Typography Workshop in Room 202 all day Wednesday Posted by: brian

The Typography Workshop is open to all the year groups on

Wednesday 24th Februrary from 10:00 am to 4:00 pm.

This will be run by Brian Whitehead and assisted by Vaughan Oliver.

Designing and creating your own typefaces for ultimate use in the computer.

Bring in all your typo projects and lets be creative and productive.

“Coming Together” Font Aid IV Posted by: sal

In response to the devastating 2010 earthquake in Haiti, the Society of Typographic Aficionados issued a call to action to the typographic and design communities to participate in Font Aid IV. The result is “Coming Together,” an OpenType font that contains more than 400 ampersand glyphs designed by participants from around the world that has just been released this week.

All proceeds from the sale of the $20 typeface go to Doctors Without Borders , in support of continuing relief efforts in Haiti. Veer is amongst the web sites distributing Coming Together. You can see the font, buy it  and read about it on the Veer blog

Bad Typography Posted by: sal

There is some really interesting bad typography in the environment. I found these at the Elephant & Castle Underpass. What can you find?

David Trott – 7pm on 18th February at JWT Posted by: sal

The legendary creative Dave Trott, the man responsible for some of the most memorable ads of the last 30 years. His work has impacted the UK culture many times. Founder of GGT in 1980, BST in 1990 and now CST Advertising. Also the founder of D&AD Advertising Workshops, and author of every ad grad’s favourite book, “How to get your first job in advertising” Dave has a new book out. It’s called CREATIVE MISCHIEF. The Sunday Times says it’s “genius”.

Visit the Typographic Circle at
http://www.typocircle.com
for more information and to purchase tickets for events.

There are three tiers of membership and Student membership (current full-time student or graduate within the last year*) is £15 (currently half-price at £7.50 – because the membership year runs April to March therefore anyone joining after September gets half price).

Circular Magazine has also just been published (designed by Domenic Lippa of Pentagram) so you would get a copy if you join now.

Reschedule: InDesign – WORKSHOP Nº5 for a week Posted by: brian

The Workshop has been postponed because of the Ken Garland talk – we think It would be advisable to attend Ken’s talk on Wednesday 25th November.

He is a significant speaker giving a one off talk – InDesign can be taught on the following Wednesday 2nd December.

InDesign – WORKSHOP Nº5 – to run a week later
InDesign & Photoshop: Character Stylesheets, Graphic Stylesheets and layout discussion

Wednesday 2nd December 2009
Two sessions on the same subject – Preparing layouts.

AM – 10:30 am to 12:30 pm
PM – 02:00 am to 04:00 pm

Room 205 (24 machines available)
Open to all levels GD & GDNM & Year Zero

First come first serve – please sign-up on the blog in the comments section below:

Michael Wolff doing a Typographic Circle talk Posted by: sal

7.00pm 3rd December 209 at JWT, 1 Knightsbridge Green

http://www.typocircle.com/

Michael Wolff, a co – founder of one of the world’s most iconic design companies – Wolff Olins – is recognized today as a leader in thinking on brands. He lectures in many countries including Brazil, Mexico, Singapore and the USA. He’s Patron of the Inclusive Design Challenge with the Helen Hamlyn Centre at the RCA (Royal College of Art), a member of the Government sponsored Design and Technology Alliance against crime, Chairman of the Legible London initiative with Transport for London and a visiting Professor at the University of the Arts in London and a Senior Fellow of the RCA He’s a former President of both the D&AD (Design and Art Directors Association) and CSD Chartered Society of Designers.

Michael now runs Michael Wolff & Company in London. Most recent clients are 3i, Mothercare and Ministry of Sound in the UK – Citibank and Citigroup in the US – and a new bank in Russia.

“I’ve never stuck to one view of what is good in design. My personal goals have always been: to help organizations to express themselves, in their own particular way, for the benefit of anyone with whom they’re involved. And do this in a way that brings value to everyone and to the world that we all share.”

What do you want from your Type Club? Posted by: sal

It would be useful to have suggestions on what you would like to have from ETC (Epsom Type Club). Please post them here for discussion.