Gerard Unger teaches as Visiting Professor in the Department of Typography and Graphic Communication, The University of Reading, UK. Until recently he also taught at the Gerrit Rietveld Academy, Amsterdam, and in 2006 he became Professor of Typography at the University of Leiden. He has worked as a freelance designer since 1975 and has designed stamps, coins, magazines, newspapers, books, logos, corporate identities, annual reports and other objects, and many typefaces. In 1984 he was awarded the H.N.Werkman Prize for all his typographic work, for digital type designs in particular and for the way he reconciled technology and typographic culture. In 1988 he won the Gravisie-prijs for the concept of Swift, and in 1991 he was awarded the international Maurits Enschedé Prize for all his type designs.
‘Beatrice Warde raised some questions in “The Crystal Goblet” which have inspired me ever since reading that text as a student. She emphasised the invisibility of text faces, but she did not explain the phenomenon. That is something I have tried to do (among other things) in my book. This talk will re-examine The Crystal Goblet – a conversation with Beatrice, to bring her up to date.’
A completely new edition of Gerard Unger’s book on reading, Terwijl je leest, was published in 2006 and English, Italian and Spanish versions will be published this year. This event will conclude with the launch of the English edition, While you’re reading, and the presentation of copies to St Bride Library and the University of Reading.
Copies of While you’re reading will be on sale at the special price of £16.75.
£3.00 of each copy sold or ordered on the night will be donated to St Bride Library.
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