The Conference on Type Design and Technology

8+9 March 2012

Hey! Join us in The Hague at the Royal Academy of Arts for the 2012 edition of the Robothon Conference on Type Design and Technology. This year we’re proud to announce an international range of speakers, the new UFO 3 format, amazing new tools and ideas. Robothon is a great opportunity to hang out with your colleagues from around Europe, meet the TypeMedia crew, and see the Gerrit Noordzij Prize exhibition and seminar.

Programme

Confirmed speakers

Robothon will conclude with the Gerrit Noordzij Prize 2012 award ceremony and exhibition on Firday afternoon, March 9, 2012.

When we have all the talks lined up we will publish a schedule.

Sponsors

RoboThon 2012 is organised in cooperation with the students of the Type&Media department, Jan Willem Stas and Petr van Blokland, and the generous support from the Royal Academy of Arts in The Hague. and the KABK staff and teachers.

The Robothon organisers want to thank these sponsors for their support:

Sorry, sold out!

As you can see we've sold out already, sorry! We're planning to do a live webcast of the presentations of the two conference days. Details will be published here. The proceedings of the last Robothon 2009 are still available here.

Venue

Royal Academy of Arts (kabk.nl)
Prinsessegracht 4, 2514 AN Den Haag

Robothon 2012 is hosted at the Royal Academy of Arts in The Hague. Close to the Central Station —45 minutes to Schiphol Airport by train— and at the end of the A12. You know the place, you’ve been here before!


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Twitters

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Check who's coming on Lanyrd.com

Accomodation

Here are some suggestions of places to stay. Hotels:

Smaller Bed & Breakfast style places:

Misc

The typeface used on this page is a special web version of Nitti, sponsored by Bold Monday. The ROBOTHON 2012 logo was drawn by Martijn Rijven of Bolt Graphics. The Japanese text in the logo says "Ro Bo Son"

If you need to get in touch with the Robothon organisers, send us a note at robothon12@robofab.com.