Reshaping Armenian Letterforms
This talk has visited three major moments in time and space, to discuss the modernisation of the Armenian typographic script and its impact on the development of subsequent Armenian typefaces.
To discuss the modernisation of the Armenian typographic script and its impact on the development of subsequent Armenian typefaces, Dr Elena Papassissa's talk has visited three major moments in time and space.
The first one took place in Paris in the 1850s when the Armenian printer and publisher Čanik Aramean (1820–1879) introduced Latinised Armenian types in La Colombe du Massis. The second instance happened in Beirut in 1968 with artist Onnik Awetisean (1898–1974) publishing his New lowercase letters for printing in Armenian. Our last move took us to twenty-first-century Yerevan and examined recent typographic trends.
This event was held in collaboration with the St Bride Foundation.
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