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

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.

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Bunch was formed in 2002 by Denis Kovak and Paulo Silva, graduates from Information Design Pathway of the BA(Hons) Graphic and Media Design course at the London College of Communication later joined by Jo Kotas from Typo/Graphic Design. They currently work out of London, Zagreb and Singapore. Talented friends joined, and the union formed the multidisciplinary design agency that is the Bunch of today.

They use their wide range of specialisation to create intelligent and consistent brands for their clients, including: BBC, Five, HBO, MTV, Diesel, Playstation, 55DSL, Coca-Cola, Ministry of Sound and Sony.

Come along and find out how these LCC graduates have become a huge success.

Check out their work at http://www.bunchdesign.com/index1.php
Start Time: 18:30
Date: 2008-12-04

Title: Don’t Smile Now… Save it for Later!
Location: Donlon Books - 210 Cambridge Heath Road
Description: A new publication is out now! Don’t Smile Now… Save it for Later! The project shows views from London photo booths. By using a mirror, keeping the curtain open and paying the necessary £4, the booth takes a polaroid of its own surroundings. A book launch will be held at Donlon Books (210 Cambridge Heath Road, London) on the 5th of December from 6 to 9pm. Copies will be available for £25.
Start Time: 18:00
Date: 2008-12-05
End Time: 21:00

Title: ‘In the eye of the reader’
Location: Cafe Oto, Dalston
Description: Most Beautiful Swiss Books 2007 discussion with Roland Brauchli from Graphic Thought Facility and further guests.
Start Time: 12:00
Date: 2008-11-28

Title: ‘What makes the book’
Location: Cafe Oto, Dalston
Description: Most Beautiful Swiss Books 2007 discussion with Sean Murphy and Corina Neuenschwander from Value and Service
Start Time: 12:00
Date: 2008-11-26

Title: ‘Something to say – and the need of that form to say it’
Location: Cafe Oto, Dalston
Description: Most Beautiful Swiss Books 2007 discussion with Jost Hochuli, Ron Costley, James Goggin and Laurent Benner
Start Time: 14:00
Date: 2008-11-29

Title: The First Pictures I Enjoyed
Location: Frieze Talks
Description: Writer and artist Alasdair Gray in conversation with novelist and artist Tom McCarthy.

Start Time: 15:00
Date: 2008-10-17

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 or later reaches an end: the unconscious – or that which is a matter of feeling – plays a large and often decisive role in design. Using examples from some of his own works, Jost Hochuli will try to show where the irrational has resolved rational decisons.

After this talk Jost will be happy to answer questions both on book design and aspects of typographic detailing, the subject of his new book \’Detail in typography\’. Copies of this book published by Hyphen Press will be available for on sale on the evening at a specially discounted rate.

About the speaker

Jost Hochuli is a Swiss typographer and graphic designer. After study at the Kunstgewerbeschule St.Gallen, he trained as a compositor with the printer Zollikofer and at the Kunstgewerbeschule Zürich; his education was completed in 1958–9 in Adrian Frutiger’s class at the Ecole Estienne. Since then he has practised as a freelance graphic designer, eventually specializing in book design. In 1979 he co-founded the co-operatively run publishing company VGS Verlagsgemeinschaft St.Gallen, for which much of his book design work has been done. He has taught at the schools at Zurich and then St Gallen since 1967. As writer and editor, his books include Book design in Switzerland (1993), Designing books (1996), and a major monograph on his work: Jost Hochuli: Printed matter, mainly books (2002). An English-language edition of his Detail in typography was published earlier this year. He has edited and designed the annually published ‘Typotron’ series of booklets (1983–98) and the Edition ‘Ostschweiz’ (from 2000).

Start Time: 19:00
Date: 2008-11-27

Title: ZineSwap Launch
Location: Bricklane - RAQ Factory

Rag Factory
16-18 Heneage Street
(Just off brick Lane)
Description: Zine Swap Shop:
This will be a chance for you to bring along your zines and swap them with other people. You will give us your zines, and in return will be given a selection of other people\’s work.

Zineswap aims to be a resource through which people can swap their zines with one-another.

It also aims to become a vast archive of contemporary zine publishing, existing as both an online catalogue
and an annual exhibition.

They are looking for contributions from people that self-publish their own zine or magazine. Content is not limited in anyway, your zine can be about anything.

Start Time: 13:00
Date: 2008-11-01

URL: http://www.zineswap.com/

(* bring your own booze)

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Title: F.R.DAVID “A is for ‘Orses’” - out in advance of the official distribution
Location: Artwords
Description: In advance of the official distribution,
there should be enough copies of this issue on sale, for £9
at Artwords

Start Time: 10:30
Date: 2008-09-05

This issue (edited by Will Holder) had its inception
within notions of idiolects and personal vocabularies,
and later went on to encompass notions of the subjective
editorial process of speech, abstractions of speech,
and logic and mathematics as means of subjective categorisation.