Title: Letterpress: a celebration
Location: St Bride Library Bride Lane, Fleet Street London EC4Y 8EE
Description: events with our RSS feed.
Type Dump: image from the Out of Print research cluster at Glasgow School of Art
Letterpress is again to be celebrated, or so the growing popularity of the process would certainly suggest. Increasing numbers around the world are setting up their own small studios, looking for tuition, or commissioning letterpress within commercial design work. All this thirty years after the process effectively became commercially obsolete. And in spite of the fact that letterpress can be messy and slow, often requires a lot of space, not to mention the considerable constraints it brings to layout, colour, artwork and type. So why do so many people still want to get involved, and how do they make a success of their efforts?
Join us at St Bride Library to review and discuss the phenomenon of letterpress in the twenty-first century through a packed one-day programme of talks, demonstrations and displays of work. Meet practitioners and exchange stories as we bring together the different communities working with letterpress, from printers and designers to students and general enthusiasts. Be inspired and maybe even find out what you need to set up on your own!
Speakers
- Phil Abel – Hand & Eye Letterpress
- Claire Bolton – The Alembic Press
- Alex Cooper & Rose Gridneff – London College of Communication
- Alan Kitching & Celia Stothard – The Typography Workshop
- Alan May – Press builder
- Harry McIntosh – Compositor and typecaster
- John Randle – Whittington Press
- Patrick Walker – dust
Tickets
- Full rate: £60 / £50 Friends of St Bride Library
- Students, over 60s: £30 / £25 Friends of St Bride Library
Start Time: 09:30
Date: 2008-11-07
End Time: 17:00
- Bunch Title: Bunch Location: Main Lecture Theatre London College of Communication Description: Please reserve a place by emailing graphics@lcc.arts.ac.uk Tickets are £5 (£3 for UAL students and staff with valid ID cards) cash only on the door – tickets include a beer and a mince pie after the lecture. — Bunch was formed in 2002 by Denis [...]...
- Talk Show ICA Title: Talk Show ICALocation: ICADescription: Talk Show: A month-long season of artworks and live events addressing that central feature of human life - the act of speechStart Time: 19:00Date: 2009-05-19 This event brings together live performances by four figures who experiment with sound poetry and musical structure, tracing a lineage from Dada and Fluxus. Poet Ann-James [...]...
- The Form of the Book Title: The Form of the Book Location: St Bride Library, London Description: The Form of the Book brings together highly acclaimed graphic designers, design critics and design historians to discuss various aspects of book design. Start Time: 09:30 Date: 2009-01-30 End Time: 17:30 The Form of the Book brings together highly acclaimed graphic designers, design critics and design historians to discuss various aspects [...]...
- Jost Hochuli: Systematic book design? Title: Jost Hochuli: Systematic book design? Location: Bridewell Hall, St Bride Foundation Description: The adjective ‘systematic’ (from the Greek word ‘systematikos’) means, in one dictionary definition: ‘proceeding from a system, methodical, planned; corresponding to a system’. Systematic book design thus means: book design that follows a plan fixed before the work begins. A conscious, rational procedure sooner [...]...
- Friends of the Divided Mind Title: Friends of the Divided Mind Location: Royal College of Art, Kensington Gore, London SW7 2EU Description: 18 - 29 March 2009 Open daily 11am - 6pm Admission free Final year Curating Contemporary Art students organise and curate an exhibition and public events programme. The aim of the exhibition is to explore and debate what art institutions mean in [...]...