Celebrating Fleet St and the newspaper: events in Autumn 2004

The Friends of St Bride Printing Library warmly invite you to the following events in celebration of Fleet Street and a long association with the worlds of newspaper printing and design.

Exhibition: The Changing Newspaper

7 September–7 October

Simon Esterson, ‘The Changing Newspaper’

Tuesday 14 September. 5.30pm: Private view; 7pm: Lecture

Following on from ‘The Changing Newspaper’ exhibition he has curated for the Library, Simon will guide us through such themes as, Why newspapers look the way they do... and what is a ‘Berliner’ anyway?

Simon Esterson is a London-based magazine, newspaper and book designer who has worked with Blueprint, The Guardian and Domus.

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John D Berry, ‘Contemporary newspaper design: Shaping the news in the digital age: typography & image on modern newsprint’

Tuesday 28 September. 5.30pm: Book launch. 7pm: Lecture

This lecture is in celebration of John’s new book of the same name. We will be celebrating the launch of this book over a glass of wine, with opportunities to buy and have copies signed from 5.30pm.

John D Berry is a designer and writer based in the USA. Formerly the editor of ITC’s much loved U&lc; magazine, John has recently written the introduction to the substantial new book on Matrix magazine, as well as having edited Language Culture Type: international type design in the age of Unicode.

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