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News: Final list of words selected for #LDF13

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Announcing the final list of creative words selected for #TypeTasting with #LDF13 at the V&A: Click here to see the full list.

Come along to see the full collection of words for Type Tasting with the London Design Festival 2013 at the V&A from 14-19 September in the Design Studio of the Sackler Centre at the V&A.

You can still take part and create a word at the drop in Type Tasting workshops in the Design Studio at the Sackler Centre of the V&A between 10am-5pm on 14 & 15 September. No prior booking needed just come along and join in.

‘Beanfeast’ by Sam Roberts

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‘Beanfeast’ by Sam Roberts

Roberts’ work photographing and researching the fading remains of advertising painted on walls (a.k.a. ghostsigns) often leads to interesting questions, such as ‘what is a beanfeast?’. The full text of this Highgate sign is ‘Catering for beanfeasts, parties & clubs’. Roberts goes on to explain that “However, beans in this case aren’t the baked variety, but the accounting type. A beanfeast is a party thrown by an employer if the end-of-year ‘bean counting’ has revealed a positive set of accounts. The modern equivalent would be the Christmas party and the deployment of ‘beans’ to pay for it.”

‘Ours’ by Oli Frape

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‘Ours’ by Oli Frape

Oli Frape is a hand-letterer and illustrator based in London. Hand-drawn type is the primary focus of his practice and is integral to his overall style and approach. His piece for Type Tasting is a combination of hand-drawn and painted.

NEWSFLASH: Frape will be documenting the Type Tasting workshop day live in hand-drawn lettering at the V&A on Saturday 14th September.

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‘Cheers’ by Qian Yuan

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‘Cheers’ by Qian Yuan

Big thank you to Qian Yuan who’s been helping out in the Type Tasting studio this week. She’s been very patient, creative, and has taken all the strange requests thrown at her in her stride.

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‘Connected’ by Becky Chilcott and Sarah Chilcott

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“Growing up with a Mum who is constantly knitting, I developed an aversion to having a go myself early on. When you’re a teenager who likes their sleep, it’s not the best sound to wake up to at 7.30am every Saturday morning… she doesn’t use quiet knitting needles as you’d imagine but a knitting machine that is around 1 metre long and is blooming noisy (although I was always attired in custom knits that were often made on demand).”

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#LDF13 ‘Multitudinal’ by Hedy Parry-Davies

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Multitudinal by Hedy Parry-Davies

Parry-Davies’ piece for Type Tasting explores the ways we experience the River Thames through a combination of the maps we use to navigate our way around the city—via the Underground, cycling, walking and driving. The different maps show the overview of the city both present and past, and also link us to the personal experience of existing within it. “Maps express a wide range and detail of information efficiently and in a form which I find beautiful. My tessellated origami enabled me to inter-weave all these elements to create an artwork.”

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#LDF13 ‘Exotic’ by Lizzie Hobbs

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#LDF13 ‘Exotic’ by Lizzie Hobbs

Hobbs has designed the word ‘Exotic’ “to reflect some of the cultures which are thriving in London. Each letter has been designed to reflect the script from these cultural languages and then filled in with patterns—Islamic, Middle Eastern and South Asian. The piece has been drawn freehand. ‘E’, ‘O’ and ‘I’ reflect Persian, Urdu and Arabic. ‘X’, ‘T’ and ‘C’ reflect Bengali, Tamil and Hindi.”

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Blog: Typographic explosion

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Blog: Typographic explosion

The Type Tasting studio is full of creative typography as we begin to photograph, select and curate the final display for Type Tasting with the London Design Festival. It’s an exciting collection in such a range of styles and mediums, what connects all the pieces is the amount of thought and hands on creativity that’s gone into them.

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#LDF13 ‘Disenchanted’ by Siro

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#LDF13 ‘Disenchanted’ by Siro Carraro

Artist Siro Carraro grew up in Italy, studied art in London and works from his sunny North London studio which is an Aladdin’s Cave of large canvasses and colour. He describes himself as “A creator of dreams and a collector of images, that run freely from my mind in and out of my canvases.”

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