In celebration of the ‘Bad Type Conference’, The Friends of St Bride Printing Library are inviting all typo-voyeurs to submit photographs of very bad type they have discovered.
Bad type may be been found in any environment—shop fascias, on the side of buses, in the rear windows of cars, on TV, or in magazines, newspapers or books; and produced by any process—printed, engraved, painted or airbrushed.
All submissions will be exhibited at the Bad Type Conference and judged by a specially chosen panel of experts who will assess the entries on grounds of content and composition, and not the quality of the photography. The winners will be awarded one of a number of glittering prizes.
You could gain even more fame when the BBC includes this ‘Bad Type’ competition in their upcoming documentary on typography!
Photographs of bad type can be sent as medium resolution digital images to: [email protected]. Please mark your email ‘Bad Type Competition’ and include your name, address and the place where the photograph was taken. The official closing date is 1 October 2004 but if you want it on the BBC program, get it in by 15 August!
Where does one find more information about this BBC documentary on typography? Is there any hope that it will make it beyond BBC Four?
we don’t know much more about it at the moment. i’ll certainly post more information after we meet with them in a couple week’s time.
Cool. Thanks!