TDi 2024 | Practice masterclass and research working seminar
27 February 2024Announcing 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 2023At 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 2023Healthcare 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 2023Sue 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
Freeing Liberty through information design
13 July 2022This 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 20229 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 2022Ed 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 2022This 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 2019We 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
Postgraduate research communication success
20 June 2019Congratulations 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 2019An exhibition exploring the design process of the most significant twentieth-century Persian newspaper types. Read more
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 2018Alison 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 2018Vaibhav 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 2018A 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 2018Our 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