Event categories: Third-party event
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Information+ 2027
Start date: 7 June 2027End date: 9 June 2027More info Information+ is a biennial conference that brings together researchers, educators, and practitioners working across Information Design and Data Visualization to grapple with the questions shaping these rapidly-evolving fields. The conference opens up interdisciplinary conversation on how data and information take shape within social, political, and…
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Design Week: Chris Haughton on the History of Information
Date: 7 November 2026More info A talk by designer, illustrator and best-selling author Chris Haughton exploring the evolution of knowledge, communication, and information. The talk is based on Haughton’s debut non-fiction book ‘The History of Information’ and leads to a new project between Haughton and the National Print Museum, supported by Design Week. [Tickets are…
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Jeff Jarvis: ‘Hot Type: The Magnificent Machine That Gave Birth to Mass Media and Drove Mark Twain Mad’
Date: 10 October 2026More info Jeff Jarvis introduces his new book, Hot Type: The Magnificent Machine That Gave Birth to Mass Media and Drove Mark Twain Mad, at a day of events co-hosted by The Historic New England Center and the Museum of Printing in Haverhill, Massachusetts. Jarvis will discuss his book and how the Linotype…
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Interreg for Sustainable Urban Mobility
Date: 9 October 2026 EIT Urban Mobility will participate in the next The Interreg for a Greener Europe webinar edition, providing a platform for the Interreg community to exchange insights on Policy Objective 2 (PO2) topics. This episode will focus on sustainable urban mobility. More than 70% of EU citizens live in urban areas, which…
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Book Launch: Mapping Britain’s Railways
Date: 18 November 2026More info Railway diagrams have been at the forefront of mapping Britain’s railways since they first began operating 200 years ago – a journey from A to B has always needed to be easily and quickly understood. ‘Mapping Britain’s Railways’ reveals the surprising history of how British railway cartographers have led the…
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Type Archived: Inside London’s Remarkable Type Archive
Date: 14 October 2026More info Richard Ardagh explores the treasures of London’s Type Archive and the craft, design and history of the printed letter. Richard will introduce Type Archived, his recently published book documenting the treasures of traditional typefounding held at London’s Type Archive. Drawing on highlights from a collection of some eight million objects,…
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Lubalin Lecture Series: On Designing Rempart
Date: 3 November 2026More info An in-depth look at Rempart, an irreverant take on François Ganeau’s Vendome, with Douglas Hayes. Coming to life through film titles, over-inked specimens, candy bar wrappers, RPG games, castle diagrams, and culinary ephemera, Rempart is a reinterpretation that’s familiar in spirit, but brand new in form. [Free to attend. Please…
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Lubalin Lecture Series: “In vain!” Selling Auriol as a text typeface
Date: 12 October 2026More info Typefaces are often categorised as either “display types” (attention-grabbing designs made for short bursts of text, often large) or “text types” (unobtrusive designs in small point sizes that are comfortable for longer reads). In the early twentieth century, the Parisian typefoundry Peignot et Fils released the Auriol family. With its…
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Winchester Print Fair 2027
Start date: 22 May 2027End date: 23 May 2027More info The UK’s tiniest print fair! Winchester Print Fair returns for its sixth year in 2027 with a two day event on in late May. Applications now open for printers to participate. More information coming soon.
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Talk: Letter Carving in London
Date: 5 November 2026More info Lettering Arts Trust Director Mark Noad will speak about the varied lettering all around us in London. Look down and look up, lettering art is every where, from Roman times to the present day, lettering artists have designed and carved lettering to give information, directions, or commemorate a life or…