“They refuse to keep quiet”
“They refuse to keep quiet”
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TICKETS WILL BE ON SALE UNTIL 5PM ON TUESDAY 28 OCTOBER. IF YOU WOULD LIKE TO ATTEND IN-PERSON AFTER THE BOOKING LINK HAS CLOSED, THEY WILL BE AVAILABLE FOR SALE ON THE DOOR.
“They refuse to keep quiet”
Thirty Years of the Women’s Design + Research Unit (WD+RU)
Beatrice Warde Memorial Lecture
With Teal Triggs and Siân Cook
Date: Tuesday 28 October 2025
Location: St Bride Foundation and Online via Zoom
In-person times (GMT):
Doors/bar: 6.15pm
Talk starts: 7pm
Talk ends: 8.30pm
In-person tickets: £9, £12, £14
Please note: Ticket sales end at 4pm on the day of the talk. If available, tickets purchased in-person on the door will cost £16 per person. Please do call or email us to check if an event has any tickets left as you may not be admitted if we have sold out.
Online time (GMT): 7.00–8.30pm
Online tickets: £6, £8
Please note: Ticket sales end at 4pm on the day of the talk. You will be emailed the Zoom link for the talk at 6pm on the day of the talk. We will also send the link to all in-person ticket holders in case they are unable to attend and would like to join virtually.
Within the contemporary context of social, political, and economic uncertainty the importance of having a voice for change is increasingly urgent and necessary. Thirty years ago, the Women’s Design + Research Unit (WD+RU) was formed in response to the male-dominated design and typographic industry. The voices of women working in the field were noticeably absent from the profession and in the emerging canons of graphic design history.
As educational activists, WD+RU sought to raise awareness of women working in visual communication through activist means such as posters, research projects, actions and events. WD+RU has never operated as a design studio; rather as a collective based on feminist principles (including care and collaboration, in tandem with undertaking projects that advocate for design and social responsibility). In their talk, Siân Cook and Teal Triggs, reflect critically upon their extensive archive of work from the 1990s to the present day, and ask the question: what comes next?
Siân Cook is a Graphic Designer and a Senior Lecturer at London College of Communication. She has a background in design for the music industry but has run her own design practice as no.star since 1994, working for a variety of arts and charity clients. Her research interests focus on the HIV and AIDS epidemic – a sector in which she has volunteered and designed for over 30 years. Siân has built a substantial archive of UK HIV and AIDS graphic ephemera, made it available online (www.hivgraphiccommunication.com) and continues to explore ways of disseminating and using the collection.
Teal Triggs is Professor of Graphic Design and PGR Lead, School of Communication, Royal College of Art. She is an educator, historian, and writer whose research focuses primarily on graphic design history, criticism, and design research methods. She is author of Fanzines and co-editor of The Graphic Design Reader. Her current collaboration ‘Graphic Design Histories for Creative Dissent: Archiving and Ethical Challenges’ (with partners in Brazil, South Africa and the UK) is a three-year funded Trans-Atlantic Platform project. Triggs is co-editor of Design Issues (MIT Press), and Principal Fellow of the Higher Education Academy.
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Organiser
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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“They refuse to keep quiet”
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