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: Back to Basics
Location: 9 Newburgh St, W1 (nearby Carnaby St)
Description: 30 Graphic designers from the Masters course at the London College of Communication investigate the bare basics of design through the exploration of circles, squares and triangles in a pop-up gallery of Carnaby Street. They will be showcasing personal interpretations of the concept Back to Basics.

An array of works ranging from prints, posters, books, t-shirts and photographic prints will be displayed. Christmas shoppers will be able to browse limited edition design and pick up something special for under £20.
Start Time: 18:00
Date: 2008-12-11

Amandine * will be part of the show above - selling the Book as Block poster … * disclosure: Amandine is contributing to Tlktlk.

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: Most Beautiful Swiss Books 2007
Location: Cafe Oto, Dalston
Description: The Helvetic Centre and the Swiss Federal Office of Culture would like to invite you to the opening on the 19 November 2008 at 7pm. Hans Muster, director of Helvetic Centre will have a few words and guests from Switzerland will introduce the competition and the catalogue.
Please reserve Saturday afternoon 29 November for there will be a workshop held in the exhibition with guests from London and Switzerland. For further information go to www.helveticcentre.ch
Start Date: 2008-11-19
Start Time: 19:00
End Date: 2008-11-30

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

Title: Dot Dot Dot Magazine Evenings
Location: Somerset House at The Studio
Description: Dexter Sinister organise three nights of talks, which will create the content for the next issue
of internationally renowned arts journal Dot Dot Dot. Dexter Sinister will effectively compose a \’live\’ issue of the complete journal, existing in ‘real’ time before being hardened into printed form.
(Limited capacity)
Wednesday 29 October, Thursday 30 October, Friday 31 October

Date: 2008-10-28

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: 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.