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  • The Justin Howes Memorial Lecture: The Commanded Letter: writing, engraving, and typography in 18th Century London

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    The Justin Howes Memorial Lecture: The Commanded Letter: writing, engraving, and typography in 18th Century London

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    May 19 2020 19:00 - 20:30
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    John Hudson

    19 May 2020

    7.00–8.30pm (Doors 6.30pm)

    Tickets: £8–12.50

    Between the 1690s and mid-18th Century, English writing masters, mostly based in London in the environs of St Paul's Cathedral, collaborated with engravers to define a rich textual aesthetic parallel to and in tension with contemporary trends in typography. This aesthetic commanded, among other things, the invention of a new style of ‘print’ letter: a neoclassical roman that would not find typographic expression until John Baskerville’s types of the 1750s. By that date, this ‘English Roman’ had become a standard part of a writing master’s repertoire, explored in a wide range of weights, sizes, and constructions. In this heavily illustrated talk, John Hudson looks at the genesis of this style, and the aesthetic, social, and technological contexts in which it developed.

    John Hudson designs typefaces and makes fonts. As co-founder of Tiro Typeworks Ltd., a digital foundry specialising in custom font solutions for multilingual publishing and computing, he has been responsible for or has collaborated on type designs for Arabic, Bengali, Cyrillic, Devanagari, Ethiopic, Greek, Gurmukhi, Hebrew, Latin, Odia, Sinhala, Telugu, Thai, and other scripts. Tiro’s clients include software companies such as Adobe and Microsoft, and scholarly publishers such as Brill and Harvard University Press, and the STIpub consortium of scientific publishers.

    www.tiro.com

    twitter.com/TiroTypeworks

    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.


    Ticket is non-refundable, however you are welcome to offer your ticket to another person or reschedule the date of your visit. Please contact events@sbf.org.uk to change the date/event of your booking at least 7 days prior to the event date.


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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.

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

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