Title: Wim Crouwel
Location: LCC
Description: Wim Crouwel, born in 1928 in Groningen, Netherlands, is a Dutch graphic designer and typographer. He is known for his posters and exhibition design for the Stedelijk Museum in Amsterdam. Crouwel has designed several font sets, of which the New Alphabet (1967) is best known. New Alphabet is a highly abstract font, based on a dot-matrix system. Crouwel intended it to be easily read by computers.
Start Time: 18:30
Date: 2009-02-05
End Time: 20:30

Title: Stereo Total
Location: Bar Rumba, 36 Shaftesbury Avenue London WC1
Description: For the uninitiated, Berlin duo Stereo Total (that’s pronounced ”toe-TAHL”, as opposed to the North American “toadle”) is comprised of a French female singer and a German keyboard whiz, who sing cute synth-pop in French. And in German. And English. And Japanese. And Spanish. And, erm, Turkish. Sounds a bit out there for some people’s liking, but hey, we already have a bunch of Icelanders who sing in their own warped form of Esperanto over bowed guitars, and they have a cult following. So compared to that, why not have some rather catchy Turkish pop music around as well?
Start Time: 22:00
Date: 2009-01-31

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 of book design.

Themes such as materiality, typographic detailing, design historiography,
artist’s books, methods of production and design ideology run throughout
the day, in an exciting line-up of international speakers.

With Chrissie Charlton, Jenny Eneqvist / Roland Früh / Corina
Neuenschwander, James Goggin, Sarah Gottlieb, Richard Hollis,
Mevis & Van Deursen and Catherine de Smet

Curated by Sara De Bondt and Fraser Muggeridge

For further details and online booking please go to
http://www.stbride.org/events/theformofthebook