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December 11, 2006
Paul Shaw
From Milton to Mattresses: The Early Work of W. A. Dwiggins, 1905-1930.
The Grolier Club,
47 East 60th Street, New York, NY
Monday, December 11, 2006 6 pm
W.A. Dwiggins is best known today as a type designer for
Mergenthaler Linotype and a book designer for Alfred A. Knopf, Inc. But before
he was associated with either of those two companies he had already established
a reputation as one of the leading commercial artists in the country. In
recognition of this, the AIGA awarded Dwiggins its gold medal in 1929. His
experience working for jewelers, furniture companies, vacuum cleaner
manufacturers, canned food purveyors, tobacco companies, paper mills and others
led him to coin the phrase “graphic design” in 1922 and formed the basis for
his 1928 book, Layout in Advertising. This talk will focus on Dwiggins’ early
career, looking not only at his advertising work but also his close connection
with Alfred Bartlett and D.B. Updike. Most of the work to be shown will be
unfamiliar.
Paul Shaw is both a graphic designer and a design
historian. As the principal of Paul Shaw / Letter Design he has won awards from
the AIGA, Type Directors Club, Art Directors Club and Print magazine. As a
design historian he has written about written about blackletter type,
Bartolomeo Sanvito, George Salter, Morris Fuller Benton and W.A. Dwiggins. Paul
teaches the history of graphic design and the history of typography at the
School of Visual Arts; and calligraphy at both Parsons School of Design and
University of the Arts. He is currently working on a full-length biography of
W. A. Dwiggins.
NB: This meeting will also include a short
organizational general meeting to re-organize APHA-NY and elect officers.
Free
and open to the public. Contact Nina Schneider at
nschneider@nypl.org for more
information.
October 27, 2007 -- APHA-NY
Poetry into Print Panel and discussion
The Morgan Library and Museum, Educ. Center 225 Madison Ave., New York.
2-4 p.m. Poetry into Print Panel and discussion including: Jerry Kelly, graphic
designer; Mindy Belloff, Intima Press and Studio on the Square; and Alicia
Martinez and Richard Kuczkowski, Poetry in Motion [subway project]. This is the
inaugural meeting of the New York City Book Culture Seminar. Free admission. Tea
and cookies to follow. Reservations are necessary since the seminar is
limited to 44 participants. Reserve by email to
deirdre.stam@liu.edu You will
receive a confirmation of your registration. The New APHA poetry portfolio,
Verse into Type, will be available for viewing. Sponsored by the American
Printing History Association, with assistance from the Bibliographical Society
of America, The Morgan Library and Museum, and the Palmer School of Library and
Information Science of Long Island University. June 2, 2004-- APHA-NY (N.B. Changed date)
Mark Batty, Mark Batty Publisher LLC at
The Grolier Club
47 East 60th Street, New York, NY. 6 p.m., on
The complexities, trials and tribulations of making a new edition of
Joseph Moxon's Mechanick Exercises on the Whole Art of Printing
This edition brings new scholarship to Moxon's Mechanick Exercises
(1683), the first book ever written on printing and printing types. The text,
edited by John Lane, has been extensively annotated and expanded for scholars
and artists in the fields of printing, typography and the graphic arts.
John Lane, a leading bibliographer and historian of type and printing, has based
this edition on that of the Oxford Univesity Press (1962), edited by Herbert
David and Harry Carter.
Before founding Mark Batty Publisher in 2001, Mark Batty was president and CEO
of the International Typeface Corporation, and director of marketing for
Letraset. He is president of the Association Typographique International (ATypI),
and a board member of the Fine Press Book Association. Free and open to the
public. For information about the New York Chapter, contact its president
Lowell Bodger at 212 777-0841 or write to APHA-NY, PO Box 1074, New York, NY
10278.
March 9, 2004 -- APHA-NY
Justin Howes, Type Designer, Typographer and Curator of The Type Museum (London)
"Typographical Monstrosities: The Grotesque in Nelson's England"
The Grolier Club
47 East 60th Street
New York, NY
6 p.m. Free and open to the public.
An account of the fierce debates which greeted the appearance of sansserif letterforms on London posters and store-fronts between 1803 and 1805. On this subject, Howes says "the topic emerged as a result of hunting down Updike's 1918 joke about the 'Fashionable Egyptian Sign-boards' that had quite shocked polite taste in London a century earlier: 'An Irishman describing the Egyptian letters, which at present deface the metropolis, declared that the thin strokes were exactly the same as the thick ones.' One writer (anonymous) said 'Yet let us hope it is merely the folly of the day, a fungi [sic] which will disappear as speedily as it has arisen.' It is through these debates that a modern vocabulary for the discussion of letterforms evolved."
Howes is a British typographer, type designer and historian. His recent book design projects include the British Library's new study of the Dove's Press by Marianne Tidcombe; The Golden Cockerel Press, by Roderick Cave and Sarah Manson; editions of Wycliffe's and Tyndale's New Testaments; and bibliophile editions for the Roxburghe Club.
Fall 2003 Events
Peter Bain will speak on "Film Type," November
13, 6 p.m. at The Grolier Club (47 East 60th Street). During the display
type era in New York, wherein film and photographic media freed type design from
the constraints of metal, designers embraced phototypesetting and made the city
a center of new typeface design. Bain will discuss this period, present
specimens and offer a critique of display typography.
Peter Bain is a typographic designer, and principal of Incipit, a studio whose work includes typeface design, lettering, and typography. His interests include the history of typefaces. In 1998 he co-curated, with Paul Shaw, the exhibition "Blackletter: Type and National Identity," at the Herb Lubin Study Center for Design and Typography at Cooper Union.
In a separate event, Lili
Wronker will present a new video on December 10 at 6:30 p.m., "The Hebrew Alphabet from Antiquity to the
Computer" at The School of Visual Arts, (209 East 23rd Street, between 2nd and 3rd Avenue), Gene Stavis Theatre, 5th Floor (Room 502). The video is described as a visual journey covering letters in stone, manuscripts, paintings,
signs, printing, typography, and calligraphy, incorporating photography by Erich Wronker and videography by Anita Weber and Michael Tiranoff.
Lili Cassel Wronker has been active in the books arts for over sixty years. She has been a book jacket designer, children's book illustrator, and calligrapher. She and her husband Erich were proprietors of a private press, The Ron Press. Her involvement in many organizations includes membership in the Typophiles and founding membership in the Society of Scribes and in APHA.
As usual, both events are free and open to the public. For
information on APHA New York Chapter programs and membership, call Lowell Bodger
at 212 777-0841 or write to APHA/NY, P.O. Box 1074, New York, NY 10276.
June 10, 2003
Mark Batty, Proprietor of
Mark Batty Publisher
"Recent and Forthcoming Volumes"
The Grolier Club,
47 East 60th Street, New York, NY
6:00 PM. Thursday. Free and open to the public.
Contact Lowell Bodger at 212 777-0841
for more information.
Mark Batty will speak about recent and forthcoming
volumes in a series of original collections, anthologies and new editions of works
on graphic design, typography, printing, art, and visual communications. The
books are produced in trade and often in special editions, including ephemeral
items of interest to the specialist and collector.
Books already published or forthcoming include The Well-Made Book: Essays
and Lectures by Daniel Berkeley Updike; Highlights from Matrix: The
Review for Printers and Bibliophiles (2 volumes planned: type and
typography, and book illustration); Gudrun Zapf von Hesse: Bindings,
Handwritten Books, Typefaces. Books in preparation include Contemporary
Newspaper Design;
The Art of the Book in the Twentieth Century: Essays by Jerry Kelly;
Innovation in the Printing Arts: The Treasures and Spirit of St. Bride; and
James Mosley: Selected Essays on Type, Lettering and Calligraphy.
Mark Batty has had a long career in the graphic arts and publishing.
Before founding Mark Batty, Publisher LLC, he was president and CEO of
International Typeface Corporation, and previously the director of
international marketing for Letraset. He is president of the Association
Typographique International (ATypI), and a board member of the Fine Press Book
Association.
Free
and open to the public. Contact Lowell Bodger at 212 777-0841 for more
information.
Also recommended: Aleph-Bet: Torah Concealed /
Torah Revealed. A presentation by Neil H. Yorman, sofer, artist, and master
teacher of Torah. Sponsored by the
Society of Scribes and the Grolier
Club, Wednesday July 9, 6 p.m.
December 11, 2002
Liana Lupas, Curator of the Scripture Collection
The Library of a Single Book
The American Bible Society Library and Archives
1865 Broadway (at West 61st Street), New York, NY.
6:00 PM. Wednesday. Free and open to the public.
Contact Lowell Bodger at 212 777-0841
for more information.
The Library of the American Bible Society includes more
than 55,000 title in over 2,200 languages and dialects, dating from the
thirteenth century to the present. Dr. Lupas will show and discuss a unique
visual history of the art of the printed word.
Liana Lupas is Curator of the Scripture Collection at the American Bible
Society. She is past Professor of Classics at the University of Bucharest,
Romania; at Columbia University; and at Hofstra University
Free
and open to the public. Contact Lowell Bodger at 212 777-0841 for more
information
May 21, 2002
Virginia Smith,
Professor of Art at the City University of New York
"Kabel to Corbu: The Spirit of Modernism Pervading All the Arts"
The Grolier Club, 47 East 60th Street,
New York, NY
6:00 PM. Tuesday. Free and open to the public.
Contact Lowell Bodger at 212 777-0841
for more information.
Virginia Smith with speak on relationships between
typography of the Early Modernist period and design in other fields, including
architecture and haute couture -- material covered in her forthcoming book
Visual Set: Typography and the Design Arts. She will show results of her
recent research in the Imprimerie Nationale in Paris, in the archives of the
Louvre and in private collections, including original photographs of the famous
Art Deco Exposition of 1925 in Paris, and rare period photographs taken when Le
Corbusier's "white boxes" of the 1920's were first built.
Virginia Smith is Professor of Art at the City University of New York, and a
past president of the American Printing History Association. Held at The
Grolier Club, 47 East 60th Street, New York.
Free
and open to the public. Contact Lowell Bodger at 212 777-0841
for more information.
April 26, 2002
David Small, Small Design Firm, Inc., Cambridge, Mass.
"Beyond Printing: Design for Dynamic Display."
The Grolier Club, 47 East 60th Street,
New York, NY
6:00 PM. Friday. Free
and open to the public.
Contact Lowell Bodger at 212 777-0841
for more information.
David Small's work presents a compelling vision of how
computers can redefine the paradigm of printed typography. His experiments ask
fundamental questions about how reading, writing and. expression are evolving
in response to computer technology. The result is a personal vision of the
future of computer-mediated typography.
David Small is Principal of Small Design Firm, Inc., in
Cambridge. His Ph.D. at the MIT Media Labs focused on the display and
manipulation of complex visual information. His thesis, Rethinking the Book,
examined how digital models, in particular the use of 3-D and dynamic type,
will change the way designers approach large bodies of information. Held at The
Grolier Club, 47 East 60th street, New York.
Free
and open to the public.Contact Lowell Bodger at 212 777-0841
for more information.
November 9, 2001
Alastair Johnston
"Alphabets to Order"
The Grolier Club, 47 East 60th Street,
New York, NY
6:00 PM. Friday. Free
and open to the public.
Contact Lowell Bodger at 212 777-0841
for more information.
Typographer and letterpress printer Alastair Johnston
discusses his recent Alphabets to Order: The Literature of Nineteenth
Century Typefounders' Specimens (published by Oak Knoll Press and The
British Library). Johnston surveys the inseparable visual and
literary experiments of the anonymous craftsmen who set English and American
type specimen books during the "typographical explosion" of the 19th
century.
With the arrival of display types, the specimen books
became the "playground of the compositors." Johnston will show
"the controlled chaos" of 19th century typefounders' specimen
books, and discuss some of the "labyrinthine byways" he traveled in
exploring these texts. "Lost in the stacks I encountered poison candy,
vice and superstition. Then found some peculiar books, lost to time, that
revealed the reading habits, politics and whimsies of typestickers of
yore" --some of which may be compared to the later work of concrete poets
and dadaists.
Alastair Johnston is a typographer and letterpress
printer at the Poltroon Press in Oakland, California, which he founded in 1975
in partnership with Frances Butler. He is well known as a historian, lecturer,
and author on books and type, and edits The Ampersand, published by the
Pacific Center for Book Arts.
This event is also sponsored by The Type Directors Club www.tdc.org
and Oak Knoll Press www.oakknoll.com.
Free
and open to the public. Contact Lowell Bodger at 212 777-0841
for more information.
October 11, 2001
John Randle, The Whittington Press
"Papers and Prospectuses."
The Grolier Club, 47 East 60th Street,
New York, NY
6:00 PM. Thursday. Free
and open to the public.
Contact Lowell Bodger at 212 777-0841
for more information.
John Randle, proprietor of The Whittington Press, will
show and discuss two unique publications of his press:
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Fine Papers at the Oxford University Press. A
descriptive catalogue, with text by John Bidwell, assembled in 1999 to
present samples from among 20,000 sheets of hand- and mould-made papers
dating from 1890, forgotten leftovers rediscovered and bought from Oxford
University Press in 1986.This book remains the most comprehensive account of
British hand-papermaking to date.
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British Private Press Prospectuses, 1891-2001.
An account by David Butcher of the prospectuses issued by British private
presses, both famous and less well-known, that traces the development of the
private press during the twentieth century. This work contained a portfolio
of rare, original prospectuses from a collection assembled by The
Whittington Press over the past fifteen years.
The Whittington Press, founded in 1971 by John and Rosalind Randle, will have published by early 2002 some 160 titles, including
belles lettres, collections of wood-engravings and other imagery,
bibliographies, type specimens, and the internationally acclaimed annual review
for printers and bibliophiles, Matrix, now in its twenty-first year.
Free
and open to the public. Contact Lowell Bodger at 212 777-0841
for more information. (The lecture will also be given in Providence,
RI, on October 7.)
December 15, 2000
Jerry Kelly
Gallery talk and reception for the exhibition "The Fine Art of Letters:
The Work of Hermann Zapf"
The Grolier Club, New York.
47 East 60th Street
6:00 P.M. Co-Sponsored by The Grolier Club. Free and open to the public.
Hermann Zapf, recognized as one of the foremost type designers,
calligraphers, and typographers of the twentieth century, has designed more
than 200 typefaces, including Palatino, Optima, Zapf Chancery and
Michelangelo. His manual of calligraphic styles, Pen and Graver (1949),
set a standard for several generations of calligraphers; his calligraphic
broadsides, book jackets, and limited edition silk-screen prints have been
reproduced widely. Jerry Kelly is a designer, printer and calligrapher working
independently in New York, and a partner in the Kelly/Winterton Press. He has
also been a designer/representative of the Stinehour Press, and The Press of
A. Colish. He has taught at Pratt Institute, Parsons School of Design, and
Queens College. He is author of articles in journals including AIGA Journal,
Matrix, Fine Print, Calligraphy Review, and Bookways.
He also co-authored with Martin Hutner, A
Century for the Century (1999).
Contact Lowell Bodger at 212 777-0841 for more
information. Free and open to the public.
Read the exhibition
description.
Learn about the Grolier Club of New York.
November 13, 2000
Jean Bourges
"Odyssey of the Printable Palette"
The Grolier Club, New York.
47 East 60th Street
6:00 P.M. Free and open to the public.
The idea of enabling artists to prepare color work in a more readily
printable form has been a century in realization. Jean Bourges will discuss
the science and art of "getting color to the paper," color choice,
specification of pigments, inks, paints, and other colorants. Her father
Albert Bourges, at first an engraver, wanting to involve artists in
platemaking and resolve the disparate viewpoints of artists, invented the
Bourges Color Notation System, and later Bourges Artists' Shading Sheets. Jean
Bourges is the author of Color Bytes (1997). Before joining her father
to start a new company, she worked as an engineering draftsperson in the U.S.
Army Map Service.
Contact Lowell Bodger at 212 777-0841 for more
information. Free and open to the public.
March and April 2000 -- Mosley
Lectures
Two Lectures by James Mosley.
The Grolier Club, New York.
47 East 60th Street
March 31 6 p.m.: "The Decorated Types of Louis Jean Pouchée."
April 3 6 p.m.: "Primitive Types: The Sans-Serif Letter from
Neo-classical Icon to Tool of commerce." More
information. Contact Lowell Bodger at 212 777-0841 for more
information. Free and open to the public.
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