From: Peter Constable (petercon@microsoft.com)
Date: Fri Sep 24 2004 - 12:05:23 CDT
[I'll try this again -- plain text this time.]
Here's the abstract for one of the presentations at ATypI next week.
Will this be the every-character-has-a-story repository we've always
wished for?
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Decode Unicode!
A typographic database
Johannes Bergerhausen
Friday 1 October | 14:15 - 15:00
Location: A-2 (Archa Hall 2)
Presentation | Theme: Typographic Babylon | Duration: 45 minutes
After the DNA, the ASCII-Code is the most successful code on this
planet. The Unicode will even be better. Now is the right time to gather
and explain the meaning, history and correct typographic use of each
Unicode-Caracter. Who invented the full stop? When did the Infinity-Sign
come into being? What's an Ogonek? In an 18-month project in the
department of Design at the University of Applied Sciences in Mainz,
Germany, we are collecting images, samples and texts about each and
every sign in the Code. In the near future, the project will be opened
for anyone to submit their own material. In his lecture,
Prof. Bergerhausen will give an introduction to code-history from ASCII
to Unicode and will present the project that is supported by the Germany
Federal Ministry of Education and Research.
Speaker details
Johannes Bergerhausen =
<http://www.atypi.org/08_Prague/30_program/40_speakers/view_person_html?
p=
ersonid=3D1130> Professor Fachhochschule Mainz | Germany
Prof. Johannes Bergerhausen, born 1965 in Bonn, Germany, studied Visual
Communication at the University of Applied Sciences in Dusseldorf. From
1993 to 2000, he lived and worked in Paris. First he collaborated with
the Founders of Grapus, G=E9rard Paris-Clavel and Pierre Bernard, then
he founded his own office. In 1998 he was awarded a grant from the
French Centre National des Arts Plastiques for a typographic research
project on the ASCII-Code. Lectures in Amiens, Paris, Rotterdam, Warsaw,
Weimar. He returned to Germany in 2000, since 2002 he is Professor of
Typography at the University of Applied Sciences in Mainz. In 2003,
together with Paris-Clavel, he published the font LeBuro at ACME Fonts,
London.
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