Tuesday, 11 April 2006 | Levent OZLER
Interrogating Type on World Graphic Design Day
AGDA ACT will celebrate World Graphic Design Day, in Canberra this year by presenting "Dr Type", Dr Anthony Cahalan, "Interrogating Type".
Typefaces are essential to a designer's ability to communicate visually. The late twentieth century witnessed the democratisation and internationalisation of typeface design and usage. This was significantly due to the ease of access to desktop computer technology and a related exponential growth in the number of typefaces available to users of type.
Anthony Cahalan looks at the way designers and professional users of typefaces saw the type design industry from the inside. He provides "snapshots in time" of typeface design. In his presentation for World Graphic Design Day 2006, he will share some of the fascinating outcomes from his research and will reflect on completing Australia's first PhD in the field of typography.
Come along and celebrate World Graphic Design Day with one of Australia's leading typographers, before it's too late!
When
6pm Thursday 27 April
Where
Theatrette
Canberra Museum & Gallery
London Circuit
Canberra
Cost
AGDA members: FREE
Non-members: $20
RSVP
By Friday 21 April
T 02 6288 8675
E act  agda.com.au
About Dr Anthony Cahalan
Dr Anthony Cahalan has broad-ranging national and international experience in graphic design, marketing, public relations and design education. He is currently Deputy Head of the Division of Health, Design and Science and Associate Professor of Graphic Design at the University of Canberra. He is the country delegate for Australia of the Association Typographique Internationale (ATypI), and has been a state president and national councillor of the Australian Graphic Design AssociationAGDA. Anthony studied visual communication at Sydney College of the Arts, has a Master of Design from the University of Technology Sydney and completed his PhD in typography at Curtin University of Technology in Perth. In July 2006 he will become the new Dean (and Professor) of the Faculty of Design at the Ontario College of Art and Design in Toronto, Canada.
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