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Lectures & Workshops Home About Publications Fonts Clients Links	University of Thessalia Department of Architecture ‘First Things First’ Type and Typographic Design Introductory Lecture On 15 April, Michail had been invited to the University of Thessalia, Department of Architecture, to give a three-hour introductory lecture on type and typographic design to third year students. GFS – GDA Greek Typography One-day Conference Greek Font Society, under the auspices of the Greek Graphic Design Association, is organising a one-day conference on Greek typography on December 15th. Speakers will be including prominent practitioners in the field of typography, type design and research; George Matthiopoulos, Dimitris Arvanitis, Panayotis Haratzopoulos, Eirini Vlachou, Michail Semoglou, Alexis Zavras, Giannis Karlopoulos. Topics to be addressed include: the history of Greek typography, the importance of typeface selection in a typographic composition, designing a Greek typeface based on a brief, digital typeface encoding, typographic design, typographic aesthetics in magazine and newspaper design. All talks will be followed by a discussion. Text was taken from N Raissakis’ web-site (http://www.raissaki.gr/pages/greektypeforum.html) ATEI Large Scale Expressive Calligraphy One-day Workshop On 21st of May, Michail will run a one-day calligraphy workshop at the Technological and Educational Institute of Athens (ATEI), School of Graphic Arts. Type Initiative (Michail Semoglou & Keith Tam) at the 3rd ICTVC On 18th and 19th of June, during the 3rd International Conference on Typography and Visual Communication, Michail and Keith will run together a two-day calligraphy workshop on Italic hand. They will also talk about typeface design, ‘Arrival’ and Type Initiative’s future projects.     Furthermore, Keith will present his paper ‘Teaching typography: perspective & approaches’. UoM Press Calligraphy Two-day Workshop On 25th and 26th of November, Michail will run a two-day calligraphy workshop on Italic hand at the University of Macedonia, Thessaloniki. ATEI Calligraphy Introductory Lecture On 12 December, Michail had been invited to the Technological and Educational Institute of Athens (ATEI), School of Graphic Arts, to give a three-hour lecture on calligraphy to first year students. This included demonstration of materials used by a calligrapher (pens, ink etc.), hand and paper positioning, samples of the Latin and Greek script in various hands and on the spot demonstration of calligraphic writing. Text was taken from N Raissakis’ web-site (http://www.raissaki.gr/pages/greektypeforum.html)