Boom Promphan Suksumek
Boom Promphan Suksumek is a type designer at Cadson Demak, a type foundry based in Bangkok, Thailand. She also currently teaches courses at local universities on typography and the fundamentals of type design. Suksumek studied type design while doing a master’s in communication design at the Basel School of Design in Switzerland; she did her master’s thesis on variable fonts (emotionaltype.org). Suksumek is an enthusiastic student of Thai script and its history.
ATypI Tokyo | Saturday, 7 September, 2019 | 15:10
– 15:30
| Miraikan Hall
The Evolution of Thai Loopless Script
Talk | Presented in EnglishThai script is divided into the looped and the loopless. Loopless Thai is generally considered to be the “modern” form of Thai script. However, loopless Thai has its own history. This presentation examines the evolution of the Thai loopless form...