Previous events

Alan Fletcher's Colophon

Thursday 9 May 2013

An overview of this influential designer's career and an insight into his largely unknown series of books

#FutureOfType?

Thursday 2 May 2013

Explore our Victorian typefaces and discuss what's in type's future

London: Mapping the Data City

Wednesday 10 April 2013

How the millions of digital traces recorded each day give a better understanding of our great city

Peace, Hellfire & Tits

Tuesday 26 March 2013

Seb Lester charts his life in letters

Type Tuesday: The magazine now arriving at platform 15

Tuesday 12 March 2013

Eye magazine presents the first of four informal gatherings about art direction, design and typography

The golden age of the Spanish book

Tuesday 19 February 2013

Eighth annual Justin Howes memorial lecture given by Albert Corbeto

Ken Garland: a graphic celebration

Tuesday 12 February 2013

An evening in the company of Ken Garland and some of his friends, admirers and colleagues

The Design of Understanding 2013

Friday 25 January 2013

One-day conference curated by Max Gadney

I wish I'd known that ...

Wednesday 16 January 2013

First in a series of lectures and events designed particularly for anyone looking to gain fresh perspectives from contemporary practitioners

Clockwerk Men before Enlightenment

Tuesday 15 January 2013

Timothy C. Ely discusses his work and influences from Arts and Crafts to Steampunk

Ravilious and friends in the age of lithography

Wednesday 5 December 2012

Three leading experts discuss Ravilious in context

Crafty types

Tuesday 13 November 2012

An evening celebrating the craft of the letter

Letterpress: something to say

Friday 9 November 2012

Third in our series of sell-out one-day letterpress conferences

You can't repeat the past

Thursday 18 October 2012

Beatrice Warde Memorial Lecture given by Paul Barnes

Bookerbinding

Thursday 27 September 2012

21 years of binding the winners of the Man Booker Prize

Herb Lubalin

Tuesday 4 September 2012

An evening celebrating the life and work of Herb Lubalin

Publish! New players, new innovations

Thursday 19 July 2012

Innovative projects and discussion from writers, creative technologists and new players in publishing

Out of the box

Thursday 28 June 2012

Archive night, curated by Eye Magazine

An Evening with Kapitza

Wednesday 30 May 2012

Multi-disciplinary design studio Kapitza discuss their working processes and inspirations

Silent poster sale

Wednesday 2 May 2012

Work from Central St Martins students and professionals on sale at the same price

Designer Bookbinders: an Introduction to Contemporary Bookbinding

Tuesday 1 May 2012

Jenni Grey showcases innovative approaches to bookbinding

BERG at St Bride

Wednesday 21 March 2012

Timo Arnall and friends enlighten us about their work with design studio BERG

Proceed and Be Bold!

Tuesday 20 March 2012

Showing of the recent documentary on the self-proclaimed ‘Humble Negro Printer’ Amos Paul Kennedy, Jr.

Making Magazines 2012

Friday 16 March 2012

Celebrating magazines today, from mass-market consumer titles to niche independents, via illustration and the iPad

Life after Counterpunch

Tuesday 21 February 2012

Seventh annual Justin Howes memorial lecture

The Design of Understanding

Friday 27 January 2012

One-day conference curated by Max Gadney

Paul Nash evening

Thursday 1 December 2011

St Bride Library's special winter event

Critical Tensions

Thursday 10 November 2011

Tenth annual St Bride Library conference

The River

Tuesday 8 November 2011

Gaylord Schanilec talks about his metal type and wood block book project

Typography is our Common Language

Tuesday 1 November 2011

The Beatrice Warde Memorial Lecture given by Freda Sack

The Passmore Edwards Centennial Lecture

Monday 10 October 2011

St Bride Foundation celebrates a Victorian benefactor

Print Workshop attends Vintage at Southbank

Friday 29 to Sunday 31 July 2011

Festival outing for the Print Workshop

A Genesis of Sorts

Tuesday 24 May 2011

Typefounding for the re-creation of pages from the 1611 King James Bible

Graphic Design: History in the Making

Friday 6 May 2011

An investigation of the status of graphic design history today

Printing Types in the Dutch Golden Age

Tuesday 22 February 2011

Sixth annual Justin Howes memorial lecture

The Design of Understanding

Friday 28 January 2011

One-day conference examining design's contribution to understanding

Edward Bawden

Thursday 9 December 2010

An evening of talks with mince pies and wine

Letterpress: forward thinking

Friday 19 November 2010

One-day letterpress conference

Researching Excoffon and the Fonderie Olive

Tuesday 26 October 2010

2010 Beatrice Warde Memorial Lecture

Curiosity ... is the key to the fantastic

Tuesday 5 October 2010

An evening with the acclaimed Canadian typographic illustrator Marian Bantjes

Puffin by design

Thursday 3 June 2010

Book launch and talk

DIY Design

Thursday 27 to Friday 28 May 2010

Ninth annual St Bride Library conference

Printing: a Revolutionary History

Tuesday 27 April 2010

Printing Historical Society lecture

Book design in St. Gallen

4 March to Thursday 1 April 2010

Talks and exhibition of past and present work

Zainer's imperfect impressions

Tuesday 23 February 2010

Fifth annual Justin Howes memorial lecture

Design for music ...

Friday 29 January 2010

Conference exploring this complex, passionate, sometimes obsessive relationship

Typeface

Thursday 21 January 2010

UK movie premiere

Designing information before designers

Monday 11 to Friday 29 January 2010

Exhibition of information design from the nineteenth century

Christmas Music in Shakespeare's England

Monday 21 December 2009

Festive programme performed in costume by Passamezzo

Eric Ravilious

Wednesday 2 December 2009

An evening of talks on different aspects of his life and work

Isotype revisited

Wednesday 18 November 2009

Three short talks about lesser-known aspects of this groundbreaking graphical approach to education

Type matters?

Wednesday 11 November 2009

Evening discussion about current and future typographic issues hosted by four LCC alumni

Late letterpress: the work of Desmond Jeffery

Tuesday 27 October to Friday 13 November 2009

Jeffery set up his printing business in 1950. He soon had a broad client base from galleries to type founders. This exhibition examining his work opens with an evening of short talks.

Mad Kings and Englishmen

Tuesday 27 October to Friday 20 November 2009

These lunchtime events with a Dickensian flavour partner the St Bride Foundation Lunchbox Theatre production Mad Kings and Englishmen

An Excellent Medley

Tuesday 22 to Wednesday 23 September 2009

A candlelit concert of Elizabethan and Jacobean music and song presented by Passamezzo

Analog Source: Letterpress in an American Design Education

Tuesday 30 June 2009

Student work from the Raven Press at the University of Delaware

Friends AGM

Tuesday 30 June 2009

Annual General Meeting of the Friends of St Bride Library. Starts at 6.00pm.

Breathing Broadsheets

Saturday 6 June to Friday 3 July 2009

Broadside and broadsheet exhibition to complement Broadsheet Ballads, a promenade theatre experience by Occam's Razor Theatre Company and St Bride Foundation

Genuine imitations: a type designer's view of revivals

Thursday 28 May 2009

Justin Howes Memorial Lecture given by Matthew Carter

Revival!

Thursday 23 to Friday 24 April 2009

Eighth annual Friends of St Bride Conference

Design Auction

Thursday 19 March 2009

Half of proceeds will be donated to St Bride Library

Lawrence Wallis: an appreciation

Thursday 5 March 2009

A look back at the life and achievements of Lawrence Wallis, who died in 2008

The form of the book

Friday 30 January 2009

A one-day conference on book design

Short run: little presses and experimental book design

Monday 12 to Friday 30 January 2009

Exhibition and illustrated talk showcasing the book design and production practices of five London-based little presses

Jost Hochuli: Systematic book design?

Thursday 27 November 2008

Jost Hochuli discusses typographic detailing

Grand re-opening of the Library Reading Room

Thursday 20 November 2008

Evening reception celebrating this milestone in the Library’s history

Letterpress: a celebration

Friday 7 November 2008

Letterpress printing is alive and well in the twenty-first century. Share and learn about how and why.

Glasgow 501: Out of Print

Tuesday 21 October 2008

Find out about this new group based at Glasgow School of Art

Seeking inspiration

Thursday 15 to Friday 16 May 2008

Seventh annual Friends of St Bride Conference

The Universal Samaritan? Emery Walker and his house in Hammersmith

Wednesday 30 April 2008

An introduction to the life of Emery Walker. Illustrated talk at St Bride Library

From hot metal to hot keys: fifty years of turmoil

Tuesday 22 April 2008

Printing Historical Society conference 2008

Populating Paternoster Row

Tuesday 26 February 2008

Justin Howes memorial lecture given by Michelle P. Brown

A tribute to love

Thursday 31 January 2008

Five centuries of heartfelt design

Magazines are Dead! Long live the Magazine!

Friday 25 January 2008

One-day conference examining the thriving world of twenty first century magazine design

Charles Mozley: artist and illustrator 1914?1991

Monday 7 to Thursday 31 January 2008

Exhibition at St Bride Library

Peter Anderson: graphic art

Tuesday 27 November 2007

Illustrated talk covering an eclectic portfolio

Find out more about the Friends

Wednesday 21 November 2007

Find out more about the Friends

Andrew Haslam: Book Design

Wednesday 31 October 2007

Talk and one-night exhibition

Non-Latin typeface design

Tuesday 18 to Wednesday 19 September 2007

The St Bride Library and the Department of Typography, University of Reading are collaborating on a two-day conference on non-Latin typeface design. The conference will be on Tuesday 18 and Wednesday 19 September 2007, and will comprise a day of talks at St Bride Library, London, and a day of hands-on sessions at the Department of Typography, Reading.

Temporary closure of the reading room

3 September to Monday 22 October 2007

While the reading room is relocated within the building

Jan Tschichold: type designs and typography

Tuesday 19 June to Thursday 23 August 2007

The lecture draws on new archive research to bring early typeface designs by Tschichold back into focus. The exhibition shows the books and other publications in which he explained the New Typography

Friends AGM

Tuesday 19 June 2007

Annual General Meeting of the Friends of St Bride Library. Starts at 6.00pm.

Great British Design?

Thursday 31 May to Friday 1 June 2007

Sixth annual Friends of St Bride Library conference

Re-reading Beatrice

Thursday 31 May 2007

Beatrice Warde Memorial Lecture, given by Gerard Unger

6,000,000 impressions

Tuesday 8 May to Thursday 14 June 2007

Varied in form, the books produced by Tara Publishing of Chennai, India, are united by the central vision of combining experimentation with communication, content and politics. Tara is especially known for pioneering the book made entirely by hand for the general reader.

Siren Flags

Tuesday 13 March to Thursday 19 April 2007

During the 1940s the printed headscarf became a fashion staple that spoke of glamour, emancipation and economic independence of women. These printed objects, now rare, provide compelling and decorative evidence of these transformations.

Transitional faces: searching for Richard Austin

Tuesday 20 February 2007

Second annual Justin Howes memorial lecture

Typography: Alan Kitching at St Bride Library

Tuesday 13 February to Thursday 8 March 2007

Alan Kitching shows significant works and shares seminal influences from his fifty-year career.

Contemporary book design

Friday 19 January 2007

A one-day conference

Toy Theatre Tea Party

Sunday 10 December 2006

In honour of the 150th birthday of Benjamin Pollock of Hoxton with live performance, children's activities, and more

Printing the toy theatre

Tuesday 21 November 2006 to Thursday 4 January 2007

A display of prints, plates and ephemera showing how new plays in nineteenth-century London were reproduced in miniature

Book collecting: fifty years' publications

26 October to Thursday 16 November 2006

Celebrating fifty years of the Private Libraries Association

Fast type, slow type

Monday 16 to Wednesday 18 October 2006

The fifth annual Friends conference taking place this year at the Custard Factory, Birmingham

Pen and print

Tuesday 3 to Thursday 19 October 2006

Marking the centenary of Edward Johnston's Writing and Illuminating, and Lettering

From stage to page: Edward Gordon Craig and the Cranach Press Hamlet

Tuesday 1 August to Thursday 14 September 2006

Exhibition and lecture on an artist's book which has become a milestone in the history of the private press

Jan Tschichold at Penguin Books

Tuesday 6 June 2006

Surveys classical book designs from the leading light of the New Typography movement

Newspaper design

Friday 19 May 2006

A day of talks at the Library

Swiss typography

4 May to Thursday 15 June 2006

Talk and exhibition by Richard Hollis. The chance to see original examples of work from the luminaries of Swiss typographic style from the 1920s to the 1970s.

Celebrating women in printing and the graphic arts

Tuesday 7 March to Thursday 27 April 2006

Two events focusing on women as printers and graphic designers

Handmade type

Tuesday 21 February 2006

Justin Howes memorial lecture

Collotype past and present

Tuesday 24 January to Thursday 23 February 2006

Talk and exhibition which will reveal the extraordinary quality and scope of collotype printing.

Influence and inspiration

Wednesday 16 November to Thursday 15 December 2005

the work of Peggy Angus: paintings, portraits, teaching aids and hand printed wallpapers, and the work of five who were influenced and inspired by Peggy Angus while learning with her.

Temporary type: fourth annual Friends of St Bride Library conference

Monday 10 to Wednesday 12 October 2005

More details are on our conference page

The Graven Image Press: lettercutting and visual metaphor in the work of Stan Greer

Wednesday 7 September to Thursday 6 October 2005

private view on 6 September, exhibition from 7 September

Ian Hamilton Finlay: of conceits and collaborators

Tuesday 26 July to Thursday 1 September 2005

Exhibition viewing and Collaborators? Forum, Tuesday 26 July; exhibition, Wednesday 27 July to Thursday 1 September 2005.

From chisel to pen: inscriptional letterforms from early Christian Wales

Tuesday 10 May to Thursday 16 June 2005

Lecture Tuesday 10 May; exhibition 11 May?16 June; private view Tuesday 10 May, from 5.30pm

Harry Carter, man of type

Tuesday 26 April 2005

talk and book launch

Third Tuesday

Sunday 24 April 2005

Monthly social

Hans Schmoller: the Penguin years

Tuesday 11 January 2005

Talk and exhibition

Mistral and the ?shopping list? types

Tuesday 16 November 2004

Talk

Gig Art

Tuesday 9 November to Sunday 5 December 2004

Contemporary newspaper design

Tuesday 28 September 2004

Talk and book launch

Type is a design tool

Tuesday 13 July 2004

Talk by Bruno Maag

The Century Guild and its ?Hobby Horse?

Tuesday 18 May 2004

Talk by Stuart Evans

Re-opening of the Library

Thursday 6 May 2004

Type now

Tuesday 16 March 2004

Talk and exhibition by Fred Smeijers

Russian avant-garde and tradition: books and ephemera of the 1920s

Tuesday 27 January 2004

Talk by Catherine Cooke

Robert Gibbings, a man of words and images

Tuesday 18 November 2003

Talk by Martin Andrews

Older events at the Library

Friday 23 March 2001 to Tuesday 16 September 2003

Older event notices and reviews

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