Typographics

Name: Typographics 2023 · New York City
Start: 2023-06-16
End: 2023-06-17
Location: New York City

Typographics is a design festival for people who use type, centred on a conference at The Cooper Union in New York City.

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Latest edition

June 2026

Location

New York City, United States

Format

Hybrid

Cadence

Annual

Organiser

Type@Cooper

About Typographics

Typographics is a design festival for people who use type, focused on contemporary typography and where its future may lie.

Organised through The Cooper Union's Type@Cooper programme and the Herb Lubalin Study Center of Design and Typography, it centres on a two-day conference of talks and is surrounded by workshops, tours, a book fair and the informal TypeLab sessions.

The festival takes place at The Cooper Union in New York City, with many activities also available online.

Editions

2026
26–27 Jun
New York City
18 speakers
2025
27–28 Jun
New York City
19 speakers
2024
14–15 Jun
New York City
16 speakers
2023
16–17 Jun
New York City
20 speakers
Speakers in 2023Speakers at Typographics 2023
16–17 JunNew York City
Beatriz Lozano
The Dimensionality of Type: Reimaging Letterforms Through Technology
Ben Grandgenett
Issues
Craig Ward
On Process and Perseverance
David Jon Walker
A Typographic Evolution
Eddie Opara
Regenerative Narrative(s)
Faride Mereb
Transformed by the Tropics: Migration and Visual Cues in Venezuelan Design
Gabriela Namie
Humming in UPPERCASE
Inês Ayer
Call to Action: Unlocking Advocacy Through Type
J. Dakota Brown
Typography and Automation from the Linotype to A.I.
Jonathan Barnbrook
Designing Bowie
L.A. Corrall
Typography and Storytelling
Lavinia Lascaris
Typography and Language in Exhibition Design
Muk Monsalve
Two to Tango
Pascal Zoghbi
Arabic Bold Nr.49
Rob Stenson
A Font Is a Percussion Instrument: Animating Letters with Sound, Animating Sound with Letters
Sagi Haviv
Type as Icon
Suzy Chan
Typography, Language, and Cultural Narrative
Tasheka Arceneaux-Sutton
A Historical Survey of Typography by Black People in America
Ximena Amaya
Typographic Emergencies: Imagining Through Letterforms
Ying Chang
Flowing in Letters: A Constant Pursuit of Tranquility Within Shapes and Space
2022
17–18 Jun
New York City
19 speakers

Speakers in 2023Speakers at Typographics 2023

16–17 JunNew York City

Beatriz Lozano
The Dimensionality of Type: Reimaging Letterforms Through Technology
Ben Grandgenett
Issues
Craig Ward
On Process and Perseverance
David Jon Walker
A Typographic Evolution
Eddie Opara
Regenerative Narrative(s)
Faride Mereb
Transformed by the Tropics: Migration and Visual Cues in Venezuelan Design

Gabriela Namie
Humming in UPPERCASE
Inês Ayer
Call to Action: Unlocking Advocacy Through Type
J. Dakota Brown
Typography and Automation from the Linotype to A.I.
Jonathan Barnbrook
Designing Bowie
L.A. Corrall
Typography and Storytelling
Lavinia Lascaris
Typography and Language in Exhibition Design
Muk Monsalve
Two to Tango
Pascal Zoghbi
Arabic Bold Nr.49
Rob Stenson
A Font Is a Percussion Instrument: Animating Letters with Sound, Animating Sound with Letters
Sagi Haviv
Type as Icon
Suzy Chan
Typography, Language, and Cultural Narrative
Tasheka Arceneaux-Sutton
A Historical Survey of Typography by Black People in America
Ximena Amaya
Typographic Emergencies: Imagining Through Letterforms
Ying Chang
Flowing in Letters: A Constant Pursuit of Tranquility Within Shapes and Space