Face/Interface: Global Type Design and Human-Computer Interaction

40 years ago, Turing Award winning computer scientist Donald Knuth teamed up with MacArthur Fellow type designer Chuck Bigelow to convene “The Computer and the Hand in Type Design,” an ATypI-sponsored conference that formed part of one the world’s earliest digital typography graduate programs.

In recognition of this momentous anniversary in both Stanford and design history, and building upon the success of the 2017 Face/Interface gathering, we are delighted to announce a second international conference bringing together scholars, designers, engineers, and technologists to explore global type design, book design, interface design, and human-computer interaction.

Organized by SILICON in partnership with Atelier national de recherche typographique/ENSAD Nancy

Part of Stanford Global Studies’ Global Research Workshop Program

With generous support of the Stanford Office of the President • Stanford School of Humanities and Sciences • Stanford Libraries • Stanford Humanities Center • History • Division of Literatures, Cultures and Languages • English • Computer Science • Silicon Valley Archives • CESTA CIDR • DHAsia • Stanford Global Studies • Center for East Asian Studies • Walter H. Shorenstein Asia-Pacific Research Center • East Asian Languages and Cultures • History and Philosophy of Science • Taube Center for Jewish Studies • Abbasi Program in Islamic Studies

Learn more about SILICON: the Stanford Initiative on Language Inclusion and Conservation in Old and New Media

Speakers and Talk Titles (subject to change)*

*Note: This is NOT a schedule of conference proceedings. A conference schedule will be posted later this Fall.

• Alexandre Bassi and Gabrielle Vail, Designing a Mayan Hieroglyphs Typeface
• Andrew Amstutz, Typing Urdu: Debates over Type Design and Muslim Politics in Modern South Asia
• Andrew Glass, Universality: Theoretical and Practical Underpinnings to the Pursuit of Unicode
• Ariq Syauqi, Challenges and Opportunities of Adapting Minority Scripts into Digital Platform
• Arshia Sobhan Sarbandi, Re-Imagining the Digitization of Calligraphic Perso-Arabic Script with Generative AI: Unleashing Calligraphic Nuances and New Modes of Creative Expression in Nastaliq
• Ben Yang and Manish Goregaokar, Encode To Joy: How Ink, Stone, and Clay become Digital Information in the 21st Century
• Borna Izadpanah, Different Strokes for Different Folks: A Case for Designing Language-Specific Typefaces
• Chuck Bigelow, Prediction Is Difficult, Especially About The Future
• Ferdinand Ulrich, New Environments of Discourse in Early Digital Type Design Technologies
• Fernando de Moraes Caro, Dives Akuru: The Search for a Suitable Typographic Representation of an Extinct Script
• Hrant Papazian, Planting Seeds of Diversity
• Johannes Bergerhausen, Unicode + Missing Scripts = The World's Writing Systems
• Kaveh Ashourinia, Proto-Elamite: A Typographical Revival of an Ancient Script
• Khawar Latif Khan, Matnsāz and Maḵẖzan: Changing Urdu Typing in the Digital World
• Kourosh Beigpour, Farsi Type in Los Angeles
• Liron Lavi Turkenich and Shani Avni, Defect Turned Default: Navigating Technology's Impact on Hebrew Type Design
• Morgane Pierson, Between Typography, Archaeology and Digital Humanities: The PIM Project
• Nadine Chahine, A Return to the Early Kufi
• Neil Patel, A Process Engineering Approach to Internationalization
• Niteesh Yadav, Spatial Typography: The World Beyond...
• Peter Bilak, Giving Voice to People
• Sina Fakour, Reviving the World's First Phonetic Writing System, Linear Elamite (2300-1850 BCE)
• Sorin Pintilie, Critical Perspectives on the Consequences of Design Decisions Embedded in Digital Type Systems
• Thomas Huot-Marchand, The Missing Scripts at ANRT: Type Design Research for Unencoded Scripts
• Yara Khoury, An Arabic Type Research Center in the Making: A Pragmatic Approach
• Zhao Liu and Kushim Jiang, An Introduction to Oracle-Bone Script Design and Encoding: Stories from the Creation of Oracle-Bone Illustrated Books