“ECAL A Typographic Atlas” and “Since Type@Cooper” openings and lecture

Join us for the openings of two exhibitions and a Herb Lubalin Lecture as we kick off Typographics festival.
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Join us for the openings of two exhibitions and a Herb Lubalin Lecture as we kick off Typographics festival. Details below.

“ECAL A Typographic Atlas” exhibition
Curated by Bachelor Graphic Design and Master Type Design programmes, ECAL A Typographic Atlas presents a wide selection of 300 typefaces created by ECAL students from around the world.

“Since Type@Coooper ”exhibition
The exhibition brings together examples of work produced by the graduates of Type@Cooper programs. Launched in 2010 the certificate programs have become the leader in typeface design education in United States.

“ECAL A Typographic Atlas conference”
The practice of designing typefaces is highly specialized. It is easy, then, to go into the rabbit hole of drawing and curve fine-tuning, forgetting the fact that letterforms are primarily material for other means of communication. That is: graphic design. The Bachelor in Graphic Design and Master in Type Design of ECAL / University of Art and Design Lausanne, Switzerland, takes this questions seriously, but with fun. Celebrating 10 years of the MA in 2026, they developed a traveling exhibition and a book, reflecting about letterforms and how to show them through the principle of an Atlas. Next to the opening of the exhibition in its New York stop — after Torino, Leipzig and Paris, and before Montréal and Pasadena — this talk will introduce the audience to the mixed practices of graphic and type design, going through Diploma projects of three graduates, and the evolution of their practice, bridging the skills of font production with the broader perspectives of art directors and graphic designers. How we make fonts. How we show fonts. And how we use them.

ECAL graduates, Sean Ervan Kuhnke, Rebekka Hausmann, and Nayo Kim will present a short talk about their experience after graduating from typeface design programs.

Agenda

🕑: 05:00 PM
Exhibitions open at 5pm
🕑: 06:30 PM - 08:00 PM
Talk begins at 6:30pm
🕑: 08:00 PM - 09:30 PM
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