Online conference program: 30—31 of May and 6—7 of June / Moscow (program to be determined)

MAY 30 online (Moscow time (+3))

16:00
Opening of the festival

with the support of The Swiss Arts Council Pro Helvetia

Jonas Voegeli is a Swiss graphic designer whose work is dedicated to book and editorial design, art direction, and corporate identity/brand development. Despite honoring the roots to a modernist tradition, his approach to design solutions varies: bridging conceptual, strategic, and experimental approaches with a progressive outlook towards the contemporary practice of graphic design and its means ... подробнее

with the support of The Swiss Arts Council Pro Helvetia

Daniel Peter is a designer and art director based in Bern. He creates visual concepts for culture, art, music and advertising. His competences include graphic design, typography, editorial, interaction and web design, motion, object and exhibition design. Other activities consist of lectures and workshops. herrpeter.ch Instagram @herrpeterrrr People of Print (en) Creative Boom&nb... подробнее

"Demon Press" — letterpress studio, publishing and educational project of Sergey Besov and Evgeny Perfiliev. This is a story about printing with old presses, about careful attention to paper, illustrations and design. demon-press.com partisanpress.art Instagram @demonpress Lecture: How we published the book "Gutenberg's Apprentice"     подробнее

The Placeholder library is a project by Sasha Bereznikova, Yulia Kondratieva and Zhenya Nechaeva, Moscow designers. We decided to make designer books available. The library is formed from personal collections and is regularly updated with books of friends and regular readers. The main goal of the library is to give everyone an opportunity to look at books with decent graphic and technical desig... подробнее

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Zaratan, a living creature described in the book of imaginary beings by Jorge Luis Borges, becomes an independent space for books, photography and music in Siracusa (Sicily, Italy), through the collaboration of Giovanni Fiderio, violinist in the bands Tapso II and Mashrooms, and Maria Vittoria Trovato, freelance documentary photographer. Opened in September 2018, Zaratan is a bookshop and a place ... подробнее

Онлайн-школа дизайна и иллюстрации Bang Bang Education. https://bangbangeducation.ru Основа программы — система курсов по дизайну, типографике, иллюстрации и смежным наукам. В школе преподают предметы, которые закрывают важные пробелы в современном арт-образовании на русском языке. Это база и техника для тех, кто пришел в дизайн и иллюстрацию не из художественной школы, о теории для думающих... подробнее

with the support of The Swiss Arts Council Pro Helvetia

Dafi Kühne is a Swiss designer who works with analogue and digital techniques to produce fresh and unique letterpress-printed posters. Over the past decade, Dafi salvaged more than 30 tons of redundant letterpress printing equipment that he is now using to design and produce his work. Fusing modern means with the century-old tradition of letterpress, he forms a new vocabulary for how to communicat... подробнее

MAY 31 online (Moscow time (+3))

16:00
Introduction - Alexandr Vasin and Natalia Velchinskaya

Maria Doreuli is the founder of an independent studio Contrast Foundry. In 2018, craving for new challenges, she relocated to San Francisco. Focusing on type design, Maria believes in the power of emotion and working with passion. She’s open to new opportunities and aims to experiment more to find unexpected forms of expression.   contrastfoundry.com  @contrastfoundry подробнее

organizational partner Groza.design

After studying at the Moscow Polygraph, Berlin HTW, Potsdam FHP, and at the TypeMedia permanent course in The Hague, Daria found peace in Berlin, all days creating friendly, decent fonts for LucasFonts, and at night devoting her soul to drawing wild letters and exploring makabra. After all, friendly fonts will soon be forgotten, she really believes in it. Daria is the author of the Zangezi font, t... подробнее

organizational partners: Embassy of the Netherlands, Embassy of the Finland

Underware is a rock-hard font foundry with a whole lot of feeling for real type. Stunning retail fonts, exclusive branding, some custom type, own freaky design tools, you name it. Sweating & rocking in Den Haag, Helsinki and Amsterdam. Founded by Akiem Helmling, Sami Kortemäki and Bas Jacobs in 1999. Zealotry wouldn’t be an inappropriate collective noun for Underware. They not only design typ... подробнее

Alexandra Korolkova is font designer, book designer, typographer, theorist of type and typography based in Moscow. Art Director of Paratype. The ninth laureate of the Charles Peño Prize (2013). The author of the book "Living typography" and of several articles. Lead font designer PT Sans, PT Serif, Circe, Golos RF and others. She participated in the conferences ATypI, T... подробнее

With the support of Morisawa

Morisawa Type Design Competition has been giving birth to new typeface designs for decades since the first competition held in 1984. Through entries with bold ideas and new attempts in anticipation with unprecedented expressive capacity, the last competition in 2016 received more than 700 entries from 49 countries and regions, including both Kanji and Latin categories en.morisawa.co.jp &nb... подробнее

The Placeholder library is a project by Sasha Bereznikova, Yulia Kondratieva and Zhenya Nechaeva, Moscow designers. We decided to make designer books available. The library is formed from personal collections and is regularly updated with books of friends and regular readers. The main goal of the library is to give everyone an opportunity to look at books with decent graphic and technical desig... подробнее

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Онлайн-школа дизайна и иллюстрации Bang Bang Education. https://bangbangeducation.ru Основа программы — система курсов по дизайну, типографике, иллюстрации и смежным наукам. В школе преподают предметы, которые закрывают важные пробелы в современном арт-образовании на русском языке. Это база и техника для тех, кто пришел в дизайн и иллюстрацию не из художественной школы, о теории для думающих... подробнее

Ilya is a type and graphic designer and teacher, lives and works in Barcelona. He is a graduate of the Moscow State University of the Printing Arts (2002), where his graduation project was done under the supervision of Alexander Tarbeev. He has a MA degree in type design from the Type & Media program at the Royal Academy of Art in The Hague (2005). After completing the program, he returned ... подробнее

Majid Abbasi is design director of Studio Abbasi active in the international community, based in Tehran and Toronto. He leads a variety of design projects for start-ups, non-profits and educational organizations worldwide. Majid Abbasi is informed by more than two decades of experience as the co-founder of the prestigious Did Graphics Inc. from 1991 to 2013. He enjoys providing consultat... подробнее

supported by Glyphs

A trained photographer, Rainer Erich (Eric) Scheichelbauer (b. 1977 in Vienna, Austria) holds both a philosophy and a Dutch studies degree. He creates typefaces, works as a digital punchcutter for other type designers, and gives type design workshops on a regular basis. Since he has joined the Glyphs team in 2012, he has been writing articles, tutorials, and Python scripts, as well as the blog and... подробнее

JUNE 6 online (Moscow time (+3)) 18+

with the support of Goethe Institut

Dr. Stefan Soltek, born 1956 in Cologne, Germany, studied history of art at Cologne and Bonn University. His dissertation about a medieval baptismal font made him studiing bookart from early periods. After a volunteer-stage at the Landesmuseum Kassel he became curator of the Linel collection for bookart and grafics at the museum of applied arts in Frankfurt. Since 2002 he is in charge of the Kling... подробнее

Sigrid Artmann is a calligrapher, visual and performance artist, tutor based in Ludwigsburg. Sigrid began learning classic calligraphy with international calligraphers such as Prof. Gottfried Pott, Denis Brown, Yves Leterme, Laurent Pflughaupt, Thomas Ingmire, Brody Neuenschwander and many others. For many years now she has been creating her own kind of art by reflecting the power of wor... подробнее

Victoria Lopukhina and Vitalina Lopukhina (VikaVita) are artists, calligraphers, graphic designers and teachers. We specialize in creating calligraphic works, letters in different techniques, wall painting. As well as we work with the development of identities, logos for different brands. We are developing copyrighted calligraphy courses, because teaching has become a part of our life since 2012. ... подробнее

Calligrapher, graphic designer, artist. Co-founder of the design and calligraphy workshop “Special Invitation” (Moscow). The author of a unique methodology for creative teaching children the alphabet "Teatro de letras". Founder of the accessories and clothing brand "YULIA HARINA".   http://artfashion.yuliaharina.com @artfashion.studio http://logos.yuliaharina.com @harinayulia ... подробнее

Oleksiy Chekal is a Ukrainian graphic designer, calligrapher, and art critic who specializes in complex intercultural and interlanguage design tasks in the field of museum, scientific and religious projects (Christianity, Judaism, Islam). Oleksiy works as a calligrapher and typographer with different scripts in Europe and the Middle East. He also has over twenty years of experience in creating fon... подробнее

The Placeholder library is a project by Sasha Bereznikova, Yulia Kondratieva and Zhenya Nechaeva, Moscow designers. We decided to make designer books available. The library is formed from personal collections and is regularly updated with books of friends and regular readers. The main goal of the library is to give everyone an opportunity to look at books with decent graphic and technical desig... подробнее

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With the support of The Netherlands Embassy

High on Type is a collective of five designers and artists who share a passion for letters: Guido de Boer, Vincent de Boer, Hans Schuttenbeld, Ivo Brouwer, Julien Priez. To share their knowledge and skills with the like-minded, they often organise workshops, lectures and other events. They offer you a range of new insights, visions and visuals. All Eyes on Type is own ... подробнее

Pokras Lampas is a Russian artist and calligrapher, working in the style of "calligrafuturism", calligraffiti. He experiments with calligraphy and imagines what it will look like in tens and hundreds of years. Using symbols of different alphabets, Pokras paints canvases with words in a certain style, and also looks for ways to create unusual compositions from words, invents new forms of letters an... подробнее

with the support of Jewish Museum

Michel D’Anastasio — calligrapher, artist and graphic designer. The turning point in his artistic carrier is summer 2004. Shortly after having discovered the fact his Maltese family origins come from Jewish background deep in history his voyage to Holy Land opens to him a way to the Hebrew letters. Ever since he has become one of two major specialists in modern Hebrew calligraphy in Europe. After ... подробнее

20:20
Vadim Bunkov and Yuri Gorodon

For the 135th anniversary of Velimir Khlebnikov, Boris Trofimov's creative workshop (Institute of business and design) presents an art project: a bilingual publication of supernovel "Zangezi". The Russian and English parts are combined under one cover, just as the star language unites different worlds. Languages meet each other and meet in the middle of the book, where a large typographic block is... подробнее

Supported by Groza.design

Sergey Pakhomov (Pakhom) - showman, underground actor, avant-garde musician, extraordinary artist and participant of the show “The Battle of extrasensory”. From 2001 to 2010 he worked as art director of magazines ELLE DECOR, ELLE, MARIE CLAIRE. Pakhom left a remarkable trace in cinema, appearing in the main role in the film “Green Elephant”, and his music album “Boncha” was named by Artemy Troit... подробнее

JUNE 7 online (Moscow time (+3))

Арт-директор, дизайнер, цифровой художник из Москвы. Креативный директор российской компании Silasveta — пионеров в области светового мэппинга. Среди его проектов — шоу для крупнейших мировых компаний и площадок. Участник и лауреат многочисленных фестивалей света и дизайна. Активно исследует пограничные области между сценографией, дизайном и технологиями. silasveta.com подробнее

Sergey Shanovich — producer, director, designer. Founder and creative director of the SHANDESIGN Studio. Member of the Academy of Russian Television since 2004. Author of original fonts and Cyrillic versions of Latin typefaces. Sergey Shanovich's works have been awarded Russian and international awards. shandesign.pro Facebook Instagram @shandesign_pro подробнее

Онлайн-школа дизайна и иллюстрации Bang Bang Education. https://bangbangeducation.ru Основа программы — система курсов по дизайну, типографике, иллюстрации и смежным наукам. В школе преподают предметы, которые закрывают важные пробелы в современном арт-образовании на русском языке. Это база и техника для тех, кто пришел в дизайн и иллюстрацию не из художественной школы, о теории для думающих... подробнее

with the support of Hungarian cultural center

The Budapest (Hungary) based Compact Graphic Design Studio hold a creative co- operation between two graphic designers Áron Borbély and Gergő Faragó and one project/design manager. The Studio’s works shows a conceptual vision in which complex, professional design mixes with alternative solutions. In the field of graphic design they like to create different things whether it is branding, motion gra... подробнее

Erken Kagarov is a leading specialist in graphic design and branding, art-director Art. Lebedev Studio. Member of the Academy of Graphic Design, ADCR, Moscow Union of Artists and the Union of Designers. Founder of Imadesign. Some works were awarded at competitions, are in private collections and the Tretyakov gallery. He devotes a lot of time to projects in the field of urban environment, he wa... подробнее

The Placeholder library is a project by Sasha Bereznikova, Yulia Kondratieva and Zhenya Nechaeva, Moscow designers. We decided to make designer books available. The library is formed from personal collections and is regularly updated with books of friends and regular readers. The main goal of the library is to give everyone an opportunity to look at books with decent graphic and technical desig... подробнее

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with the support of British Higher School of Art and Design

Digital artist, typographer, and graphic designer with a multidisciplinary profile focused on programming, procedural design, visual communication, industrial design and applied arts. In 2017 she engaged with Yale's Architecture School researching conceptualization of surface design in three-dimensional mediums, an experience that enabled her to also experiment with digital fabrication processes. ... подробнее

19:40
Vadim Bunkov and Gayane Baghdasaryan

Vasily Shikhachevsky is a graphic and a motion designer, a professor at the Higher School of Economics. Whatever i’m doing i can’t help a feeling that i’m doing it wrong. One reason why that happens is because of so many talented designers around me. There are amazing motion designers in Russia and i’m very lucky to be friends with some of the best of them. I believe that bringing talented pe... подробнее

organizational partner: Shuka.design

Partner & Creative Director of DIA_studio  Graphic Designer, Type Designer, Jazz Pianist  Teaching in HEADGENEVE  Formerly ecal_ch  Member of AGI подробнее

21:35
Announcement of the results of Typomania typography video contest