Type Tuesday: Light Fantastic
Type Tuesday: Light Fantastic
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Date
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Type Tuesday: Light Fantastic
With Kate Dawkins and Michael Collins
St Bride Foundation,
Tuesday 25 November 2025
Bridewell Hall 7-9.30pm
Type Tuesday is Eye’s regular event for everyone interested in graphic design, typography, type design, photography, illustration and visual culture.
This event, our 52nd Type Tuesday evening at St Bride Printing Library, features the spectacular design work of Kate Dawkins and the photography of Michael Collins, talking about his photobook The Nuclear Sublime. Editor John L. Walters and art director Simon Esterson will present a short preview of the issue’s contents.
Multi-BAFTA-winning video designer and creative director, Kate Dawkins is celebrated for her dynamic and immersive visual storytelling. She studied on the MA Visual Communication programme at Central Saint Martins before working at Intro for thirteen years and freelancing before founding Kate Dawkins Studio in 2016. Her notable projects include the BBC, the London Olympics 2012, Talvin Singh, Elton John, The Royal Edinburgh Military Tattoo, the Platinum Jubilee Opening and ceremonies marking Passchendaele, the Third Battle of Ypres and VE day.
Michael Collins has been working with photography for the last four decades, initially as a magazine picture editor, and then as a photography critic/writer, before becoming an art photographer. He is a photographer with a special interest in the ‘Record Pictures aesthetic’, who writes widely about photography. His books include Blind Corners. Essays on Photography (Notting Hill Editions, 2025) and The Nuclear Sublime
(RRB Photobooks, 2024). He was picture editor at the Telegraph Magazine (1990-96) and has been visiting professor of photography at the University of Suffolk since 2018. Currently he is working on a series of photographs and a forthcoming exhibition about Port Talbot’s blast furnaces.
The work of Dawkins and Collins will both be featured in no. 109, the forthcoming edition of Eye, the international review of graphic design. There will also be pieces about Harri Peccinotti, Veronika Burian and TypeTogether, illustrator Laura Carlin and an article about the role of graphic design in promoting Ultra Processed Food (UPF). Regular elements include the extensive Uncoated section with book and exhibition reviews, Type Reviews and Critique, the regular column by Rick Poynor, which in this edition covers an unexpected example of music design.
Tickets £14, £12 members/concessions, £9 students/LLMs
Save money by buying tickets in advance – all door sales will be £16 (including concessions).
Doors open 6.30pm. There will be a bar and a pop-up shop selling the latest issue, Eye 108, plus bargain back issues.
Subscribe to the Eye newsletter for more details. See also the Eye blog post about the recent ‘Type Tuesday: My favourite logo’ on 23 Sept 2025.
All proceeds go to support St Bride Foundation.
Ticket is non-refundable, however you are welcome to offer your ticket to another person. Please contact events@sbf.org.uk to change the name of your booking at least seven days prior to the event date.
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, Bride Lane, EC4Y 8EQ London
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Type Tuesday: Light Fantastic
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