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Beatrice Warde Memorial Lecture
Typography: from brain to media
Beatrice Warde Memorial Lecture
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Thursday 15 May 2008, 6.30pm in the Bridewell Hall
Entry to the lecture is free and all are welcome
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Designers think for a living, but nobody is interested in our thoughts.
All they want is the physical manifestations of our thought process.
Sketches, dummies, layouts, mark-ups, pilots, presentations, print-outs,
soft proofs, touch-and-feel, wireframes – whatever it takes to show what
the ‘real’ piece may look like.
As a typographer in the 60s and 70s, we had to prepare our ideas for
other people: typesetters, printers, programmers, colleagues, client.
Exact instructions, pasted-up elements or ‘original art’ were our final
product.
G-Type releases Houschka Rounded
Fontworks Press Release - For immediate release
8th May 2008
Houschka Rounded:
the brand new OpenType release from G-Type
The new rounded version of the classic Houschka font family by Nick Cooke • 4 fonts in 1: standard set & 3 additional stylistic sets, modern, art deco & unicase • discretionary ligatures, contextual alternates, small caps & 4 sets of figures • extensive language coverage including Central European, Turkish and Cyrillic
Houschka Rounded, Stylistic Set 1 with Contextual Alternates
Houschka Rounded, Stylistic Set 2 with Contextual Alternates
New and Improved Fonts! Font Diner Update!
New AND Improved? How can that be you say?
First, what’s New? . . .
A few years ago we discovered that there was such an amazing variety of lettering artists who didn’t know how to make fonts that we decided to start Sideshow, an offshoot boutique type foundry dedicated to releasing new exclusive display typefaces and collaborative type designs with talented lettering artists the world over.
Read moreP22 Sneaky font introduction
P22 Sneaky is the newest font by award winning type designer Michael Clark. Sneaky is a connecting-script and sibling of his popular “Pooper Black” type, which shares a similar flow and casual elegance. It features shared details and relative size so that with careful design, the two can be mixed and matched. Sneaky Pro features over 500 glyphs with alternates and a Central European character set.
The font is available in regular TT/PS/OT formats for only
$19.95 or in Pro OpenType format for $29.95 (that’s less than 6 cents per glyph!).
http://www.p22.com/ihof/sneakypro.html
P22 type foundry
http://www.p22.com
Paul Rennie to Speak on Modern British Posters at Central St Martins
Modern British Posters
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Paul Rennie will be giving a talk on this theme at Central St Martins
College of Art and Design on Tuesday 6 May, 6.30pm.
There will be a chance to view the exhibition of the same name from 6pm
in the Lethaby Gallery. Tickets, including drinks, cost £5 (£3
concessions) and numbers are limited so please RSVP to the St Bride
Foundation if you would like to attend:
info [at] stbridefoundation [dot] org / 020 7353 3331
Money from ticket sales goes directly to St Bride Library.
The exhibition is open until 17 May and opening hours are Monday-Friday
10.00am - 6.00pm and Saturday 10.00am to 4.00pm.
More information:
http://www.csm.arts.ac.uk/43010.htm
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New release: Flama mega family / 2008.04.22
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Green greetings from springlike New York City.
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New release: Flama mega family by Mario Feliciano
One of the maiden releases when Village launched in 2005, and still one of our most popular offerings, the Flama family has been expanded and improved. Mario Feliciano, the great Portuguese designer, has added three additional widths and some extra weights to this eminently useful sans.
The “standard” Flama family now comprises 10 weights from Thin through Black in both roman and italic with all accents needed for setting western and eastern European languages. Also new for 2008 are Semicondensed, Condensed and Ultracondensed widths of Flama.
The type family will soon be seen everywhere (in Europe, at least) for a major car company.
Read moreTypeTogether to have an exhibition in Argentina
Veronika Burian, partner at TypeTogether: “We are proud to announce that TypeTogether (www.type-together.com) is opening its exhibition in Rosario, Argentina, on May 21st, 2008. The exhibition presents some of the best known typefaces that TypeTogether has released and a few font families that are still under development. It will also focus on the design process for text typefaces, from conception to reader. The exhibition features typefaces designed by: Veronika Burian, José Scaglione, Eduardo Berliner, Bart Blubaugh, David Brezina, Pilar Cano and Nicolien van der Keur.
St Bride Library Talk: Aileen Reed to speak on Emery Walker
The Universal Samaritan?
Emery Walker and his house in Hammersmith
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An illustrated talk at St Bride Library, 30 April 2008 at 7pm
Admission £5/£3 concessions
Emery Walker (1851—1933), the co-founder of the Doves Press, is well
known in printing circles as a key figure in the private press movement,
and as the commercially successful pioneer of cutting-edge techniques of
photo-reproduction. He was an the intimate friend of William Morris,
Philip Webb and Bernard Shaw, and a significant figure in the wider Arts
and Crafts and socialist movements. These aspects of his life are still
evident at 7 Hammersmith Terrace, his home for the last 30 years of his
life. The talk offers an introduction to Walker’s life and a look at his
Seventh Annual St Bride conference: Update
Seeking Inspiration: creative thinking around the design process
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Seventh annual St Bride Library conference
15-16 May 2008
At St Bride Library, Bride Lane, Fleet St, London EC4Y 8EE
The full price for tickets is £100 rather than £150; Friends can get
full-price tickets for £90.
The full list of speakers is: Paul Antonio, Joel Armstrong, Antonije
Baturan, Sara De Bondt, Susanna Edwards, Katherine Gillieson, William
Hall, George Hardie, Rian Hughes, Robin Kinross, Emily Luce, Karel
Martens, Tyler Moorehead, Lizzie Ridout, Erik Spiekermann, Jeremy
Tankard, Jake Tilson.
For more information, and to book online:
http://seekinginspiration2008.stbride.org/
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