RASTER 27

The international congress for typography & systems designInternationaler Kongress für Typografie und Systemgestaltung

11–13 June 2027
Messe Basel, Halle 3
Doors 08:00

Show your grid.

27th edition — annual since 2001.

RASTER

The congress

A grid is a promise. For three days in June, Basel keeps it.

RASTER is the annual working congress for people who design systems — typefaces, layouts, token libraries, timetables — and who hold that structure is not the opposite of feeling. No panels about the future of design. Sixteen sessions about the practice of it. One rule, printed on every badge: show your grid.

R Raster
Grids, layout, the page. What holds.
L Letter
Type design and lettering. What speaks.
S System
Design systems and code. What scales.

01–16 · Chronological

Programme

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Day 1 — Thursday 11 June

0109:00ThuR Astrid Kaufmann Zürich Show your grid Keynote
0210:30ThuL Yumi Sato Tokyo The em is a room Talk
0313:00ThuS Marta Kowalczyk Warsaw Tokens before pixels Talk
0414:30ThuR Bruno Ferreira São Paulo Concrete poetry, concrete grids Talk
0516:00ThuL Dieter Brandt Basel Akzidenz to interface Talk
0617:30ThuR Kaufmann · Ferreira · Brandt Order and its discontents Panel

Day 2 — Friday 12 June

0709:00FriS Nadia El-Amin Cairo Both directions at once Talk
0810:30FriL Jonas Lindqvist Malmö Variable fonts are instruments Talk
0913:00FriS Priya Raghavan Bengaluru One system, eleven scripts Talk
1014:30FriR Lucia Moretti Milano Break the grid you built Keynote
1116:00FriS Tomi Okafor Lagos After the component Talk
1217:30FriL Henrik Vos Amsterdam One poster, ninety minutes Workshop

Day 3 — Saturday 13 June

1309:00SatR Claire Dubois Lyon Wayfinding at 90 km/h Talk
1410:30SatS Inês Barros Lisboa The timetable is the interface Talk
1513:00SatL Elif Demir Istanbul Kufic, geometry, pixels Talk
1616:00SatR Hans Rudolf Meier Basel The millimetre is political Keynote

All sessions in English. Workshop 12 capped at 24 seats — first come at the door.

A–Z · Numbers refer to sessions

Speakers

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Venue

Messe Basel, Halle 3
Messeplatz 10
4058 Basel, Switzerland

Doors 08:00. Badges at the Messeplatz gate. Cloakroom in Halle 3, no charge. The congress is held in English; questions may be asked in German or French.

Basel SBBTram 2, direction Eglisee
Messeplatz12 min, 7 stops
Halle 3200 m on foot