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.
Speakers at the conference at St Bride include Graham Shaw (Head of Asia, Pacific and Africa Collections at the British Library), Victor Gaultney, Thomas Phinney, Simon Prais, Nigel Roche, Mamoun Sakkal, and Maxim Zhukov.
The hands-on day at Reading includes sessions working with original material from collections of both institutions. Sessions will be conducted by: Dr Martin Dodds (Principal Examiner for Urdu, Cambridge International Exams), Jo de Baerdemaeker, Gerry Leonidas, Thomas Milo, and Dr Fiona Ross. As sessions at Reading involve working with original artefacts, places will be limited to 30 persons.
The twin events will be accompanied by substantial exhibitions on the theme of the conference from the collections of both institutions. A lot of this material has rarely been seen before, and certainly not in this concentrated manner. The gems include original drawings for several reference non-Latin typefaces. The exhibitions will be curated by Fiona Ross and Rathna Ramanathan.
Registration fees are £60 for the Tuesday only, and £120 for both days; student fees are £40 and £80 respectively. Accommodation is available on the Reading campus.
The easiest way to buy a conference ticket for yourself is through PayPal. You will receive notification as soon as your payment has been processed, and St Bride Foundation will post the tickets to you as soon as your payment is cleared.
Please note that the workshop at the University of Reading on Wednesday 19 September is now almost fully booked. To book both days, please contact St Bride Foundation.
Contact St Bride Foundation:
info@stbridefoundation.org
020 7353 3331
The University of Reading has accommodation available on campus that would suit anyone attending the second day of the conference in the Department of Typography.
The cost of accommodation, if booked promptly, is £72.85 a night for a single room and £99.87 for a twin room B&B.
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