fee of 20€ (separate from the conference registration fee). A digital certificate of participation will be issued to registered participants.The preview schedule is as follows.

Soon we will update this information and the necessary registration details.

Wednesday, December 2nd

Thursday, December 3rd

Conference program

 

6ET from Encontro de Tipografia on Vimeo.

The conference will take place at the DAO (Departamento de Ambiente e Ordenamento) of the University of Aveiro.

Friday, December 4th

 

Saturday, December 5th

 

 

Invited Speakers

This edition will include the participation of national and international invited speakers.

 

Ricardo Santos

http://vanarchiv.com/

Ricardo Santos is a Portuguese type designer. He studied at the António Arroio, has a degree in Visual Design from IADE (Lisbon) and master's degree in advanced typography from EINA (Barcelona). He began designing typefaces in 1997, but only began marketing his work in 2004, through Vanarchiv — his personal digital foundry. In 2005 he published the typeface Lisbon through Fountain. In recent years, he has associated with other projects and designers, Tiponautas and Tipos das Letras. Ricardo is a professor in ESAD.CR (Caldas da Rainha) where he teaches the Typography course.

 

Tim Ahrens & Shoko Mugikura

http://justanotherfoundry.com/

Founded in 2004, Just Another Foundry is oper­ated by Tim Ahrens and Shoko Mugikura – a type designer and a typo­graph­er, respect­ively.

Tim Ahrens has a degree in archi­tec­ture from the University of Karls­ruhe (Ger­many), and holds an MA in Typeface Design from the University of Reading (UK). His type designs include Linotype Aroma (2000), JAF Lapture (2004), JAF Facit (2005), JAF Mashine (2005), JAF Zalamander (2006), JAF Herb (2010) and, in collabor­ation with Shoko Mugikura, JAF Domus Titling (2011), JAF Bernini Sans (2012) and JAF Johannes (2014). He is also known for his program­ming projects such as the Font Remix Tools, and research and writing about font related matters. He lectures regu­larly at various typo­graphy and web design confer­ences. Tim is also a special­ist in web font tech­no­logy and has been working a consult­ant for Typekit since 2010. He collab­or­ates with a number of type design­ers and distrib­ut­ors includ­ing Font­Font, Type Together and Gerard Unger.

Shoko Mugikura studied Visual Commu­nic­a­tion Design in her native country Japan at Musashino Art University in Tokyo, then gained an MA in Book Design from the University of Reading (UK). Alongside her studies in England, she worked at Boag Associates and was involved in information design projects such as re-designing bills for major tele­communi­cations companies and utility providers. From 2007 to 2011 Shoko worked at Polimekanos, where she was respon­sible for the editorial design projects. In 2011 she joined Just Another Foundry, and collabor­ated with Tim Ahrens on creating JAF Domus Titling (2011), JAF Bernini Sans (2012) and JAF Johannes (2014). She has spoken on multi-script typo­graphy at the ICHLL5 (Ox­ford University), ATypI 2010 in Dublin, Typotag 2011 in Munich and TYPO Berlin 2012, and most recently on Euro­pean typog­raphy at TypeTalks in Tokyo in 2015.

 

Javier Errea

http://www.erreacomunicacion.com

Javier Errea, journalist, is the founder and director of the Errea Communication office, which is based in Pamplona, ​​Spain. He is the president of the Spanish Chapter of the Society for News Design, director of the SND for Mediterranean Europe and coordinator of the World Summit Awards and Malofiej of Infographics. Associate Professor of Edition and Projects at the Faculty of Communication at the University of Navarra. He has designed or redesigned a hundred newspapers and magazines, in print or digital support, worldwide. Some of his projects have won the award for the best designed of the world: The Economist (Spain), Expresso (Portugal), Eleftheros Tipos (Greece), i (Portugal) and Dagens Nyheter (Sweden). Recently, on printed support, he has redesigned Libération and Les Echos (France), The Independent (UK), La Nación (Argentina), El Universal (Mexico), Malayala Manorama (India) or Aamulehti (Finland). In digital support, he has just redesigned El Universal (Mexico), Barometern and Gota Media group (Sweden). At present, he is redesigning in both print and digital media support The Scotsman, in Scotland, and Diário de Notícias, in Portugal.

 

Ann Bessemans

http://www.pxl-mad.be/content/readsearch

Ann has a MA in graphic design. Her typographic graduation project was awarded. In October 2012, she defended her PhD (Type Design for Children with Low Vision), under the supervision of Prof. Dr. Gerard Unger and Prof. Dr. Bert Willems. For the PhD she was granted two scholarships by Microsoft. She works as a postdoctoral researcher at PXL-MAD (Media Arts & Design)/ and teaches graphic design, typo and type design. Recently she was awarded a major grant from Microsoft Advanced Reading Technologies USA for a project on visual prosody. At the moment Ann is one of the five nominees for ‘New Scientist Wetenschapstalent 2015’, which recognises early career researchers in the sciences. Recently Ann set up a Research Institute called READSEARCH (PXL-MAD). She also is an award winning (typo)graphic designer. In 2014 she designed a postage stamp for the Belgian postal company that contained 606 words, a Guinness World Record. Her research/design interests: typography, font design, legibility, reading, graphic design, book design and modular systems.

Social Program

The Social Program is being prepared with multiple activities in mind. We are preparing a Portuguese Book launch, the opening of a type specimens and old journals exhibition at the Bookshop Gallery. And a posters and editorial projects exhibition at th University Library Gallery.

Later, we'll have the conference dinner. we invite everyone to register. The dinner registration fee (to be announced) is not included in the conference registration.

More information soon.

"Warm-up" Activities

We've prepared a set of "warm-up" activities leading to the conference.

Lean Type Design Workshop

Participants will be introduced to Type Design using Glyphs 2.1 software and according to an agile developement methodology within team colaboration.

Rui Abreu & Pedro Amado
Saturday, September 26 2015

Information & Registration

Photo Search Font Workshop

Participants will learn how to use photography as a typographic research technique, bound by an exploration of the city centre of Aveiro.

João Leal
Wednesday, September 30 2015

Information & Registration

“Font Jockey” for Web Design Worksho

Who will be the best “Font Jockey” of the world? Learn how to rapidily manipulate and experiment several fonts in Web Design!

Fábio Maricato, Daniel Rodrigues, Alexandre Neves & Carlos Santos
Wednesday, November 4, 2015

Information & Registration

Associated Workshops

The friends and the partners od the 6th Typography Meeting are organizing several activities within the scope of the typographical practice and reflexion, kindly linking these to our event in order to promote and to develop the type community.

RUHA Letter Stencil Workshop

The RUHA letter stencil was developed as a teaching aid tool, later becoming a full-fledged product. The RUHA has the rigidity and rationality of the Roman du Roi letter model, but, at the same time, is also a flexible tool that allows a part-by-part construction of a variety of type styles.

Rúben Dias, Ricardo Santos &Aprígio Morgado
Saturday, 28th of November, 2015

Informations

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Registration

The registration is now closed. If you wish to attend, please contact the secretariat: atypiportugal@gmail.com.

 

(a) (b) Students and ATypI members must send a copy of an active student registration or membership by email along with the payment receipt.

(c) Requires notification of acceptance of the paper or poster by the Technical and Scientific Committee.

A digital certificate of attendance, or participation will be issued to registered participants.

Registration with two or more papers or posters

Participants with more than one accepted submission (paper or poster) should only pay for 50% of the value of the second registration fee.

Submissions of two or more authors

The main author of the paper or poster should pay the full participation registration fee. Secondary authors should only pay for an attendance registration fee. Certificates will only be emitted for the registered authors.

Payment information

After filling in the online registration, please send the payment receipt to the conference email : atypiportugal@gmail.com; with carbon copy (CC) to: claudia.santos@ua.pt

Please include the submission number and author name in the transfer details. e.g.: 6ET Poster 53 Maria Silva

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Contacts & Venue

The conference will be held at the Amphitheatre of the Department of Environment and Planning (DAO) at the University of Aveiro. The workshops and pre-conference program will be announced soon. For more information contact the secretariat via email atypiportugal@gmail.com

Departamento de Comunicação e Arte
Universidade de Aveiro
Campus Universitário de Santiago
3810-193 Aveiro
Portugal

Telefone geral: 234 370 389

How to get here

Travelling to Portugal is very easy. There are several low-cost operators, being Ryanair and Easyjet the most common ones to fly to the main Lisbon and Porto airports.

From Porto, the easiest way to get here is to travel by train. You can catch a táxi (aprox. 20 € / 15 mins),or the metro (aprox. 1,80€ / 35 mins) to Campanhã train station. From there, travel by Alfa-Pendular (aprox. €14,20 / 30 mins), Intercidades, or Urbano (aprox. 3,40€ / 50 mins) to Aveiro.

From Lisbon, the easiest way to come to Aveiro is also by train. The metro connects the airport to the Oriente train station (aprox. 1,40€ / 10 mins). In Oriente you can catch an Alfa-Pendular (aprox. €26,30 / 2hrs), or Intercidades train (aprox. 20, 20€ / 2h20 mins) to Aveiro.

Trains: http://www.cp.pt/
Metro do Porto: http://www.metrodoporto.pt/
Metro de Lisboa: http://www.metrolisboa.pt/

At the Aveiro train station, you can walk to the University (aprox. 25 mins), ride a bus, linha 4 (aprox. 1,20 € / 15 mins), or catch a táxi (aprox. 5€ / 5 mins)

Buses (MoveAveiro): http://www.moveaveiro.pt

Where to stay

Aveiro has a wide array of Hotels, Hostels Guest Houses and Youth Hostals to choose from. We reccomend the following accomodations. If you choose any of the following, please mention the name of the conference to benefit from a promotional discount.

Hotel Afonso V

Rua Dr. Manuel das Neves, 65 | 3810-101 Aveiro - Portugal
Tel: +351 234 425 191 | Fax: +351 234 381 111
info@hotelafonsov.pt | www.hotelafonsov.pt

From 43,00 € to 60,00 € / night
Breakfast included

Hotel Imperial

Rua Dr. Nascimento Leitão
3810-108 Aveiro - Portugal
Telefone Geral : 234 380 150
Fax Reservas : 234 380 159
reservas@hotelimperial.pt | www.hotelimperial.pt

From € 39.50 to € 55.00 / night

Breakfast included | Wifi available in all areas

Hotel José Estevão

Telf: 234 383964 | Fax: 234 382570
Rua José Estêvão, nº 23 3800-202 Aveiro
www.joseestevao.com | info@joseestevao.com

From 35€ to 45€ / night

Breakfast included | Wifi available

Hotel As Américas

Tel.: +351 234 346 010 | Fax: +351 234 346 019
Rua Eng. Von Hafe, Nº 20 - Aveiro / 3800-176 Aveiro
www.hotelasamericas.com | info@hotelasamericas.com

From 65 € to 118 € / night
Extra bed: 24 € / night

Breakfast included | Wifi available in all areas

MELIÁ RIA HOTEL & SPA

Cais da Fonte Nova, Lote 5
3810-200 Aveiro, Portugal
T: +351 234 401000 F: +351 234 401009
melia.ria@meliaportugal.com

From 76 € to 86 € / night

Breakfast included | Wifi available
Mention the conference name at the reservation to benefit from an additional promotion.

Pousada da Juventude de Aveiro

Rua das Pombas, Edifício do IPDJ 3810-150 Aveiro Portugal
T. 351 234 482 233 | 351 217 232 101
aveiro@movijovem.pt | website

From 12,00€ (multiple) to 28,00€ (private with WC)
This is the most affordable and the closest accomodation to the University.

There is also a wide selection of Hostels and Guest Houses at affordable prices, such as
http://www.aveirorossiohostel.com/

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About the conference

Important Dates

1 June – 1 September Deadline extension until 20 September

Submission of proposals for communications (papers), posters, workshops & panel discussions

30 September 15 October:

Notice of acceptance

20 October:

Registration deadline (early bird fee)

20 November:

Registration deadline (regular fee)

2 & 3 December:

Pre Conference Workshops

4 & 5 December:

6^th Typography Meeting, University of Aveiro

Committees

Executive Committee

Pedro Amado (DeCA-UA / DigiMedia / ATypI)
Vítor Quelhas (ESMAE-IPP / ID+ / ATypI)
Jorge Brandão Pereira (IPCA / ID+ / LIPP)

Host Committee

Department of Communication and Art of the University of Aveiro (DeCA)

Pedro Amado (UA / DigiMedia / ATypI)
Vítor Quelhas (IPP / ID+ / ATypI)
Jorge Brandão Pereira (IPCA/ ID+ / LIPP)
Ana Veloso (UA / DigiMedia)
Nuno Dias (UA / ID+)
Olinda Martins (UA)
Ivo Fonseca (UA / ID+)
Liliana Costa (UA / DigiMedia)
Hélder Caixinha (UA / DigiMedia)

Scientific Commitee

 

Álvaro Sousa (UA)

Ana Catarina Silva (IPCA)

Ana Veloso (UA)

Andreu Balius (Type Republic)

Antero Ferreira (UP)

Artur Rebelo (UC)

Catarina Mendes (IPCA)

Catarina Lélis (UWL)

Catherine Dixon (UAL)

Daniel Raposo (IPCB)

Eduardo Manso (EMType)

Francisco Providência (UA)

Gerry Leonidas (UReading)

Helena Barbosa (UA)

Hugo d’Alte

Joana Correia (ESAD)

Joana Lessa (UAlg)

João Lemos (ESAD)

João Neves (IPCB/ESART)

Jorge Pereira (IPCA)

Jorge dos Reis (UL)

José Silva (IPCB/ESART)

Luís Moreira (IPT)

Margarida Azevedo (ESAD)

Marina Chaccur (ATypI)

Mário Moura (UP)

Mário Vairinhos (UA)

Miguel Carvalhais (UP)

Nuno Dias (UA)

Olinda Martins (UA)

Paulo T. Silva (IADE)

Pedro Amado (UA)

Pedro Beça (UA)

Priscila Farias (USP)

Rafael Dietzsch (UB)

Ricardo Santos (ESAD.CR)

Rúben Dias (ESAD.CR)

Rui Abreu (R-Typography)

Rui Costa (UA)

Rui Mendonça (UP)

Rui Raposo (UA)

Teresa Cabral (FA-UL)

Teresa Franqueira (UA)

Vítor Quelhas (IPP)

Previous Editions

The 6ET is an annual event held at different national institutions. Previous editions have helped create a national and international network of contacts and partnerships. Previous editions had the participation of international invited speakers such as Petr van Blokland, Steven McCarthy, Dino dos Santos, Catherine Dixon, Fred Smeijers, Eduardo Manso, Ricardo Rousselot, Gary Munch, Rúben Dias, Bruno Maag, Dave Crossland, Gerry Leonidas and Miguel Sousa.

V Typography Meeting

The 5th edition of the Typography Meeting, with the theme "Ubiquitous", was held at the Polytechnic Institute of Cávado and Ave (IPCA) in Barcelos on 28 and 29 November 2014. More information at: http://web.ipca.pt/5et/

IV Typography Meeting

The 4th edition of the Typography Meeting, with the theme “From inscription to writing”, was organized by the Polytechnic Institute of Castelo Branco and was held in the Old Cathedral of Idanha-a-Velha on 27 and 28 September 2013. More information at: http://et.ipcb.pt/

III Typography Meeting

The 3rd edition of the Typography Meeting, with the theme “Convergence”, was held in the Almeida Garrett Auditorium in Porto, on 5 and 6 October 2012. More information at: http://www.esmae-ipp.pt/3et/index2_pt.php

II Typography Meeting

The 2nd edition of the Typography Meeting, with the theme “Research & Application contexts", was held at the University of Aveiro, on 30 September 2011. More information at: http://entipografia.web.ua.pt/

I Typography Meeting

The first edition of the Typography Meeting, with the theme “Typography education in Portugal", was held at the School of Art and Design of Caldas da Rainha, on 27 May 2010.

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Publications

Book of abstracts

The abstracts of the papers accepted for communication at the conference were compiled and published into a book of abstracts with an ISBN. They were made available at the conference date and available to download here.

How to cite the book of abstracts: Amado, P.; Quelhas, V.; Pereira, J. (Eds.). (2015). 6.º Encontro de Tipografia: Livro de Resumos. Aveiro: Universidade de Aveiro. ISBN: 978-972-789-463-5. Available online at: http://6et.web.ua.pt/

Book of Abstracts

Conference Proceedings

The articles and posters submitted for the conference, were later reviewed, compiled and published into a Prooceedings Book identified with an ISBN. The book is available for download here: 6ET-Livro-Atas.

 

Proceedings Book

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Call for Papers, posters, workshops & Discussion Panels:

The 6th Typography Meeting, devoted to the "Perception" theme, calls for the submission of original contributions in different typography application contexts.

We expect papers and posters in the thematic areas in which typography, or type design, plays an important role. These areas cross the theory and practice. The print and digital media. The static, the dynamic and the interactive environments.

Paper and Poster submissions must be made online through the EasyChair online submission system. Submitted papers will be judged by the Scientific Committee in a double blind peer-review system.

The submission of proposal for workshops or panel discussions must be made by email and will be considered by the organization, within the available conditions.

The papers accepted for presentation (communication) at the conference will be published online in the conference proceedings, with an ISBN.

Thematic Areas

The call for papers is organized (but not limited) to the following thematic areas:

Typeface Design

The role and the influence of technology (analog or digital, either for production or for distribution) in current typeface design & font development practices. The methods and processes of type design (critical reviews or original designs).

Graphic & Editorial Design

Relevant typographical applications within the areas of Communication, Branding, Marketing, Visual and Corporate Identity. The impact on the perception of organizations, events or individuals, made possible by the development of specific typographic based design projects. The role of typography in the development and in the perception of different publishing media such as books, magazines and newspapers.

Multimedia & Digital devices

The role of typography in communication and entertainment media such as websites, online and offline interactive applications, and in technological mediated contexts such as mobile devices, television, movies, or video games.

Environmental & Product Design

Relevant typographical applications within the scope of production, identification, and packaging products or systems. Or in the architectural and environmental integration (such as signs or lettering for buildings, temporary spaces, or the creation of museology communication, exhibitions and physical experiences).

History, Culture & Education

The evolution of technology and the social impact it causes. The perception of change on the evolution of typography and its related disciplines. The role that education and teaching have had throughout the time. And also how these roles have changed over time and place.

Rules & Instructions

Papers (Communications)

For communications, participants should submit an abstract of up to 500 words according to the available model:

• Submission of proposals for communications (.docx format, according to the template);
• References formatted according to the norma APA standard.

docx (PT) docx (EN)

Posters

For the posters, participants must submit a (full) poster proposal including a summary with a minimum of 250 to a maximum of 500 words, according to the available model. We accept Posters in two main areas: scientific (resulting from research with explicit goals, state of the art, methodology, assumptions, results, references) and professional or academic projects (finished or in development):

• Posters submission (.pdf format, according to the template);
• References formatted according to the APA standard.

AI pdf

Workshops e Panel Discussions

The submission of proposals for workshops or panel discussions should be submitted to the email address (atypiportugal@gmail.com) according to the available template:

• Submission of proposals for workshops or panel discussions (.docx format, according to the available template).

docx (PT) docx (EN)

Submission Platform

The submission of papers and posters should be made through the EasyChair online submission system, available at: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=6et

EasyChair