A short film about Baskerville’s punches will be screened for the first time at Winterbourne House in Birmingham on 12 February. It demonstrates Baskerville’s working methods and provides insights into his craftsmanship. The evening will also include talks about the wider project. The event is free, but booking is essential: see the Centre for Printing […]
Conference in Birmingham
April 15, 2018
Registration is open for a conference at the Centre for Printing History and Culture at Birmingham City University. Script, print, and letterforms in global contexts: the visual and the material will be held on Thursday 28 June and Friday 29 June, and more details of speakers etc, and booking details can be found on the […]
Programme on Gill and Johnston type
July 31, 2017
Marl Ovenden’s documentary on the Gill and Johnston typefaces was broadcast on BBC4 on 31 July. It is available on the iPlayer for the next couple of weeks through the BBC website.
Typography and design lecture
October 1, 2016
Gen Harrison, Compositor and Property Manager at Robert Smail’s Printing Works, will take the audience through the qualities and quirks of typography and graphic design before the days of desk top publishing. Anyone who is thrilled by the use of a good typeface or appreciates graphic design as an art form will enjoy this fascinating […]
Doves Press type recovered
February 20, 2015
Designer Robert Green has been trying to recover the Doves Press type, thrown into the Thames at Hammersmith Bridge by T J Cobden-Sanderson in 1913, after a dispute with his former business partner Emery Walker. Green has been able to recover about 150 pieces of type (the rest have been covered on concrete during repairs […]
Anniversary website celebrating Aldus Manutius
November 14, 2014
Manutius Network 2015 is a website, set up by the Consortium of European Research Libraries, dedicated to the events for the celebrations of the fifth centenary of Aldus’s death in 2015. The aim is to provide a comprehensive picture of the conferences, seminars and exhibitions in honour of Aldus, the Aldine press and its books […]
Do typefaces really matter?
July 1, 2010
The magazine section of the BBC website has an article discussing of the effect on readers, of various typefaces and fonts.
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