St Bride Conference 2003

Details of the second annual Friends of St Bride Conference, "Hidden Typography", on 20 + 21 October 2003 are now available. The 2003 Conference has a terrific lineup of 22 speakers from around the world talking on a wide range of typographic topics.

The event includes the annual Beatrice Warde memorial lecture, which this year will be delivered by Lawrence Wallis in St Bride Church.

In addition to the formal proceedings there will be exhibitions of lettering by members of the South London Lettering Association and a display of printmaking by students of Morley College, London. All material is for sale as well as display.

There will be other chances to spend your money with a number of stallholders selling a range of goods, including specialist books.

The conference will host a reception on 20 October and delegates will be sent home with a goody-bag par excellence!

Comments

the conference sounds great, but since I can't make it, let me just make one tangential comment. forgive me if this observation is a bit delayed, but is that logo composed in Arial!?

plain*clothes | Apr 10, 2003 08:55 AM

we're in the process of redesigning and reorganizing the website, including the logo. the delay in doing this is due to the fact that those of us volunteering our time at the library are a bit exhausted from the battles to keep the library from permanently closing!

if you'd like to help, please contact stbride2003@hotmail.org

shelley | Apr 10, 2003 02:36 PM

I'd love to hear this:

Dead letters—Focusing on a collection of coffin plates, Martin will talk about the traditions of nineteenth-century funerals. He will show gloriously decorative items of printed ephemera associated with death, as well as the rich letterforms engraved, etched and cut onto coffin plates and discuss how they inspired or reflected typefaces of the period.

Amanda | Apr 10, 2003 03:15 PM

'Hidden Typography' is an excellent conference theme. If I were not so busy this year with the ATypI conference, I would have submitted a presentation proposal, probably about the printing of St Edmund Campion's Rationes Decem. This was literally hidden typography: the book was printed on a secret press, smuggled into England, while the Elizabethan pursuivants hunted for Campion and his companions. Eventually, almost all of them were captured and executed; only the printer, Robert Persons SJ, seems to have escaped.

Stories about extraordinary resourcefulness in printing under desperate circumstances fascinate me. I'm currently reading Martin Gilber's The Righteous, which includes accounts of the forging of papers for Jews in German-occupied territories during WWII.

John Hudson | Apr 10, 2003 05:14 PM

Shelley said...
those of us volunteering our time at the library are a bit exhausted from the battles to keep the library from permanently closing!

point well taken. sorry if I offended any such honorable volunteers, I was just surprised by the association of your great institution and Arial!

if you’d like to help, please contact stbride2003@hotmail.org

I'd love to actually, but given that my exhaustion is probably equivalent to yours, I guess I'm in the same helpless position. besides, I'd hate to take the job away from someone who's actually been there!

plain*clothes | Apr 11, 2003 12:43 PM