17 Kallipoleos street
1055 Nicosia
Cyprus
- Arts
- Heritage
- International/Cultural relations
- Media
- Research
- Youth and education
The Institute has been established with the following aims:
To scientifically research, study, and document historical, theoretical and practical issues related to typography and visual communication. Develop research programmes and participate in programmes about the theory, history, education and practice of typography and visual communication in collaboration with Cypriots and foreign scholars and researchers. Establish and develop scientific bonds with similar scientific institutes in Cyprus and abroad. Study printed artefacts produced through analogue and digital technologies and discuss their importance as evidence of everyday activities and thus enhance knowledge of the community that created and used them. Offer high quality services to the interested parts of the local and international communities; lectures, seminars, conferences, field trips for educators as well as professionals, and specialised professional training and evaluation of educational programmes in the field of typography and visual communication. Promote the importance of conventional and electronic artefacts as cultural commodities. Establish awards and scholarships. Establish a library-archive, conventional and digital, about typography and visual communication. Organise and promote scientific events, lectures, and conferences at local, national, and international scale. Organise exhibitions, filmings, social events and presentations.
1) Inernational Conference on Typography & Visual Communication
ICTVC is established worldwide as a major event that explores the world of typography and visual communication. Since its inception, people from diverse fields and different disciplines with a passion for visual language research, education, and practice, contribute to the conference.
ICTVC attracts speakers and delegates on an international scale, and from a wide range of disciplines related to typography and design. The high quality of presentations is a hallmark of the conference.http://ictvc.org/
2) Hyphen, a typographic forum, was first published in 1998. It welcomes papers on typography and graphic communication and contributions at the meeting places between typography and other disciplines. Hyphen is currently published by the Institute for the Study of Typography and Visual Communication.http://istvc.org/hyphien-a-typographic-forum.html
3) Exhibitions (Against Lethe, Design Museum Thessaloniki, ICTVC exhibitions), presentations (academic and professional talks) and workshops (light letterpress, typedesign etc)
The ISTVC can contribute by providing a specialised expertise and cultural knowledge to the network. Typography and visual culture constitute a mirror image of societies and their study provides an important tool in order to better understand people from different countries and civilisations.
Through the ALF network the ISTVC will have an opportunity to cooperate with institutes and organisations in Europe and the Mediterranean region, develop and implement projects that are relevant to its aims and objectives.