Festival Schedule
Each day features talks and workshops led by prominent designers, artists, and technologists exploring the intersection of typography and technology. All event times are listed in Pacific Time (PT).
Monday, June 9
10:00 AM
Generative Type: Creating Algorithms for Typography
In this workshop, Rob Farmer will guide participants through creating generative typography using algorithms. Explore how computational design can manipulate letterforms, creating dynamic, evolving type that interacts with data and input. This hands-on session will dive deep into the world of creative coding and generative systems, offering new ways to think about the future of type.
Rob Farmer
As a designer and creative coder, Farmer explores the intersection of typography and computation. His work often employs generative systems to create dynamic, evolving letterforms that challenge traditional type design. With a background in both graphic design and coding, he creates projects that blur the boundaries between form and function, often using algorithms to generate unpredictable yet structured typographic compositions.
2:00PM
Typographic Play: Exploring Boundaries of Type and Image
Hikari Nishida’s workshop will focus on the fluid relationship between type and imagery. Participants will explore how to push the boundaries of letterforms, combining type with visual elements to create expressive, dynamic compositions. This session will explore the tactile nature of type, encouraging experimentation with various materials and techniques.
Hikari Nishida
Hikari Nishida is a designer and typographer whose work explores the intersection of type and image. Her practice is centered on the expressive and experimental potential of letterforms, often using tactile materials and digital techniques to push typography beyond its traditional role in communication.
6:30PM
Typography as Movement: Shifting Forms in Contemporary Type Design
Xiang-Xiang Lee will share her approach to creating type and graphic work that plays with transformation, rhythm, and fluid identity. Drawing from her background in both fashion and type design, Lee explores how letterforms can move — not just through animation, but through evolving shapes, layered narratives, and unexpected materials. In this talk, she will present a range of projects that investigate typography as a living system, challenging conventional boundaries and offering new ways of seeing and shaping language.
Xiang-Xiang Lee
Xiang-Xiang Lee is a type and graphic designer from Taipei, Taiwan, currently studying MA Type Design at ECAL in Lausanne, Switzerland. With a background in Fashion Design, her work often blurs the line between static and kinetic form, merging structure with softness, systems with spontaneity. Lee’s practice spans animation, publication, and experimental lettering, grounded in a curiosity about how type can shift, adapt, and tell stories across mediums.
Tuesday, June 10
10:00 AM
Interactive Typography in Digital Spaces
DIA Studio will showcase how typography can transcend traditional static design and become interactive in digital environments. Through this workshop, participants will learn how to create typographic compositions that react to user input, such as mouse movements or keyboard interactions, pushing the boundaries of how type is used in design and digital storytelling.
DIA Studio
DIA Studio is a New York-based design collective known for their kinetic approach to typography and branding. Specializing in motion and interaction, their work transforms static typography into dynamic experiences that respond to user behavior. Their projects have redefined digital branding through bold, interactive typographic experiments that bridge graphic design, motion, and code.
4:00PM
The Typography of the Future
Typeroom, a collective of typographic innovators, will explore the future of typography in digital and physical realms. They’ll delve into generative type, immersive experiences, and how typography will shape digital spaces in the coming years. This talk will cover the shifting boundaries of what type can be and how the digital age is shaping its evolution.
Typeroom
Typeroom is a digital platform dedicated to showcasing experimental and boundary-pushing typography. Their work and research explore the past, present, and future of type, from classic letterpress techniques to the latest digital innovations. They actively highlight designers who redefine how type interacts with technology, space, and culture.
Wednesday, June 11
10:00 AM
Interactive Letterforms: Designing Typography for Play
Chae Byungrok brings an exciting workshop where typography becomes playful and interactive. Participants will learn how to design letterforms that respond to touch, motion, and sound. This hands-on session explores how to design letterforms that blur the lines between type and experience, transforming typography into something users can interact with in real-time.
Chae Byungrok
Chae Byungrok is a Seoul-based designer whose work focuses on playful, interactive typography. By combining type with elements of game design and interactivity, he challenges conventional approaches to letterforms. His projects often blur the line between text and experience, making type something users can touch, manipulate, and explore.
2:00PM
Typographic Mapping: Creating Patterns with Letterforms
In this workshop, Mònica Losada will guide participants in creating typographic patterns inspired by natural forms, urban landscapes, and cultural symbols. Using modular letterforms, attendees will learn how to design intricate, layered compositions that create dynamic visuals. This workshop will challenge traditional typographic thinking and inspire new ways of approaching letterforms.
Mònica Losada
Mònica Losada is a graphic designer and typographer who specializes in modular and pattern-based typography. Her work often draws inspiration from architecture, landscapes, and cultural motifs, transforming letterforms into intricate visual systems. She is known for using typography as a structural and decorative element, creating dynamic, layered compositions.
6:30PM
Language, Context, and Form
Sandra Kassenaar will share her design practice centered on language, context, and visual culture. Known for her research-driven and socially engaged approach, she explores how typography operates across cultural and political frameworks. Her work questions ideas of legibility, authorship, and identity, positioning the designer as both observer and participant.
Sandra Kassenaar
Sandra Kassenaar is a graphic designer and educator based in Amsterdam. Her work spans type design, editorial, and exhibition design, often grounded in cultural research. She collaborates regularly with artists and curators and contributes to MacGuffin magazine. Kassenaar has taught at institutions including the Gerrit Rietveld Academie, with a practice that reflects deep curiosity about how design functions in context.
Thursday, June 12
10:00 AM
Spatial Type: Motion, Form, and Dimensional Design
Dennis Hoelscher will share his approach to creating expressive typographic systems in motion and 3D. Working at the intersection of type, abstraction, and spatial design, Hoelscher explores how letterforms can evolve into dynamic, procedural structures that shift, fold, and respond in real time. In this talk, he’ll walk through selected projects that blend creative direction with technical experimentation—inviting new ways of seeing typography as immersive experience rather than static object.
Dennis Hoelscher
Dennis Hoelscher is an independent Motion & 3D Artist based in Cologne, specializing in creative direction. His work explores the fusion of typography and abstract, procedural forms in three-dimensional space, crafting dynamic visual experiences. By bringing these elements to life through motion, his creations engage and interact with audiences in unique and immersive ways.
4:00PM
Algorithmic Type Design: Creative Coding in Typography
Anatoly Grashchenko will lead a hands-on workshop exploring the intersection of creative coding and type design. Participants will learn how to use generative algorithms to create bespoke letterforms and explore how randomness and system-based design processes can produce unique and experimental typography.
Anatoly Grashchenko
Anatoly Grashchenko is a designer and programmer working at the intersection of typography and creative coding. His work explores the potential of generative type design, using algorithms to create ever-changing letterforms. By embracing randomness and computational logic, he develops typographic systems that evolve in response to data, movement, and external inputs.
Friday, June 13
10:00 AM
The Evolution of Interactive Typography
Yehwan Song will take participants on a journey through the evolution of interactive typography, from early experiments to current interactive designs. This talk will showcase the way typography has been used to engage audiences beyond the page and screen, transforming traditional design concepts into interactive, participatory experiences.
Yehwan Song
Yehwan Song is an interactive designer known for her unconventional web-based typography and digital experiments. Her work subverts standard web design norms, creating interfaces where text moves, responds, and reacts in unexpected ways. By pushing the boundaries of user interaction, she redefines how audiences engage with typography in digital spaces.
2:00PM
Type in the Context of Digital Identity
BANK will lead a workshop focused on the role of typography in crafting digital identities. This session will explore how type can influence a brand’s voice and presence in the digital space, from website design to app interfaces, and how creative typography can form the cornerstone of a digital identity that is both functional and expressive.
BANK
BANK is a Germany-based design studio focused on contemporary typography, branding, and digital identities. Their work explores how type plays a role in shaping brand narratives and online experiences, blending expressive letterforms with functional design. Their projects range from experimental type treatments to large-scale branding systems.
6:30PM
Type as a Metaphor: Typographic Design in Systems
Catalogtree will discuss how they use typography as a metaphor for systems and structures. In this talk, they will explore the connection between type and information, as well as how type can function as a visual language for complex systems, helping to communicate abstract concepts through typographic forms.
Catalogtree
Catalogtree is a design studio founded by Daniel Gross and Joris Maltha, specializing in data-driven design, systems thinking, and generative typography. Their work often transforms complex information into visually compelling typographic systems, reflecting their deep interest in structure, randomness, and computation. By treating type as both data and metaphor, they create works that challenge traditional forms of communication.
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