Event categories: Third-party event
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Supercondensed+9, a mini festival
Date: 13 June 2024More info A day of online and in-person talks, workshops and portfolio reviews… A crash course in the design and advertising industry, live from Kyoto, Tokyo, Vietnam, Korea and London! A small number of in-person tickets are available to students and recent graduates in London. This will be held at G.F. Smith,…
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TypoCircle: Matt Lamont – collecting, curating and preserving histories
Date: 27 June 2024More info An illustrated talk with Matt Lamont of Design Reviewed. Matt’s vast collection of graphic design spans over a century, encompassing a remarkable collection of well over 5,000 artefacts. Ranging from the opulent and decorative crafted designs of the Victorian era to the rebellious and boundary-pushing graphic assemblage of the 1980s,…
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1970s old school lettering skills with Michael Doret & Norman Hathaway
Date: 17 June 2024More info A journey through the time tunnel back to the 1970s when proletariat lettering artists created their artwork using plastic circle templates, German cartridge pens, adjustable triangles, and razor blades. Contemporary designers are infatuated with lettering generated during the seventies but have had little access to how the designs were actually…
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What is realness? Freeing type from a fixed viewpoint
Date: 10 June 2024More info This talk will take place in-person at The Cooper Union & will be live-streamed. A link to access the livestream will be sent 24 hours prior to the event. Can a single typeface express diverse viewpoints through its own functionality? Partners from two design studios, Polymode and XYZ Type, discuss…
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World Urban Forum 12
Start date: 4 November 2024End date: 9 November 2024More info Convened by UN-Habitat, the Forum is a high level, open and inclusive platform for addressing the challenges of sustainable urbanisation. Representatives of national, regional and local governments, academics, business people, community leaders, urban planners and civil society representatives will be among the thousands of people…
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Stoke Newington Literary Festival: Get (typography) experimental with Sarah Hyndman
Date: 9 June 2024More info Why Fonts Matter author and Type Tasting founder Sarah Hyndman is writing a new book. Join her for an experiment-filled session and become part of the test group. She’ll be asking weird questions like: Do letter shapes alter what you taste? Can language transfer a real smell into your brain?…
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The Murray Lecture: Shaping the future of global cities
Date: 4 July 2024More info Join Peter Murray for the inaugural Murray Lecture, followed by a conversation with Beatrice Galilee, exploring London’s position on the global stage. Delving into the essence of what makes London the greatest city in the world, Peter Murray will discuss the key elements of great cities, with Beatrice Galilee, British…
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Type Tuesday: MuirMcNeil’s Two System
Date: 4 June 2024More info Eye magazine’s popular Type Tuesday returns in June with designers Hamish Muir and Paul McNeil. who explore systematic and algorithmic methods in type design, graphic design and moving image. (See also ‘Pleasure in the process’ in Eye 94, whose 8000 different covers were designed by MuirMcNeil.). Muir and McNeil will talk…
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ANFA Doctoral Platform: Neuroscientific insights on wayfinding
Date: 30 May 2024More info Dr Demet Yesiltepe (University of Sheffield) discusses the relationship between wayfinding performance, spatial layout and landmarks in virtual environments. Antonio Sorrentino (Sapienza University of Rome) talks about the spaces of urban decompression in individual and collective experience, a neurophenomenological approach to architecture. YouTube livestream link. Zoom link (Meeting ID: 853…
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Three-day lettercarving workshop with Pip Hall
Start date: 10 July 2024End date: 12 July 2024More info Beginners and intermediate workshop for anyone with enthusiasm anda little patience! L E T T E R C A R V I N G I N S T O N E three-day lettercarving course with Pip Hall, in the heart of the Yorkshire Dales. Fee…