No. 07 · A conference on design and type
Lisbon · 13 & 14 May 2027
Overprint

Overprint 06, Main hall
Two-day pass
Admit one
Two days on type, signs, books and screens.
Dates
13 & 14 May 2027
Venue
Armazém 16, Lisbon
Programme
16 sessions, 2 stages
Early bird until 31 January
From €190
8
Speakers
2
Stages
600
Seats, then we stop
Speakers
Eight people who draw for a living.

10:00
Margit Halvorsen
Type designer, Halvorsen Type
Drawing one typeface for a whole city

11:00
Daniel Mensah
Head of wayfinding, City Transport
Signs nobody notices, on purpose

14:00
Léa Moreau
Interface designer
Colour on screens that never sleep

15:30
Jonas Ek
Creative director, Ek & Holm
Rebranding a 140-year-old bakery

10:00
Inês Carvalho
Poster designer and teacher
Forty years of posters on one wall

11:00
Kenji Arai
Book designer
The grid is a promise

14:00
Ruth Adler
Accessibility researcher
Design for the slowest reader in the room

15:30
Theo Lam
Motion designer
Letters that move, and when they should stay still
Programme
Two days, two stages, one long lunch.
All times in Lisbon time (WEST)
Thursday 13 May
Day 1
Doors, badges and coffee
Pick up your lanyard at the river entrance. Pastéis de nata on the house until they run out.
Everyone
Welcome to Overprint 2027
The hosts open the seventh edition, with a few rules and one good story.
Main hall
Ana Ribeiro and Tom Fischer
Drawing one typeface for a whole city
Four years, two hundred bus drivers and every street sign in Oslo.
Main hall
Margit Halvorsen
Signs nobody notices, on purpose
How a team of eleven tests signs with people who are late and lost.
Main hall
Daniel Mensah
Lunch on the riverside terrace
Long tables outside, or inside if Lisbon decides to rain.
Everyone
Colour on screens that never sleep
A colour system for a night shift ward, tested at three in the morning.
Main hall
Léa Moreau
Workshop: lettering with a broad nib
Ninety minutes, forty seats, all materials included. Sign up at the desk.
Studio
Ana Ribeiro
Rebranding a 140-year-old bakery
Two years, three family meetings and one very old wooden stamp.
Main hall
Jonas Ek
Print fair and drinks
Thirty independent printers and publishers. Bring cash and an empty bag.
Everyone
Friday 14 May
Day 2
Coffee and portfolio corner
Bring your work. Senior designers give fifteen-minute reviews until ten.
Everyone
Forty years of posters on one wall
One long wall, hung in order, and what never changed.
Main hall
Inês Carvalho
The grid is a promise
A hands-on session with printed proofs from three art books.
Studio
Kenji Arai
Lunch on the riverside terrace
Same tables, new menu.
Everyone
Design for the slowest reader in the room
Five years of reading tests, a handful of simple rules.
Main hall
Ruth Adler
Letters that move, and when they should stay still
Film titles, live events and a lift that talked too much.
Main hall
Theo Lam
Closing panel: what will we still draw in 2037?
Questions from the room, then a long goodbye on the terrace.
Main hall
All speakers
Venue
Armazém 16, a cork warehouse on the river.
Two halls under one steel roof in Marvila, on the east side of Lisbon. The Main hall seats six hundred, the Studio forty, and the terrace takes everyone at lunch.



Passes
Both days, lunch and the print fair. One price.
Student
€190
+ Both days, both stages
+ Lunch and coffee
+ A valid student card at the door
No.
0412
Standard
€390
+ Both days, both stages
+ Lunch, coffee and the print fair
+ Early bird price until 31 January
No.
0001
Team of five
€1,650
+ Five named passes
+ A reserved table at lunch
+ One invoice for the studio
No.
0250
Prices include VAT. Passes can be moved to a colleague until 1 May. Refunds until 1 April.
Call for talks · open until 15 February
Ten minutes on stage. Your idea.
Friday afternoon has six lightning talks, chosen from proposals by the speakers. Students and first-time speakers are very welcome. We reply to everyone by 1 March.
Length
Ten minutes, no questions, one screen.
Fee
A free pass, travel within Europe and two nights in Lisbon.
Help
A rehearsal call with one of the hosts two weeks before.
With thanks to
Halftone Press
Gráfica Lumen
PAPER MILL CO.
studio norte
Type Assembly
RIVERSIDE