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Shaily Patel : View from the Balcony: Story of a font with a difference. 23rd October 2021

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YouTube Link: https://youtu.be/45UiNQ_WEN4 Shaily Patel is a fresh graduate from the Department of Applied Arts, Faculty of Fine Arts, M.S.University, Vadodara, Gujarat. With a keen interest in type design and typography, she has been developing typefaces since three years, in Indian scripts as well as English. She aims to pursue a career in type design and explore possibilities of font design in Indic scripts. While attending Juan Villanueva’s “Display Type Class” at Cooper Union, Shaily designed a high contrast Latin font named Maya, with peculiar triangular serifs and lots of interesting improvisations in form. Shaily launched her first type family - Balcony - A Type Family Inspired by safety grilles— on ‘MyFonts’ in February 2021. Her work has been recognised, alongside seven other women, as ‘Women of Typographic Excellence’ in The Malee Scholarship 2020 by Sharp Type, New York. She is a recipient of the “Certificate of Typographic Excellence” in 24 th Annual TDC Ty...
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Prof Mahendra Patel: Design Experience. 2nd October 2021

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 YouTube Link: https://youtu.be/0YwLIiF3fRA
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Narayana Bhattathiri: Talk on Expression and Innovation in Calligraphy. 19th June 2021

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 YouTube Link: https://youtu.be/r640EYzYBSM
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Dr Fiona Ross speaking on 27th March 2021

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Typography Society of India Online Design Lecture Series Session #13: Speaker: Dr Fiona Ross Topic: Research-based practice in designing type for South Asian scripts YouTube Link: https://youtu.be/7R2DBb56-Jw Abstract:   Dr Fiona Ross will discuss a design methodology that advocates research-based practice to advance the possibilities for effective visual communication in writing systems beyond those that use the Latin script. Amply illustrated by relevant examples from her extensive work with South Asian scripts, Fiona’s talk will consider how different kinds of resources can inform design practice in the field of type and typography­ – and thereby answer the current needs of diverse linguistic communities. It will highlight by means of specific case studies how the re-evaluation of past practices and critical engagement with current conventions underpins best practice. It will demonstrate how informed design decisions in conjunction with new technologies can offer better solution...
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Muthu Nedumaran Speaking on Font Design, Font Engineering and Annai Multiscript Tyeface. 6th March 2021 at 5:00pm IST

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Date: 6th March 2021 Time: 5:00pm Speaker: Muthu Nedumaran Topic:   Font Design, Font engineering and Annai-Multiscript Typeface Live Streaming on: https://hasgeek.com/tsi/6march    and youtube.com/hasgeek About The speaker: Renowned Type designer and font engineering expert,  Muthu Nedumaran has over three decades of experience in typography. He started out by drawing large banners and posters with Tamil and Latin inscriptions while he was at school in the 70s. His initial works in the digital space were bit mapped fonts for the computer screen and dot matrix printers. Fast foreword a few decades, Muthu’s type design for all of the Indic and Indo-Chinese scripts are now bundled into operating systems like Mac OS X, Windows, iOS and Android. The popular Tamil type called 'Inaimathi' continues to render Tamil text beautifully on iPhones, iPads, HTC Android devices and even the Apple Watches. The same typeface is used as the standard type for Tamil text by the Minist...
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Master Calligrapher Achyut Palav shares his experiences of Calligraphic Journey. 30th January 2021

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Session 11 of Design Lecture Series organised by Typography Society of India. 30th January 2021 Video of the talk https://youtu.be/8hNbc7-n1X0   About the speaker: Achyut R. Palav Calligrapher & Designer   Achyut Palav is one of the most important names in Indian calligraphy today. With his unique approach, dedication and faith in the aesthetic appeal and potential of Calligraphy as an art form, Achyut has made significant contributions in reviving the glory of Indian calligraphy. His mission is to bring traditional and modern calligraphy to the masses. He goes beyond putting pen to paper to create an expression or style. He believes that each letter is a design in itself & a letter or symbol has the potential of a becoming a piece of art, whether painted individually or as a composition. Born and brought up in Mumbai, Achyut completed his studies in Applied Art from Sir J.J. Institute of Applied Art in 1982, specializing in lettering, typog...
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Typography Society of India. Design Lecture Series.12th December, 2020. Ms Anagha Narayanan.

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Typography Society of India. Design Lecture Series.  Talk No: 10 Date: 12th December, 2020.  Time: 5:00pm Speaker: Ms Anagha Narayanan. Topic : "Ilai: Variable typeface in Tamil — a case study" This is available in YouTube:  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_ZYlMBBir2w Please subscribe to the Youtube channel of Typography Society of India. Live stream on : https://hasgeek.com/tsi/12dec/ Anagha Narayanan is a type designer from Hyderabad, India. From childhood, Anagha has been immersed in art and design, and has vivid memories of her father’s offset printing press. She has always been fascinated by letters, drawing them and collecting them in ephemera like postcards. Anagha is inspired by how type design is so closely knitted with culture and history, and does the task of preserving it graphically. She has interned at Black [Foundry] in Paris, and works at Universal Thirst in Bangalore, where she contributes to the design and development of various Indic typefaces. Anag...
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