Typoday is an annual international event that brings together designers in all stages of their careers (students, professionals, and academicians) to celebrate and discuss typography and its many facets. It comprises of workshops and seminars, as well as exhibitions and presentations relating to each years' themes. Typoday also includes a logo and poster design competition.
Every year, Typoday opens up a global competition for typographical posters, that follows a theme and brief. 25 winners are chosen each year, and they are entitled to free participation in the three days of the event. In addition to this, they will have their work published and exhibited at the event.
The focus for Typoday 2019 was 'Experimental Typography'. The poster brief provided was Design a poster to represent ‘The Dance of Typography’.
The detailed brief was as follows:
Design a poster to represent ‘The Dance of Typography’
You can use
- The Language, Script and Typeface of your choice. You can make use of one letter, one word, many words or even a paragraph composed of words.
- Calligraphic or digitally created letterforms or existing fonts, or a combination of these can be used for the poster.
- The Language, Script and Typeface of your choice. You can make use of one letter, one word, many words or even a paragraph composed of words.
- Calligraphic or digitally created letterforms or existing fonts, or a combination of these can be used for the poster.
The resulting poster should be of the size and specification given below.
This competition is open to students, faculty and professionals. The competition is open to all - non resident Indians, as well as foreign citizens can take part in it.
This competition is open to students, faculty and professionals. The competition is open to all - non resident Indians, as well as foreign citizens can take part in it.
Being a UI designer that believes function and form go hand in hand rather than follow each other, my design must have (and convey) meaning. The following poster is titled The Dots Are Dancing.
"I came across an article in the Journal of Visual Impairment and Blindness which discusses dyslexia among the visually impaired. Even though I knew dyslexia was a reading and learning disability, it had never occurred to me that visually impaired people who read braille could be dyslexic. A film titled Taare Zameen Par starred a young boy who was sent to boarding school as punishment because his parents thought his poor academic performance was due to a lack of seriousness, while understanding later that their son is dyslexic. In the film the boy says “The Letters Are Dancing”. This is in connection to dyslexic people being unable to decode the ‘image’ of what is written since reading is accomplished by taking a phonemic “image,” whether by sight or by touch, and sending it to the brain for decoding. Hence to a braille reader the dots may feel they’re dancing."
