Approaches to Bilingual Typography in Design Practice and Pedagogy

This session invites design practitioners and educators to address strategies and approaches to working with bilingual typography that mixes Latin typography. Working with bilingual typography presents opportunities to create layered meaning, innovate visual forms, and reach new audiences. The design process requires the designer to decide on how two languages can work together to balance or disrupt content, semantics, and aesthetics.

What is the value of working with bilingual typography? In what ways can working with bilingual typography question and reveal canonical binaries within typography and language? How can working with bilingual typography challenge hierarchy, power, and identity?