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  • D&AD Festival 2025

    D&AD Festival 2025

    Start date: 21 May 2025End date: 22 May 2025More info At the Festival we will cover jury insights fresh from our 2025 juries, creative excellence, tech and AI, best-in-class craft, design & advertising, BTS deep dives into the work and giving the people behind it a stage, fireside chats and interviews of incredible creatives, networking…

  • Public Space Academy: Keynote by Carlos Moreno

    Public Space Academy: Keynote by Carlos Moreno

    Date: 28 March 2025More info The Public Space Academy is proud to present the Keynote Lecture Series, featuring leading academics, practitioners and urban innovators working on the theory and practice of public space. We are glad to have as the third 2025 Keynote Lecturer Prof. Carlos Moreno, the Scientific Director of the research lab “Entrepreneurship…

  • Plan.City – Urban Planning in a Game Engine

    Plan.City – Urban Planning in a Game Engine

    Date: 17 March 2025More info Game Engines such as Epic Games’ Unreal Engine are often used by architects to create visualisations and interactive presentations. UE5-powered Plan.City is used by architects, planners and consultants to quickly create and explore design iterations compliant with various planning restrictions and regulations. Developed to assist planners in London, the app…

  • Culture, the Arts, Creative Placemaking, and the Software of City Making

    Culture, the Arts, Creative Placemaking, and the Software of City Making

    Date: 13 March 2025 13 March 2025 Rana Amirtahmasebi and Jason Schupbach’s talk Much attention about the present and future of cities focusses on the hardware of highways and infrastructure, airports and flood defenses: what is missing are conversations about the software which is culture. We need to reframe how we talk about culture in…

  • Herb Lubalin Lecture: Gráfica de la República

    Herb Lubalin Lecture: Gráfica de la República

    Date: 31 March 2025More info In this talk, Jordi Duró will explain how the “Cubist” graphic style invaded Spain in the 1930s. From Conservatives to Revolutionaires and up and down the social ladder, this avant-garde style was embraced by Spanish society in a manner never seen before or afterwards. The Republic’s defeat in the Civil…

  • Herb Lubalin Lecture: Squaring the circle

    Herb Lubalin Lecture: Squaring the circle

    Start date: 25 March 2025End date: 26 March 2025More info A reflection on a practice by Ben Fehrman-Lee, occasionally at odds with itself: a specialised interest in type design as it relates to a broader practice in graphic design. This relationship will be narrated through a series of case studies of both personal investigations and…

  • TypoCircle Presents: Studio Kiln

    TypoCircle Presents: Studio Kiln

    Date: 27 March 2025More info Studio Kiln is an award winning creative practice that designs lifeful brands, narratives and digital experiences that resonate with the world we live in. They partner with those who wish to stand out and stand for something, and to create work that connects today and has the emotional durability to…

  • Plan.City: Urban planning in a game engine

    Plan.City: Urban planning in a game engine

    Date: 17 March 2025More info Game Engines such as Epic Games’ Unreal Engine are often used by architects to create visualisations and interactive presentations. UE5-powered Plan.City is used by architects, planners and consultants to quickly create and explore design iterations compliant with various planning restrictions and regulations. Developed to assist planners in London, the app…

  • The Art of Looking: 20 years of the Justin Howe Memorial Lecture

    The Art of Looking: 20 years of the Justin Howe Memorial Lecture

    Date: 10 April 2025More info Join St Bride Foundation as we commemorate two decades of the Justin Howes Memorial Lecture with an exploration into ‘The Art of Looking’. For this special event, we’re bringing together eight speakers who’ll share their unique perspectives on typography and type design. From uncovering small details to seeing the bigger…

  • St Bride Foundation Talk – Piet Zwart: NKF and the New Typography

    St Bride Foundation Talk – Piet Zwart: NKF and the New Typography

    Date: 1 April 2025More info In 1923, Piet Zwart was introduced to the Nederlandsche Kabelfabriek (Netherlands Cable Works or “NKF”), thus starting a new phase in his career as a graphic designer. Inspired by the ideals of De Stijl, as well as the graphics of El Lissitzky and Kurt Schwitters, Zwart began to experiment with…