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Thursday, May 21st

	Hall	Show	Stage	Type Lab	Foyer
2:00 pm	Jan Sowa Dialectics of design or the unbearable persistence of the Avant-garde
3:00 pm	Tina Roth Eisenberg The best way to complain is to make things	Jean François Porchez Adding value to the invisibility of typefaces	Lars Harmsen, Julia Kahl Paris – je t’aime moi non plus	Gayaneh Bagdasaryan Types of characters and characters of types	Langesommer, Amichai Green Workshop: Hebrew calligraphy
4:00 pm	Jon Burgerman Encourage the ferret.	Sofie Beier The typeface character	Christian Klier The “Späti” – A local study in Berlin	Yuliana Gorkorov BABEL2014
5:00 pm	Coffee break	Coffee break	Coffee break	Coffe break	Coffee break
6:00 pm	Oliver Reichenstein Structuring information	Jon Gray Facial tics and character flaws	Nina Stössinger Reversed contrast	José Scaglione, Veronika Burian Typography made to fit	Andreas Frohloff Calligraphy workshop
7:00 pm	George Zisiadis Designing for joy	Jan Bajtlik No risk no fun – bright sight of typography for younger and older	Supertype Building (typeface) character		Andreas Frohloff Calligraphy workshop
8:00 pm	Prof. Dr. Manfred Hild Myon – character facets of a humanoid robot
9:00 pm	Get-together (Foyer)	Get-together (Foyer)	Erik Spiekermann, Inga Albers, Johannes Erler »Hello I am Erik«	Get-together (Foyer)	Get-together: Mix and mingle; with DJane Bettibobikepunk and 1000 free beers

Friday, May 22nd

	Hall	Show	Stage	Type Lab	Foyer
11:00 am	Luc(as) de Groot To the extreme: LucasFonts	Jürg Lehni Robotic gestures, choreographed drawings and poetic machines			TrafoPop / Wear It, Letters Are My Friends Workshop: Type & Tech – Make your own glowing character bags
12:00 pm	Johannes Bergerhausen The medium is half the message: typography, characters & semiotics	Kenneth Jansson Designing a brand two weeks at a time	Harry Keller Debunking digital myths	Typejockeys It’s all about Schrift
1:00 pm	Lunch break	Lunch break	Lunch break	Lunch break	Paul van der Laan, Erik van Blokland TypeCooker Sketching Session
2:00 pm	Lunch break	Lunch break	Brigit Bircher, Indra Kupferschmid Helvetica Mondaine	Lunch break
3:00 pm	Ian Bowden Building Character: 20 years in Games.	Yves Peters Type with character(s) – reclaiming control over OpenType fonts	Jamie Neely Font Discovery: Finding the right typeface for the right job	Georg Seifert The wonderful world of emojis	Stefan Kiefer Creative workshop “Think Cover!”
4:00 pm	Peter Biľak The history and future of font licensing	Onur Yazıcıgil Continuous text typefaces versus display typefaces in the Ottoman Empire	Marlene Schufferth Designing for the user vs. designing for the client	Krassen Krestev Bulgarian Cyrillic: Identity in progress	Stefan Kiefer Creative workshop “Think Cover!”
5:00 pm	Coffee break	Coffee break	Coffee break	Jason Pamental Workshop Responsive Typography: Performance, Proportion & Polish on Every Device	Gayaneh Bagdasaryan Workshop: The true cyrillic K?
6:00 pm	Gemma O’Brien Death to inspirational quotes	Bertram Schmidt-Friderichs Character(s) – the basis of design	Strzeminski Academy of Fine Arts Lodz Projects of the Department of Graphic Design		Gayaneh Bagdasaryan Workshop: The true cyrillic K?
7:00 pm	Eric Jarosinski Nothing new. Nihilism as character development	Martin Tiefenthaler The credibility of (certain) characters	Jakob Maser Corporate types in communications design – The Bestiary

Saturday, May 23rd

	Hall	Show	Stage	Type Lab	Foyer
11:00 am	Aaron James Draplin Tall tales from a large man	Vitaly Friedman Real-life responsive web design			Andreas Frohloff Calligraphy workshop
12:00 pm	Josh Higgins Building a character	Jakob Runge FF Franziska: A bit of everything, please!	Bettina Reinemann Icon design: a thin line between love and hate	Atilla Korap The right type for ebooks and screens	Andreas Frohloff Calligraphy workshop
1:00 pm	Lunch break	Lunch break	Lunch break	Vitaly Friedman Workshop: Smart responsive design patterns & front-end techniques	Barış Atiker Stop Motion Typography Workshop
2:00 pm	Lunch break	Lunch break	Paul van der Laan, Erik van Blokland TypeCooker		Barış Atiker Stop Motion Typography Workshop
3:00 pm	Erik Spiekermann, Konstantin Grcic, Mateo Kries The DNA of design – attitude and role models	Mariko Takagi From typography to graphic types – playing with characters in Japanese inscription	Orhan Tançgil What design has to do with a passion for Turkish cuisine, and what colours have to do with spices	Eike Dingler Medieval detail in contemporary display typography	Drury Brennan Workshop: On point – Intro to Blackletter Scripts
4:00 pm	Christoph Amend Programme change: Attitude and Character in the Making of Magazines	Francesco Franchi Designing news	Kenzi Benabdallah HARAM TYPE – 30 days of lettering
5:00 pm	Coffee break	Coffee break	Coffee break
6:00 pm	Erik Kessels Confusion makes the world go round	Matthias Frey, Alexander Ginter, Marco Blaauw Designer on the verge of a nervous breakdown
7:00 pm	Christoph Niemann 2015 new likes

The grand finale: Saturday, 10 p.m. TYPO Night at Alte Teppichfabrik, Alt-Stralau 4, S-train station Ostkreuz // Directions // 10 Euro admission, free entry with TYPO badge

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