Evolving Graphic Design Symposium

Moderator: Mihyun Kim

Panelists:
Henrique Nardi / Tipocracia: a Two-Decade Brazilian Type Education Project
“Tipocracia: typographic state” is an educational project created in 2003 by Henrique Nardi to promote typographic culture in Brazil through courses, lectures, events, and the donation of books on design. Since then, over 150 workshops were taught in seventeen Brazilian states and abroad.

Dori Griffin / Type Specimens: radical inclusion in disciplinary narratives
Type Specimens (Griffin, Bloomsbury, 2022) frames a global narrative of typographic praxis, seeking to expand notions of what design is, who produces it, and how its success might be evaluated. Unpacking the complex process that I engaged in writing/designing the book offers concrete insight into how design discourses can evolve. As a designer, historian, and educator, I find it critical to evolve in response to equity, positionality, plurality, and the pursuit of redefined disciplinary narratives. Prioritizing process over outcome, this talk explores how radically inclusive design histories might come into being.

Mia Cinelli / Letterforms of the Past and Future: Speculative and Discursive Typography
How might recontextualizing historical letterforms or imagining new characters inform contemporary ideas and actions? Mia Cinelli’s Speculative Characters for Visual Inflection and Pandemic Parade Banners engage with speculative and discursive design, using references from the past to process current events and imagine possible futures.

Josephine Cutrara / Blank-Xious Space
"Blank-xious Space," is an interactive visual and sound installation that serves as experience to represent and hone in on the invasiveness of anxiety and its power in an isolated mindset and/or environment. Built around its' visitors interactive individual experience, it aims to engage and mediate their own mindset and agency of anxious. But, ultimately is an invitation to interact to any feeling, peace of mind, reaction.