Mark Barratt writes on the AtypI list: Three presentations from the Letter.2 conference in Buenos Aires in 2011 are now available on the ATypI site. Contributions from Peter Bilak, John Hudson, and Gerry Leonidas & Fiona Ross were captured on video and are the first of many to be published over the coming weeks and months.
They are at http://www.atypi.org/presentations/letter.2 Peter Bilak discusses the ‘Expanding possibilities of typography’, covering language, modern dance, rhythms, and... typography. John Hudson presents ‘Athena Ruby: when shape has meaning’, about the work of his foundry, Tyro Typeworks, in developing a typeface to meet the needs of scholars who catalogue and study Byzantine seals and coins. Gerry Leonidas & Fiona Ross, from Reading University's Department of Typography & Graphic Communication, talk about their approach to research-based design at the Department's well-known Masters degree course in typeface design, and approach summarised as ‘Think it through!’. All presentations are in English; introductions are in Spanish.
