Fundamentals of Web Typography
This tutorial is cancelled. We apologise for the inconvenience.
Aim
The aim of this tutorial is to sensitise participants to the
visual, functional and technical aspects of typography on the web with
reference to the technological tools available today.
Content
This tutorial starts off with talks and short presentations
designed to inform the participants on use of type for websites. The
initial talks focus on the basic principles of typography and design;
later on we focus on how to apply these to the web, and how to translate
them through available tools. The remaining part of the tutorial consists
of on hands-on exercises where participants would be asked to apply these
fundamental typographic principles into actual web-pages. Participants
would also be made aware of the technical and visual requirements of
setting Indian (languages) scripts on the web and hence would be encouraged
to create web pages for the same.
Who should attend?
As pre-requisites, participants are expected to know the basics
the HTML and CSS. However no prior knowledge of typography is required.
In order to take part in the hands on exercises, participants are requested
to bring their own laptops, preferably with Dreamweaver installed on
it.
A short biography of the tutor
Girish Dalvi graduated in Computer Engineering from the University
of Pune; and completed his post graduation in New Media Design from the
National Institute of Design, Ahmedabad. Following this he joined Yahoo
Technologies and worked on web based Indian Language projects first as
an intern and later as an independent consultant. Presently he is a teaching
assistant at the Industrial Design Centre and visiting faculty at the
Tata Institute of Social Science. He teaches Typography, User Experience
Design and Cyberculture. Since 2006 he is pursuing his doctoral research
at the Industrial Design Centre in the Indian Institute of Technology
Bombay. His areas of focus in research include the history of Devanagari
typography, Typeface Design, Indian Language Computing, and Classification
Theories. Currently he is working towards constructing a conceptual model
for structural analysis of Devanagari typefaces. In his free time he
reads and typesets his favourite books.
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