Living in Australia is awesome but one of the toughest moments during the year is when the “type conference season” starts. If you — like me — suffer of major FOMO and don’t even want to open Twitter for weeks, maybe now is a good time to schedule a trip overseas and make it coincide with your favourite Type Conference! Some of them are listed below:
ISType Mono – Istanbul, TR
February 22, 2018
Typo Day – Mumbai, IN
March 1–3, 2018
Robothon – The Hague, NL
March 8–9, 2018
Type Drives Culture – New York City, US
March 23, 2018
Tipos Latinos
April 2018
TYPO Labs – Berlin, DE
April 12–14, 2018
Fontstand Typography Conference – Zagreb, HR
April 21, 2018
Typotage – Leipzig, DE
April 27–29, 2018
The Design Conference – Brisbane, AU
May 09–11, 2018
TYPO Berlin – Berlin, DE
May 17–19, 2018
Dia Tipo – Goiânia, BR
May 19, 2018
Kerning Conference – Faenza, IT
June 6–8, 2018
Typographics – New York City, US
June 11–21, 2018
Script, Print and Letterforms in Global Contexts – Birmingham, UK
June 28–29, 2018
Ampersand, The Web Typography Conference – Brighton, UK
June 29, 2018
Granshan Conference – US
July 23, 2018 – Los Angeles
July 24–29, 2018 – San Jose and San Francisco
TypeCon – Portland (Oregon), US
August 1–5, 2018
Typism – Gold Coast, AU
August 4, 2018
Rencontres Internationales de Lure, – Lurs, FR
August 19–24, 2018
Typetersburg – St. Petersburg, RU
August 4–5, 2018
ATypI – Antwerp, BE
September 11–15, 2018
Women in Print: Production, Distribution and Consumption – Winterbourne House & Garden, Birmingham, UK
September 13–14, 2018
BITS – Bangkok, TH
October, 2018 (TBA)
Tipografía México / Typography Mexico – Monterrey, MX
October 17–19, 2018
Wayzgoose Hamilton Wood Type & Printing Museum – Two Rivers, US
November 2–4, 2018
Dynamic Font Day – Munich, DE
November 17, 2018
Encontro de Tipografia Conference – Tomar, PT
November 16–17, 2018
Tipografilia – Ciudad de México, MX
(TBA)
Letrástica – Guadalajara, MX
(TBA)
This list has been put together thanks to Indra Kupferschmid and the Alphabettes calendar. Please, get in touch if you know of any other type conference and dates coming up this year.
Happy type touring!