08/24/2018
We are happy to have Gerry Leonidas's workshops 'Looking at early type and typography' on 11th of September 2018 at in The Plantin Moretus. Read more about the conference's workshops at https://www.atypi.org/conferences/antwerp-2018
Every year Gerry Leonidas takes MATD students to the Plantin-Moretus to look at original items from the Museum’s collection. In this workshop he will offer a special version of the session, covering in depth the type and typography of a selection of incunables and early multiscript books that illuminate developments in typeface design and typography in the first two hundred years of printing that are still relevant today. The session will run twice, to enable a small number of participants to examine the original material closely.
Gerry Leonidas teaches and researches typography and typeface design at the University of Reading, UK. He supervises MA and PhD research, and lectures widely. He consults on publication and typeface design, reviews bodies of work, and runs knowledge-transfer projects with a twin focus on global business development and new education initiatives. He is the president of ATypI and a founding member of the Granshan Foundation, and helps organise ICTVC and other conferences. He is the Director of the MATD, and the TDi summer course; both are global reference points for type education. In 2017 he launched the MResTD, a new hybrid MA on research in typeface design.