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”.
