Jost Hochuli discusses typographic detailing
Evening reception celebrating this milestone in the Library’s history
Letterpress printing is alive and well in the twenty-first century. Share and learn about how and why.
Find out about this new group based at Glasgow School of Art
An introduction to the life of Emery Walker. Illustrated talk at St Bride Library
Printing Historical Society conference 2008
Justin Howes memorial lecture given by Michelle P. Brown
One-day conference examining the thriving world of twenty first century magazine design
Exhibition at St Bride Library
Illustrated talk covering an eclectic portfolio
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.
While the reading room is relocated within the building
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
Annual General Meeting of the Friends of St Bride Library. Starts at 6.00pm.
Sixth annual Friends of St Bride Library conference
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.
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.
Second annual Justin Howes memorial lecture
Alan Kitching shows significant works and shares seminal influences from his fifty-year career.
In honour of the 150th birthday of Benjamin Pollock of Hoxton with live performance, children's activities, and more
A display of prints, plates and ephemera showing how new plays in nineteenth-century London were reproduced in miniature
Celebrating fifty years of the Private Libraries Association
The fifth annual Friends conference taking place this year at the Custard Factory, Birmingham
Marking the centenary of Edward Johnston's Writing and Illuminating, and Lettering
Exhibition and lecture on an artist's book which has become a milestone in the history of the private press
Surveys classical book designs from the leading light of the New Typography movement
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.
Two events focusing on women as printers and graphic designers
Talk and exhibition which will reveal the extraordinary quality and scope of collotype printing.
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.
More details are on our conference page
private view on 6 September, exhibition from 7 September
Exhibition viewing and Collaborators? Forum, Tuesday 26 July; exhibition, Wednesday 27 July to Thursday 1 September 2005.
Lecture Tuesday 10 May; exhibition 11 May?16 June; private view Tuesday 10 May, from 5.30pm
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