A great photo of the audience at the Type Tasting talk at the V&A with the London Design Festival at the weekend. More photos and results to come soon…
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Type Tasting at the London Design Festival
Join graphic designer Sarah Hyndman for an interactive Type Tasting talk full of demonstrations about how typefaces influence what we read.
14th September 2014
2-3.30pm
Seminar Room 3, Learning Centre, (Level 3)
V&A
London
A year ago with the LDF at the V&A
For the London Design Festival a year ago, Type Tasting posed the question “what’s your creative London?”. Stunning words were created for the exhibition by a wide range of designers and non designers of all ages and from around the world. We were delighted that Ralph Steadman and Alan Kitching created words in their own inimitable styles. All of the words were displayed at the V&A.
Welsh Type Road Trip
Printmaker Naomi Midgley stopped in the market town of Welshpool ‘where Wales begins‘ on a recent drive from Birmingham to Barmouth, she says “Welshpool doesn’t disappoint when type hunting, this corner shop sign has been preserved and still operates as a corner shop”. Here are a selection of her finds and her observations.
Being Human
This is a selection of inventive reinterpretations of words by students on the HND Graphic Design course at Bedford College. Tutor Jeffrey Tribe explains “students were challenge to create a unique an expressive typeface as a cover for an imaginary Dutch arts magazine”.
The different treatments of the word ‘human’ alter its meaning interestingly, adding depth, twists or make a comment about human behaviour. What do the reinterpretations mean to you?
Wish we were there
Kerry Rankine from Growing Communities went on a family trip to Como, Northern Italy, and shared her holiday photos.
“Smile”
A postcard arrived at the Type Tasting studio in London from Martina Flor in Berlin as part of her Letter Collections project. Thank you Martina, it’s now sitting cheerily in the studio and we’re sure it made a few postmen smile on its journey.
Talk at the V&A for the London Design Festival
Join graphic designer Sarah Hyndman for an interactive talk full of demonstrations about how typefaces influence what we read.
14th September 2014
2-3.30pm
Seminar Room 3, Learning Centre, (Level 3)
V&A
London
Planning ahead to 2015
Thinking ahead to 2015 this is my proposal below to take Type Tasting to SXSW again next year. This time it’s part of the ‘panel picker’ system which everybody gets to vote for (there’s a link at the bottom).
Deckchair Alphabet
Sarah Hyndman’s Deckchair Alphabet features in the new book by Steven Heller (New York Times art director for 33 years) and Gail Anderson (former art director of Rolling Stone). In The Typographic Universe, they explore ‘the alphabet of everyday things’: letters found in unexpected places such as flowers, train sets, human bones or deckchiars. ‘Gail gave the assignment to her class and the rest fell into place,’ Heller says, adding that letters emerge in surprising places ‘almost as frequently as faces’. Anderson says: ‘I had my own burgeoning collection of found letters, so it was interesting to connect with others who were as intensely obsessed as me’
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