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The Empire Strikes Back

Love letters to the audience

That was Fontstand’s 2022 conference!

Fonts In Use: Colored body text

Jaini: Glimpsing alternate traditions

A matter of taste

For a long time, Eckehart SchumacherGebler was one of the most significant actors in German printing. He built a towering legacy by running several companies, establishing societies, and founding a museum. On December 17th, he passed away, aged 88. The Offizin Haag-Dugulin published an obituary (in German).

Yesterday a new exhibition entitled Italy and Alliance Graphique Internationale. 25 Graphic Designers of the 20th Century opened at the Magazzino delle Idee Trieste. It looks great, and if you can get to Triest, Italy by 6 January 2023, you can see it.

From 30 September through 30 December 2022, you can travel to the storied Bibliothèque Mazarine in Paris for a new exhibition, From Garamont to the Garamond: a typographic journey. There is also a book by Rémi Jimenes to check out, Claude Garamont : typographe de l’humanisme, written in French and published by the Éditions des Cendres.

Join Emily Gravett, the twice Kate-Greenaway-Medal-winning-illustrator, as she chats with her editor Suzanne Carnell, publisher at the children’s book imprint Two Hoots. Emily’s distinctive illustrations and stories are laced with wit and unexpected turns. Best known for now picture book classics like Meerkat Mail and Orange Pear Apple Bear, they’ll talk about Emily’s journey to becoming an illustrator, how they work together, the art of entertaining the reader as well as the young listener, and look at her new book 10 Cats. This 11 October 2022 lecture at St Bride in London is another activity you can attend online or in person.