Global Goals Exhibition
31 May 2024Thursday 9 May marked the opening of the exhibition designed by Aaron James and Olivia Moors for the Global Goals campaign. Displayed in the University… Read more
Promoting the Sustainable Development Goals
6 February 2024Spring Term 2024 An exhibition by second-year students in the Department of Typography & Graphic Communication The work featured in this exhibition are posters designed… Read more
Way of type – Evolution of Chinese typeforms
19 May 202317 April – 21 July 2023 An exhibition in the Department charting the development of Chinese type and type-making technologies. Chinese typeforms are the visual… 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
>A–Z: Degree Show 2020
28 May 2020On 11 June we are launching an online showcase of our students’ work. To stay updated, please fill in the form at https://forms.gle/aHAr1iQwZEdbrEpr5 . You… Read more
Real Jobs: Celebrating over five decades of professional design practice on our undergraduate course
17 June 2019Alongside our degree show opening last week, we also launched a new exhibition celebrating our ‘Real Jobs’ scheme. Real Jobs has been our flagship professional experience… Read more
—brace the space: Typography degree show 2019
17 June 2019We’d like to thank everyone who attended the private view of our degree show on Thursday evening. Our graduating class of BA Graphic Communication and… 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
Armchair travel: exploring Central Asia in books
6 February 2019An exhibition of books about exploring, trekking and travelling in Central Asia, next to the Reading Room. Read more
Richard Bird: National Theatre posters
6 February 2019Richard Bird (1948–1993) worked under Ken Briggs at the National Theatre 1972 to 1975. In 1975 Bird became resident head of graphics at the theatre’s… 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
Letterpress: possibilities & practice
6 June 2018Due to popular demand, now on until 20 July 2018 We’re pleased to announce the continuation of our exhibition, ‘Letterpress: possibilities & practice’, until Friday 20… Read more
Letterpress: possibilities & practice
16 March 2018An exhibition in the Department Until 28 April 2018 Letterpress printing has never lacked dedicated practitioners since its decline as a mainstream commercial printing process.… Read more
Emigre magazine: design, discourse and authorship
7 June 2017An exhibition in the Department 12 June – 14 July 2017 Emigre magazine, co-founded in California in 1984 by Rudy VanderLans, was a provocative… Read more
Have you ever really looked at…? A. M. Cassandre
23 March 2017In 1994, Richard Hollis wrote: ‘Cassandre’s “Étoile du Nord” railway poster has become a paradigm of the Good Design to which we all aspire. But… Read more
Isotype at the Science Museum
8 December 2016The Department has made a long-term loan of Isotype work to the Science Museum, London. The loans are featured in the museum’s new Mathematics gallery,… Read more
Material histories: Centennial Exhibition stencil
28 October 2016In the last in a series of posts about artefacts in the exhibition ‘Material histories’ (now on in the Department), Eric Kindel tells the story of a stencil… Read more
Material histories: Tschichold & ampersands
27 October 2016In the third in a series of posts about artefacts in the exhibition ‘Material histories’ (now on in the Department), Rob Banham tells the story of Jan Tschichold’s… Read more
Material histories: crossed letters
26 October 2016In the second in a series of posts about artefacts in the exhibition ‘Material histories’ (now on in the Department), Sue Walker tells the story of ‘crossed letters’. … Read more
Material histories: Emil Hübner
25 October 2016‘Material histories’ is a small exhibition now on display in the Department. It presents graphic communication artefacts with a story to tell. The stories – the material… Read more
‘Time(less) signs’ at Austrian Cultural Forum London
14 October 2014The exhibition ‘Time(less) signs: Otto Neurath and reflections in Austrian Contemporary Art’ runs from 30 September 2014 to 9 January 2015, at the Austrian Cultural… Read more
A very special ATypI
23 September 2014As students were settling into their Halls for Welcome Week and the start of the new academic year, Sunday marked the return of several members… Read more
Exhibiting Aspen
20 June 2013Aspen, described in the 1960s as ‘the first three-dimensional magazine’, was produced in California and published in New York on an irregular schedule from 1965… Read more
Typewriters: ‘new technology’ for everyday use
29 October 2012The wonderful exhibition of typewriters and related ephemera currently on display in Typography’s exhibition area made me look again through my collection of early… Read more