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.

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.

TYPECON CONFERENCE
€2 days of optional workshops
€3 days of presentations, panels & discussions
€Gala Party at the Hyatt with Déjà Blü
€Exhibitions, Bookshop, vendor area & Give-aways
€Closing party for attendees at The Roycroft Campus
For Conference attendees only

TYPECON PUBLIC EVENTS
€Pecha Kucha at Hallwalls
Open to the general public ­Free for Conference attendees
€Austrian desinger Stefan Sagmeister at the Karpeles Manuscript Library
Museum
Open to the general public ­Free for Conference attendees
€Dutch design group NLXL at UB
Open to the general public ­Free for Conference attendees
€German design legend Erik Spiekermann at the Albright-Knox Art Gallery
Open to the general public for free
€Music event at Mohawk Place featuring Odiorne & P22 records showcase
Open to the general public ­Free for Conference attendees

€Over 80 presenters & 500 attendees from around the world

One week in Buffalo- It’s big!

Register now, you don’t want to miss this!

http://www.typecon.com

He will be speaking at 7:00 p.m. on Tuesday March 11th at the Arts & Letters Club.

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Karl Thomson, Creative Director and Managing Partner of Compass360, will be presenting some recent work to the Type Club of Toronto at their first meeting of 2008 on Feb 26th at the Arts & Letters Club.

Karl’s talk, titled “Type-R: Good Design and Racing Cars” promises to be a fun romp through some of Compass360′s recent projects for a wide range of clients, mixed with thoughts on branding and the challenges in bringing a high level of design to motorsports (an area not generally well-regarded for its understanding of the value of good graphic design).

As the one guy in the office whose favorite comment to designers is “what kind of typeface is THAT?”, this promises to be a fun evening of wide-ranging discussion with people who share Karl’s love of good typography.

As usual, they will all be held at the Arts and Letters Club, located at 14 Elm Street, and they begin at 7pm. Unlike past years, they will all be held in the 3rd floor Studio and we will have our own Bar up there. There will also be appetizers and snacks before all the Events. This comes about because there is a new Catering Manager in place and the booking arrangements and rental policies have changed for us. We are very pleased to be able to continue in the same venue and with added bonuses in services available to us. Sadly, however, this also comes with an increased cost. Thus, we have had to raise the cost of admission to all of our Events.

The new cost at the door will be $20 per Person or $10 for Students, while the cost of Annual Membership has been raised to $75 or $45 for Students. Membership allows free admission to all of our Events for the Calendar year and a discount to TypeCon and any other workshops we offer. We will be having more than 6 Events each year, so it will be well worth the cost – even if you miss the odd Event, which we hope you don’t.

The Calendar for Spring/Summer 2008

Tuesday, February 26th, Karl Thomson – Type R: Good design and racing cars
Thursday, March 6th, Peter Zak & Barry Lavender - Get Some Personality: Branding with Custom Type
Tuesday, March 11th, Michael Clark – Taming the Written Form
Thursday, March 27th, Andrew & Matt McCracken – Four Years Deep: The Typography and Design of Doublenaut
Wednesday, April 16th, Ian Brignell – The Drawn Letter
Tuesday, April 29th, Patrick Griffin – Canada Type
Wednesday, May 21st, Speakers’ Night moderated by Dan Brill – From Print to Pixel
Wednesday, July 16th – Sunday, July 20th, TypeCon 2008 in Buffalo, NY

Don’t worry, we will continue to send out emails giving advance reminders of our upcoming Events. However, we hope that you’ll continue to check back here often to see what’s new with The Type Club of Toronto and what’s happening in the much larger world of Type & Design.

Annual Type Club Christmas Party

Monday December 17th, 2007
6:30 – 9:00
The Wolf and Firkin
43 Elm Street