Take all of your type wonders and join us for the experience of a lifetime at this year’s A-Type-ical Design conference in none other than, Atlanta. This year’s theme, COALESCE, is all about bringing a vast array of typographic styles and people from all backgrounds together in a city known for its history of breaching the divide.
At Coalesce, you will experience and learn from some of the best typographic designers all coming from different backgrounds and all having their own unique style.
Our key speakers include David Carson, Zuzana Licko, Ray Larabie, Jeremy Dooley, Ahn Sang-Soo, and Moshik Nadav. This year we are including new interactive workshops. Join us at the start of the week in the MODA for some pre-type-hype workshops. Then, during the Coalesce conference, we will be hosting two workshops a day.
Join us for our grand finale workshop a special guest, Moshik Nadav, walks you through his process of hand lettering. We hope to see you in Atlanta this year. Come Coalesce!
speakers
Day One:
Zuzana Licko: 11:45 am
Jeremy Dooley: 3:30 pm
Ray Larabie: 11:45 am
Ahn Sang-Soo: 3:30 pm
Day Two:
Moshik Nadav: 11:45 am
David Carson: 3:30 pm
Day Three:
Join us in the Thomas Murphy Ballroom* in building B of the Georgia World Congress Center as six inspiring typographers share their journey and how they've gotten where they are today.
*All six speakers will be located in the Thomas Murphy Ballroom.
Workshops
Day One:
Day two:
Day three:
Digging Deeper into the Basics: 9:00 am
Font Design for Beginners: 10:30 am
Manipulating Fonts: 1:00 pm
Bitmap Fonts: 2:00 pm
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Illustrating Typefaces: 9:00 am
Women in the Field: 10:30 am
Motion Type: 1:00 pm
Starting Your Own Foundry: 2:00 pm
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Professional Development: 9:00 am
Students Entering the Workforce: 10:30 am
Portfolio Review: 1:00 pm
Hand Lettering with Moshik Nadav: 2:00 pm
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MOSHIK NADAV
Nadav’s father was a graphic designer and a calligrapher, so Nadav has always been in the face of typographic design. Much of his design work is heavily influenced by what he saw his father created. His distinct style can be attributed to his love of fashion and the admiration of the female form.
Ray larabie
Canadian typographic designer Ray Larabie is the man behind many typographic endeavors. From creating both open type and true type font files and the Coolvetica typeface, to creating the typefaces for popular video games Grand Theft Auto and Mass Effect, Larabie has a variety of clientel and personal work.
Ray larabie
David Carson
Carson is known for his experimental and grungy typographic work, and holds many titles to his name. Ranging from being a graphic designer and art director to professional surfer, it’s safe to say Carson has a variety of experience under his belt. Carson is most known for his experimentation with magazine design and the Ray Gun typeface, and his work with Ray-Bans, Nine Inch Nails, MTV, and many other well-established names.
Ahn sang-soo
Known as the godfather of Korean typography, Ahn Sang-Soo is known for his experimentation in typography. More often than not, Sang-Soo’s work is seen as a work of fine art, and not typographic design. The Korean alphabet has always had a strict form, but Sang-Soo has broken the standard of traditional design, and paved the road for experimental type in Korea.
zuzana licko
Licko is most commonly recognized for her typefaces Mrs. Eaves, a traditional serif, and Oakland, a bitmapped typeface.
Licko and her husband worked together to create some of the first digital typeface designs and digital page layouts, and later formed type foundry Emigre with her husband.
jeremy dooley
Join us in the Thomas Murphy Ballroom at 3:15 PM as Chattanooga-based typographer Jeremy Dooley, founder of Insigne, speaks on his design process. From his experiences from traveling the world to creating the first typeface for an American city, Dooley has gathered a mass of inspiration.
This year, we are hosting A-type-ical Conference at the Georgia World Congress Center in Atlanta, Georgia.
Join us in a city with its own style as we show you ours!