SEATING NOTES
Our main track is held in the YBCA theater, which seats 750. The supplementary track in the screening room has limited capacity and seats 100. The screening room will be cleared out between each session. Seating is first-come, first-served.
FRIDAY NIGHT AFTER PARTY
TYPO Afterparty: Friday, May 1, 7pm — 10 pm | Public Works Loft (Map) TYPO badge holders must arrive by 10pm. Bring your badge for admittance. Must be age 21 or over to attend.
| YBCA Theater | Screening Room | |
|---|---|---|
10:00 am |
Jen Bilik
Losing Focus to Find Focus (& Vice Versa): A Tale of Creativity, Business & Self |
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11:00 am |
Menno Cruijsen
Lava Around the World |
Carolina de Bartolo
Timeless Principles of Good Design: Fitness, Firmness, Delight |
12:00 pm |
Lunch |
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1:00 pm |
Tash Wong
Oh Sh!t, I Have to Make It Now. Stories of Becoming a Creative Entrepreneur. |
Adam Lewis Greene
Bibliotheca: A Crowdfunded Typographic Expression of the Biblical Library |
2:00 pm |
Joachim Sauter
Poetry is the new black |
Nataly Gattegno
Experiments and Utopias |
3:00 pm |
Agustin Garza
Un-Focused. Lessons learned from Peripheral Vision. |
Rob Saunders
What’s a Letterform Archive? |
4:00 pm |
Coffee Break |
|
5:00 pm |
Louise Sandhaus
Earthquakes, Mudslides, Fires & Riots: Making a History of California Graphic Design |
Mark Simonson
The Romance of Offset |
6:00 pm |
Chip Kidd
Goats and the Men Who Ride Them |
| YBCA Theater | Screening Room | |
|---|---|---|
10:00 am |
Sarah Hyndman
Tasting Type |
Jeremy Liu
What’s Bitterness Got To Do With It? |
11:00 am |
Nadine Chahine
At a Glance |
Thomas Phinney
Font Detective 2: Extra Bold |
12:00 pm |
Lunch |
|
1:00 pm |
Erik Marinovich
Everything After Z |
Alastair Johnston
Double Scotch: the Austin foundry’s role in the development of modern type |
2:00 pm |
Sumner Stone
Letterform/Humanform |
Marco Walser
Low End Theory – The Making of Ideas |
3:00 pm |
Ellen Lupton
Vision is a Process |
Yusef Alahmad
Elevating Graphic Design Standards in Saudi Arabia. |
4:00 pm |
Coffee Break Sponsored by Vermont College of Fine Arts |
|
5:00 pm |
Daniel Gjøde
Young and Stupid |
Arin Fishkin
Designing for Burning Man |
6:00 pm |
Tobias Frere-Jones
In Letters We Trust |
PARTNER EVENTS
Wednesday, April 29:
AIGA San Francisco Panel with Louise Sandhaus | Off The Richter Scale!: California Graphic Design 1936-1986
Fifty free spots for TYPO Focus attendees. Watch your inbox for registration link or email us at sanfrancisco@typotalks.com.
Thursday, April 30:
