Non-Latin Type Design

Conference with Reading University Typography Department

Conference Venues :

St Bride Printing Library
Bride Lane (off Fleet Street)
London EC4Y 8EQ

Reading University

Conference Dates :

Tuesday –Wednesday 18–19 September 2007

The Conference :

The St Bride Library and the Department of Typography, University of Reading are collaborating on a two-day conference on non-Latin typeface design. The conference will be on Tuesday 18 and Wednesday 19 September 2007, and will comprise a day of talks at St Bride Library, London, and a day of hands-on sessions at the Department of Typography, Reading.

Speakers at the conference at St Bride include Graham Shaw (Head of Asia, Pacific and Africa Collections at the British Library), Victor Gaultney, Thomas Phinney, Simon Prais, Nigel Roche, Mamoun Sakkal, and Maxim Zhukov.

The hands-on day at Reading includes sessions working with original material from collections of both institutions. Sessions will be conducted by: Dr Martin Dodds (Principal Examiner for Urdu, Cambridge International Exams), Jo de Baerdemaeker, Gerry Leonidas, Thomas Milo, and Dr Fiona Ross. As sessions at Reading involve working with original artefacts, places will be limited to 30 persons.

The twin events will be accompanied by substantial exhibitions on the theme of the conference from the collections of both institutions. A lot of this material has rarely been seen before, and certainly not in this concentrated manner. The gems include original drawings for several reference non-Latin typefaces. The exhibitions will be curated by Fiona Ross and Rathna Ramanathan.

Registration :

Registration fees are £60 for the Tuesday only, and £120 for both days; student fees are £40 and £80 respectively.

More Info :

St Bride Library
Bride Lane (off Fleet Street)
London EC4Y 8EQ

T : 020 7353 4660
W : http://www.stbride.org