Structural differences between the Persian (top) and Urdu (bottom) flavours of the Nasta’liq style

TDi 2024 | Practice masterclass and research working seminar

27 February 2024

Announcing the 2024 intensive summer course in typeface design: one week of a multiscript masterclass, and one week of a research-focused working seminar. Read more… Read more

Testing beyond Covid: Our point of use instructions at IIID Vision Plus 2023

6 June 2023

At the 2023 IIID Vision Plus conference, Josefina gave a presentation about her, Sue Walker, and Al Edwards’s work on the project ‘Information Design for… Read more

Design that cares? – IIID Vision Plus Conference 2023

6 June 2023

Healthcare was the theme for the 2023 IIID Vision Plus Conference, held in the Design Forum in Vienna. Rachel and Josefina gave a joint talk… Read more

User-friendly point-of-use instructions for home use diagnostic tests: guidance and tools

16 January 2023

Sue Walker and Josefina Bravo have produced guidance in the form of a toolkit and a dataset for the design of instructions to support home… Read more

Rachel Warner and Emily Allbon presenting with presentation slide in the background

Freeing Liberty through information design

13 July 2022

This July, Rachel Warner and Emily Allbon presented their project ‘Freeing Liberty through information design’ at the International Conference on Typography and Visual Communication (ICTVC). Their… Read more

Looking at women looking at themselves being looked at

22 June 2022

9 June – 9 September 2022 This exhibition, now open in the Department of Typography & Graphic Communication, explores the concept of the male gaze… Read more

Ed Fella: Exit Level Design, 1985–2012

1 February 2022

Ed Fella: Exit Level Design, 1985–2012, an exhibition in the Department of Typography & Graphic Communication surveying the experimental graphic practice of the American designer,… Read more

Experimental publishing and new archival initiatives

13 January 2022

This online event on 27 January at 5pm is free and open to all. Search ‘Experimental publishing reading 2022’ for details Read more

13 July: a celebration of letterforms and ephemera

3 July 2019

We are holding a one-day symposium on Saturday 13 July, where world-class experts in design research, teaching, and practice will discuss ways of positioning ephemera… Read more

Bodil Mostad Olsen and research poster

Postgraduate research communication success

20 June 2019

Congratulations to postgraduate researcher Bodil Mostad Olsen who has won the University’s prize for research communication in a poster competition, held as part of the… Read more

20th-century Persian newspaper types: investigating the design process

13 March 2019

An exhibition exploring the design process of the most significant twentieth-century Persian newspaper types. Read more

Engineering template for Tamil characters

Facing the world

3 January 2019

‘Facing the World: Towards a Global History of Non-Latin Type Design’ is a special issue of Philological Encounters, edited by Thomas S. Mullaney of Stanford… Read more

Research introductions

14 November 2018

Alison Black, Jeanne Louise Moys, Sue Walker, Gerry Leonidas and Eric Kindel showcased a range of research projects, past and present, to give Part 1… Read more

One letter at a time

1 November 2018

Vaibhav Singh’s exhibition on non-keyboard ‘index’ typewriters ran in the Department in late 2018. Check out all the details at Contextual Alternate. Read more

Science communication for children

1 October 2018

A new AHRC-funded project begins today. Transforming science for young people: Marie Neurath and Isotype books for children aims to find new audiences for the… Read more

Activity in Antwerp

17 September 2018

Our use of the Lettering, Printing and Graphic Design Collections in the Typography Department, and our distinctive approach to collections-based research, was exceptionally well demonstrated… Read more