Symposium Update #3

The deadline for proposals for the Logo Cities Symposium has now passed. Here is a brief review of confirmed panel and gallery participants (in no particular order; updated 20/4/07).

  • Vishal Rawlley (artist, Mumbai) Typocity: A documentation and analysis of typefaces in public spaces of Mumbai
  • pk langshaw and Carlos Pineda (Concordia) in significant sites of mexico
  • Will Straw (McGill University) Letters of Introduction: Film credits and cityscapes
  • Sarah Teasley (UMass Dartmouth) Silent Film and Commercial Art as Urban Intervention in Interwar Japan
  • Nancy Marrelli (Concordia U) The Evolution of Concordia University Logos and Signage
  • Ann McDonald (Northeastern U) Whose Skyline? Public private light, sign as sensor and node
  • Tom Russotti (Rutgers) Brooklyn Storefronts and Signs
  • Michael Golec (Iowa State) “Enjoy Coca-Cola,” the Discourse of the Other, and Lacan in an American City
  • Alex Bitterman (RIT) Defining Place Branding: A practical taxonomy for professionals and the public
  • Darren Wershler-Henry (Wilfrid Laurier) Sonic Signage: [murmur], the refrain, and territoriality
  • Bernard Zirnheld (Yale) Coming To Life: Advances in Reprographic Technology and the Architecture of Fin-de-siecle Paris
  • Karen Lewis (U. Kentucky) Yellowtown: The aesthetics of poverty, the graphic design of urgency
  • Laurie Churchman (U. Pennsylvania) TYPE AHOY: Technology, perception, and originality in boat graphics
  • David Gibson (Two Twelve Associates, NYC) People and Places: Signs symbols and landmarks, New York, Beijing, Dubai
  • R. Hakan Ertep (Izmir University of Economics) Chaos or Homogenisation? The role of store signs in transforming urban fabric in Beyoglu, Istanbul
  • Louis-Charles Lasnier (Atelier Louis-Charles Lasnier, Montréal) Signalisation intérieure, Nouvelle gare d’autocars de Montréal
  • Shannon Mattern (New School) Calligraphic Qatar: National typography and civic identity
  • David De Benedetto (Red Dye Studios, NYC) Typographic Historiography: Ideology and the cinematic assumptions of future urban signage
  • Patricio Davila (OCAD) A Thick Coating of Signs: Travels through suburban strip malls
  • Will Temple (North Carolina State U) Placing Demands: Challenging legibility in public space
  • Joey Medaglia (Ryerson) Explorations in Deconstruction/Reconstruction
  • Alessandro Colizzi (UQAM) Local Idioms from the Netherlands
  • Stuart McKee (U San Francisco) Street Democracy
  • John Armstrong, Louise Noguchi (Sheridan) & Paul Collins (École d’art de recherche de Caen la mer) Painting in Public (collaborative gallery installation)
  • Jason Lewis and Maroussia Levesque (Concordia) Cityspeak (gallery installation and panel presentation)
  • Matt Blackett ( Spacing magazine, Toronto)
  • Bill Kovacevic (Enseignes Transworld, Montréal)
  • Gary Hustwit (director of Helvetica, Brooklyn)
  • Hélène L’Heureux (Interaction/design, Montréal; directeur, Société des designers graphiques du Québec)

Anyone can register to attend the Symposium. There is currently a special preregistration rate which requires that the registration form is postmarked no later than April 1 (details here). Please note that seating for the Symposium is limited. (Symposium registration includes admission to the Québec premiere of Helvetica on May 5.)

If you don’t want to attend the Symposium, but you do want to join us for the screening of Helvetica on May 5, admission will be by donation on the night. (Please note that we will not be selling tickets for the screening; however, the auditorium we will be using holds 700 people.)

- posted Mar 21, 10:32 AM in

Comments

  1. Joe Austin, Apr 17, 12:44 PM:

    BRAVO! An interesting and long-ignored topic that deserves the attention that this network has lavished on it!

    That said, there is at least one glaring aspect missing: where are the “street” designers? Graffiti artists, poster-makers, wheat pasters, street artists, etc. Particularly in the case of the graffiti artists and psychedelic poster artists, there is SIGNIFICANT innovation on public signage/type and the use of public space as public sphere. If you are thinking of making your bibliography permanent (or considering a second conference on the topic), I will be happy to provide a short bibliography on these topics, which are as important as the sources on “folk signs” already in your list.

    Sorry I can’t attend! Good luck with this venture!

  2. Matt, Apr 17, 10:31 PM:

    Thanks for the encouraging words, Joe. I purposely left out these kinds of designers for two reasons: one, I think a great deal has already been written about these activities (way more than on lettering), precisely because it is such a vibrant arena of creativity (eg I think Banksy’s work is amazing); and, two, with such a limited amount of time, space (and funding) for the event, I wanted to maintain a really tight thematic focus. Anyway, please feel free to send in a copy of your bibliography. Cheers, Matt

  3. satish shah, Apr 30, 07:20 AM:

    first time i will see this kind of activity
    satish shah baroda-india

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