Periodical
HYPHEN
Hyphen is the sole academic magazine devoted to typography in Greece. It appears on a yearly basis. It welcomes papers on typography and graphic communication and contributions at the meeting places between typography and other disciplines. Hyphen is published by Typophilia with the support of Altervision.
Contact details: hyphen a typographic forum 6 deliou street, 546 21 thessaloniki, greece, e-mail: avision@netor.gr | go to Altervision...
Online references
On June 7-10, 1995, the Greek Font Society organised an international symposium on typography themed "Greek letters: From tablets to pixels". The symposium addressed issues concerning the overall history of the greek script, as well as contemporary design problems in the electronic age. Significant number of speakers had been attracted, each a specialist in their respective field, among which, Hermann Zapf, Kyle MacCarter, Stephen Tracy, Jean Irigoin, Agamemnon Tselikas, Matthew Carter, John Bowman, Silvio Levy, George Matthiopoulos, Louis Rosenblum.
Greek Font Society | 'Greek Letters: From tablets to pixels'
Klimis Mastoridis, a Fellow of the Institute of Printing, UK, has participated in international conferences in Greece and abroad and was responsible for the academic part of the first ever international conference about typography held in Thessaloniki, Greece, in October 1992. He is chairman of AlterVision, typography & visual communication ltd and director of the University of Macedonia Press. Klimis is the author of the books Reproduction and printing issues (Thessaloniki, 1987, 1993, 1996), and Casting the Greek newspaper (Thessaloniki, 1999). He also edits Hyphen, a typographic forum.
Read some of his online articles at the University of Macedonia Press website | go to UOM...
Yannis Haralambous holds a Ph.D. of Pure Mathematics from the University of Lille (France). He has been conducting research in the domain of digital typography since 1988 and specialises in the typography of oriental languages. He is co founder of Atelier Fluxus Virus. Keeping Greek Typography alive is from the 1st International Conference on Typography and Visual Communication held in Thessaloniki in June 2002.
Download the article | Keeping Greek Typography Alive...
These are some thoughts regarding the choice of typefaces by greek graphic designers nowdays. I sincerely hope that a conversation may begin in the near future amidst the greek graphic design community regarding the greek script, its history and its future.
Books
Klimis Mastoridis
Casting the Greek newspaper
Thessaloniki : Hellenic Literary and Historical Archive, 1999
Based on a thesis completed in 1997 for the Department of Typography & Graphic Communication at the University of Reading, this is a study of the design and production of the Greek newspaper. Typographic arrangement, production processes and the people involved, materials used and the methods employed are the areas covered in this thesis.
Edited by Konstantinos Sp. Staikos and Triantaphyllos E. Sklavenitis
The Publishing Centres of the Greeks : From the Renaissance to the Neohellenic Enlightenment
Athens : National Bookcentre of Greece, 2001
The catalogue (initially accompanying an exhibition) is the history of the publishing centres of the Greeks from the renaissance to the neohellenic enlightenment. The exhibition, the product of arduous research and of profound scholarship, is closely associated with the conviction of the National Book Centre that the dissemination of books, the supporting of research, and the acquisition of knowledge lead not only to social self-awareness, but also to individual freedom. In the hands of the few, the book can become a tool of repression, but in the hands of many it is an instrument of resistance and emancipation.
1st International Conference on Typography and Visual Communication
Thessaloniki: University of Macedonia Press, 2004
The proceedings of the conference held in Thessaloniki (June 2002) have now been published by the University of Macedonia press covering a wide range of topics on history, theory and education.
Greek letters : from tablets to pixels
New Castle, D.E. : Oak Knoll, 1996
Proceedings of an international symposium held at the Institut Francais d'Athenes in 1995. Including renown speakers such as Hermann Zapf, David Berlow, Matthew Carter, John Bowman, John Lane, George Matthiopoulos and others.
Victor Scholderer
Greek Printing Types 1465/1927
Mastoridis publications, Typophilia, 1995
The well known book by Victor Scholderer with a note on Victor Scholderer by Martin Davis as well as a note on Scholderer's "New Hellenic Type" by John H. Bowman.
Martin Davies
Aldus Manutius : printer and publisher of Renaissance Venice
London : The British Library, 1995
From the spring of 1495 the Aldine Press undertook a vast and novel programme of making the written remains of Greek Antiquity widely and systematically available to the scholarly public of Renaissance Europe. Aldus also printed many Latin and Italian texts in cheaper formats in the famous Aldine italic.
John H. Bowman
Greek printing types in Britain, from the late eighteenth to the early twentieth century
Thessaloniki : Typophilia, 1998
Based on the author's thesis completed in 1988 for the Department of Typography and Graphic communication at the University of Reading, England.
Edited by John D.Berry
Language Culture Type: International Type Design in the Age of Unicode
New York : Graphis, 2002
With articles by Robert Bringhurst, John Hudson, Maxim Zhukov, Akira Kobayashi, Fiona Ross, Gerry Leonidas, Misha Beletsky, Saki Mafundikwa, Thomas Milo, Vladimir Yefimov and Adam Twardoch. Includes the very interesting article A primer on Greek type design by Gerry Leonidas.
Edited by D. Holton, T. Ledari, U. Moennig and P. Vejleskov
Copyists, collectors, redactors and editors. Manuscripts and editions of Late Byzantine and Modern Greek Literature.
Herakleion : Crete University Press, 2005
From the conference held at the Danish Institute in Athens entitled "Miscellaneous Manuscripts of Late Byzantine and Early Modern Greek Literary Texts", this book hosts experts in the fields of codicology, palaeography, textual criticism and literary studies. It is divided in four sections: Copyists and Redactors, Codices, Collections and Byzantium and the Latin West: Comparative Approaches respectively.
"Κωδικογράφοι, συλλέκτες, διασκευαστές και εκδότες"
Philippos Eliou
Stories of the Greek book
Herakleion : Crete University Press, 2005
Stories of the Greek book is the work of Phillippos Eliou, an eminent historian of contemporary Greece. Researching bibliography and the history of the book was a principal area of interest of Eliou. This book traces printers and publishers, writers and translators, Greek printing houses, from secular and religious sheets to the neoteric scientific book. [in greek]
ΗΛΙΟΥ ΦΙΛΙΠΠΟΣ : "Ιστορίες του ελληνικού βιβλίου"
Natasha Raissaki