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  • Justin Howes Memorial Lecture

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    Justin Howes Memorial Lecture

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    May 11 2023 19:00 - 20:30
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    Justin Howes Memorial Lecture

    Shift Happens: The abridged history of having fun \/\/ith keyboards

    With Marcin Wichary

    Date: Thursday 11 May 2023

    Location: St Bride Foundation and Online via Zoom

    In-person times (BST):
    Doors/bar:
    6.15pm
    Talk starts: 7pm
    Talk ends: 8.30pm
    In-person tickets: £8, £10, £12

    Online time (BST): 7.00–8.30pm
    Online tickets: £4.50, £6.50
    Please note: you will be emailed the Zoom link for the talk at 6pm GMT on the day of the talk.

    Typing keyboards and QWERTY have existed for almost exactly 150 years, and for almost exactly 150 years they have been used not just as data entry devices and literary partners, but also as instruments of creative expression. We’ll solve a typewriter mystery, learn the basics of artyping, chat with Eliza and her (its?) friends, figure out the difference between ANSI, ASCII, and PETSCII art, meet the extended family of the Emoji Sheriff – and see what we can learn about ourselves and our relationship with machines in the process.

    Marcin Wichary is a design manager at Figma and the author of Shift Happens, the upcoming book about the history of keyboards. He previously worked as a designer at Medium, Google, and Code for America.

    shifthappens.site

    aresluna.org

    Justin Howes died on 21 February 2005. A good friend to the St Bride Library and the wider typographic community in 1999 he founded the original Friends of St Bride Library with James Mosley. He was not only a distinguished scholar, whose wide-ranging research was making an important contribution to our understanding of the types and lettering of the past, but he also put that scholarship into practice, learning to cast type by hand and to demonstrate to others the techniques of a secretive and mysterious trade. This annual lecture series is given in his memory.

    We would like to thank Google and The Wynkyn de Worde Society Charitable Trust for their generosity in sponsoring this lecture.

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    Established in 1891 with a clear social and cultural purpose, St Bride Foundation is one of London’s hidden gems.

    Housed in a beautiful Grade II listed Victorian building, St Bride Foundation was originally set up to serve the burgeoning print and publishing trade of nearby Fleet Street, and is now finding a new contemporary audience of designers, printmakers and typographers who come to enjoy a regular programme of design events and workshops.

    Many thousands of books, printing-related periodicals and physical objects are at the heart of St Bride Library. Volumes on the history of printing, typography, newspaper design and paper-making jostle for space alongside one of the world’s largest and most significant collections of type specimens. The printed, written, carved and cast word may be found at St Bride in its myriad forms. Architectural lettering and examples of applied typography in many media, together with substantial collections of steel punches and casting matrices for metal types are also held in this eclectic collection. The Reading Room is open to visitors twice a month and on other days by appointment. Although we operate on a cost-neutral basis, it is necessary to charge for some of our services. Details are available by emailing the library team at library@sbf.org.uk.

    St Bride retains many of its original features, including the baths, laundry, printing rooms and library. As part of the Foundation’s original mission to provide for the community, many of the building’s unique and characterful spaces are available to hire whether for meetings, weddings or classes.

    St Bride also houses the popular Bridewell Theatre, and Bridewell Bar (once the laundry), and hosts a year-round programme of plays, comedy, music and exhibitions.

    With some 65,000 visitors a year St Bride Foundation is a major London hub for the creative arts in London. We look forward to welcoming you soon.

    Venue

    St Bride Foundation, 14 Bride Ln, EC4Y 8EQ London

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