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Redefining typographic teaching for shiny planes Gerry Leonidas Department of Typography & Graphic Communication University of Reading, UK Friday, 3 August 12

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Redefining typographic teaching Friday, 3 August 12

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readers client designer context: what others have done, and do now, under what technical parameters Br Id Biz Tgy Friday, 3 August 12

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for shiny planes Friday, 3 August 12

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The disembodiment of Typographic design reverses the design process. Friday, 3 August 12

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Observations Friday, 3 August 12

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1 Physical properties are no help in predicting potential uses Friday, 3 August 12

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2 People run out of time faster than they run out of options X Friday, 3 August 12

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3 There’s no such thing as “new media”, only new users Friday, 3 August 12

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4 Internationalisation and geography matter Friday, 3 August 12

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5 The permanent and ephemeral are reversed Friday, 3 August 12

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5 (and a half ) Materials become precious Friday, 3 August 12

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6 Traditional roles are questioned Friday, 3 August 12

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7 The market does not wait for teachers to write lesson plans Friday, 3 August 12

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Typographic challenges Friday, 3 August 12

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1 Support for text and typography is Not Good Enough Friday, 3 August 12

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2 Globally, even Not Good Enough would be awesome Friday, 3 August 12

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100 Ultra Light only > 60 mm 200 Light pullquotes 300 Light-ish nothing 400 Regular Body text 500 Medium Subheadings Friday, 3 August 12

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2 Typographers lose the reassurance of familiar, visible, tactile structures Friday, 3 August 12

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3 We lack great models for integrating inline and immersive content Friday, 3 August 12

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4 Texts are becoming nodes in networks, using volume-based conventions Friday, 3 August 12

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5 Paragraph-level typography is constant Friday, 3 August 12

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Conclusion Friday, 3 August 12

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This emerging typography is traditional at the paragraph level, and potentially innovative at the semantic level Friday, 3 August 12

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Predictions Friday, 3 August 12

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1 A few years of not much happening Friday, 3 August 12

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2 Local interfaces will adopt traditional solutions Friday, 3 August 12

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3 Personal aggregators will threaten traditional authorship models Friday, 3 August 12

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4 Knowledge platforms will push beyond ‘digital books’ when trust systems mature Friday, 3 August 12

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5 Authors, publishers, and some teachers will adapt faster than schools. Some students, too. Friday, 3 August 12

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So, what kind of Typography? Friday, 3 August 12

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1 A concern to communicate: to ensure that visual form reflects the language used, and its organisation reflects and reinforces its meaning Friday, 3 August 12

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2 A general understanding of the technical means at our disposal, and the ability to come to terms with technical limitations. Friday, 3 August 12

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3 To respect the needs of the reader, and make them central to designing Friday, 3 August 12

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4 Typography is planning in relation to these considerations, and usually in the context of a client, an industrial organisation, a budget, and a deadline. Friday, 3 August 12

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Typographer: specifies appearance and interaction with texts Friday, 3 August 12

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@gerryleonidas @typefacedesign Thank you Friday, 3 August 12