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  • Environmental branding - graphic design for cities

    A Talk by Chris Edmunds, United Creatives Thursday 7th June at 6.30pm   United Creatives are a graphic design agency specialising in works for the spatial environment and embracing mediums beyond paper and ink otherwise alien to graphic design. Ins...
  • Wayfinding and signing in Asia

    {jcomments off}A talk by Nic Banks, Founder of Atelier Pacific Tuesday 13th November at Gensler, Aldgate House, 33 Aldgate High Street, London EC3N 1AH   In recent years, many parts of Asia have become high-density urban environments where people are...
  • Arabic in multi-script signage and wayfinding

    A talk by Julia Petretta Friday 20th July 2012 at 6.00pm Keep it simple and don’t make people think – this is the common ground rule for signage and wayfinding designers. Simplification in multi-script wayfinding environments however is anyth...
  • Visual clues in light

    {jcomments off}A talk by Speirs + Major Thursday 6th December at 6.00pm at ARUP, 13 Fitzroy Street London W1T 4BQ (followed by our xmas soiree)   Light is an intrinsic part of our lives, our cultural make up and our means of experiencing spaces a...
  • Transforming Exhibition Road

    A talk on the ongoing transformation by Edward Jones, Dixon Jones Thursday 2nd February 2012 at 6.30pm Exhibition Road is home to some of Britain’s most important institutions and in 2004 was the subject of an international competition for design...
  • The history of the Johnston typeface

    A talk on Edward Johnston's Underground Lettering - a century of influence on signs and identity by Mike Ashworth Tuesday 3rd April 2012 at 6.30pm Nearly a century has passed since the commissioning in 1916 by the London Underground group...
  • Mile-a-minute typography

    {jcomments off}A Talk by Richard Simon, Applied Date and venue to be confirmed (carried over from 2012)   In December 1961 Herbert Spencer published an article in Typographica 4 called Mile-a-minute Typography. in it he voiced the "urgent need to re...
  • Towards clearer sign language

    A Talk by Martin Cutts, Research Director of Plain Language Commission Thursday 6th September at 6.30pm   After getting a £100 ticket from a private parking company, Martin Cutts won a court case  in 2011 because the judge found the car-park’s...
  • Practical Human Factors and Sign Design

    A talk by John Wood, Executive Chairman, CCD Design & Ergonomics Thursday 3rd May 2012 at 6.30pm Human factors is regarded as a dark art whose practitioners have a tendency to respond to queries with ‘well it depends’. This talk is intended to d...
  • Lighting installations

    A talk by Jason Bruges Thursday 8th March 2012 at 6.30pm Jason Bruges Studio, formed in April 2002, design and build interactive installations across four key sectors. These sectors include architecture, art, experiential marketing and lighting design c...
  • Crowd patterns of behaviour

    A talk by Alan Penn Wednesday 7th September 2011 at 6.30pm Alan Penn, Professor of Architectural and Urban Computing at The Bartlett, University College London, will talk about 'space syntax' research into the way that the design of spaces within and be...
  • Environmental graphics

    A talk by Morag Myerscough, Studio Myerscough Thursday 6th October, 6.30pm at The Gallery, EC1 “I definitely like solving things. I love information and I love interpreting that information. Not one to take the usual approach, my work is innovative, e...
  • Type design

    A talk on type design by Jeremy Tankard Wednesday 11th January 2012, 6.30pm at John Lewis, Victoria Jeremy has been involved with typefaces and lettering since graduating from the Royal College of Art in 1993. Initially he worked at Addison Design Cons...
  • Accessibility for all in the Built Environment

    A Talk by Margaret Hickish Thursday 8th December, 6.00pm at The Gallery, EC1 (please note the earlier time) Followed by a Christmas soirée with quality food and drinks! Managing Director of Design 4 Inclusion and with an impressive pedigree including ...
  • Changing times with ISO7010

    A talk on safety signing by Jim Creak, Jalite PLC Thursday 3rd November, 6.30pm at John Lewis, Victoria BSi is adopting the newly revised international standard for safety signs, ISO 7010, which has implications for many of the existing British Standard...
  • New Generation Rail Stations – will they be fit for purpose?

    A talk by Nille Juul-Sørensen, Arup Thursday 12th May 2011 at 6.30pm How can transport systems and rail stations be designed to deliver a service for a new generation of passengers? In recent years, technology has radically altered the way we live o...
  • Some are Visitors

    A talk by Lucy Holmes of Holmes Wood Wednesday 6th July 2011 at 6.30pm Lucy Holmes, founding Partner of Holmes Wood will talk about graphic design in the environment, making the leap from the printed page to a whole new world of scale, dimension, materi...
  • Tour of new signage at Northwood Headquarters

    A tour led by Andrew Barker Wednesday 27th July 2011, 1pm-4pm Meet at Northwood tube station at 12.30pm Each member will need to bring two forms of identification, ideally one should be a passport and the other could be, for instance, a ...
  • Formula Legibilis - The principles of legible cities

    A talk by Tim Fendley Wednesday 3rd November 2010 at 6.30pm Wayfinding in cities is fundamentally an issue of urban design and architecture. Recent projects in Bristol, Brighton and London have made extensive use of information design and legibility pri...
  • Dubai: a metropolis new to metro

    A talk by Tony Howard, Managing Director, Transport Design Consultancy (TDC) Thursday 7th April at 6.30pm Dubai Metro opened in 2009. It is the first passenger railway in the UAE and set to be one of the world's largest fully automated metros when compl...