Thursday, February 4, 2010
The first Type Talk of 2010
Peter Enneson on the Dutch Graphic Designer’s 1952 Initials
Thursday February 25th at 7pm
The Urban Gallery, 401 Richmond St. West (right beside Swipe Books). $10 at the door.
The Raffia Initialen are the ‘distinctive name’ for a set of highly salient typographic letterforms designed by Henk Krijger and released by Lettergeiterij Amsterdam in 1952. They were distributed in North America by Amsterdam Continental Types and Graphic Equipment Inc. in electrotype format, and later through VGC on strips of typositor film. The initials as a collection have strong links with writing. As distinctive graphs they have a place within the larger oeuvre of their creator. This presentation places these initials inside those two frames.
Please join us on Thursday June 25th, 7:00 p.m. at the Urban Gallery beside Swipe Books, 401 Richmond Ave. W. for our next talk. Admission is $10 at the door.
Mark Fram will deliver a talk on Topographic Typography:
Words on words on maps
Are rivers always in italics?
Are bigger cities really bolder?
Are serif cities better than sans?
What do cartographers know that you don’t?
Join us to find out.
Wednesday, April 15, 2009
A talk by Nick Shinn.
April 30th 7:00 p.m. at The Urban Gallery (beside Swipe Books), 401 Richmond St $10.00 at the door
For all the design profession’s infatuation with it, Modernism was a marginal influence on the typography of 20th century mass media, where the dominant force was Historicism. In fact, the most radical and sweeping changes in type design occurred in the early 19th century. In a process of critical design, Nick Shinn has explored this phenomenon through the revival of two types from that era–Scotch Modern and Figgins Sans–recently published as the Modern Suite. This presentation follows his work from a critique of conventional wisdom to the discovery of new relationships between culture, technology, and designed form. Following the talk, Nick will be signing copies of his book, “The Modern Suite”.
Type comes alive this summer as Buffalo plays host to TypeCon2008: Punkt. From the irreverent to the serious, the eclectic to the traditional, and the modern to the historical, SOTA’s tenth conference is a letterfest of talks, workshops, tours, exhibitions, and special events created for type lovers at every level. (Continued)
On Wednesday May 21st we are pleased to present our 7th Speakers’ Night.
Dominic Ayre and Rod McDonald will talk about the future of typography in a digital world while Donna Braggins moderates.
As of May 1st, Swipe Books has moved into a beautiful new space at 401 Richmond. The hours and phone numbers are still the same and the ever expanding content is just as rich as ever.
The Type Club is very pleased to be holding two Events inside the bookstore this fall. We hope to see you there and that you take the time to visit the space before our fall program is formally announced.
Wednesday, April 23, 2008
Our next talk is Tuesday April 29th at 7:00 p.m. at the Arts & Letters Club, 14 Elm St.
