D’KODE 2026: Typography Summit Highlights Future of Design Education and AI-Driven Creativity

The School of design at MIT Institute of design has launched D'KODE 2026 with a two-day Typography Summit, March 28 - 29 - bringing together leading voices from India and abroad to explore the evolving role of typography in design, communication, and digital interfaces.

Leading the discussions are Gerri Canonico, a US-based typographer, Sarang Kulkarni who is from India and noopur Datye, a digital font specialist. The main topics of conversation are variable fonts, AI- type design and inclusive typography - reshaping visual messaging with the help of technology.

Besides that, workshops on glyphs and FontForge enable the participants to create fonts. Moreover, the course covers branding and UI/UX scenarios from the real world. As a matter of fact, design sprints are the live sessions where people get the chance to use the new typefaces in practice. On the other hand, the exhibitions display experimental works along with other side features.

By the way, typography has been impacted heavily by the national Education Policy 2020. Design colleges are giving great importance to interdisciplinary training and technological skills. What used to be a somewhat insignificant skill is now a major factor in global digital markets.

Along with D'KODE 2026, we see how AI and cross-cultural interaction are making new skills necessary. Typography is the medium through which we read, feel and tell stories. Apart from appearance, it is about providing access, giving a great experience, and communicating effectively, which are the needs of today's creative world.