XX: A Novel, Graphic Exploring the narrative potential of graphic design
XX: A Novel, Graphic Exploring the narrative potential of graphic design
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Online via ZOOM
With Rian Hughes
Exclusive signed copies of Rian’s book XX: A Novel, Graphic are available to buy with a ticket to this event for UK residents only. They are being sold at a reduced price of £15 including postage and packaging (RRP £20.00). They will be sent out the week after the event.
“As a designer, I’ve always wondered how the novel could use the full expressive possibilities of type and layout to tell a story. Everyone knows readers will imbue the same text with different meanings, depending on which font the text is set in. Just this in itself presents interesting creative storytelling possibilities that the novel has only occasionally touched upon. And, as type designers, we are free to create new voices when we design new fonts, or even whole new alphabets. However, without useful application, experimental font design can be an academic and sterile exercise. Typographers create the form, not the content. We create tools, but we don’t put those tools to work. With XX
I have attempted to create a form of narrative design, a ‘novel, graphic.’”
Rian has designed new fonts, curated old ones, drawn illustrations and diagrams and taken photographs to graphically enhance the narrative of his book. These are supplemented by redacted NASA reports, artwork, magazine articles, secret transcripts, and a novel within the novel called ‘Ascension’. In this talk he will give us an insight into his explorations that lead to his creation of the book to tell a story like no other . . .
‘A brilliant co-mix of text and graphic design in which sign, symbol and word are linguistically intertwined and reinvented.’ Steven Heller
‘Brilliant, exciting, absorbing and mind-blowing . . . a perfect work of art about what it means to be human in a world of gigantic ideas’ Grant Morrison
Rian Hughes is a graphic designer, illustrator, comic artist, writer and typographer who has worked extensively for the British and American advertising, music and comic book industries. He has written and drawn comics for 2000AD and Batman: Black and White, and designed logos for James Bond, the X-Men, Superman, Hed Kandi and The Avengers. He has produced Hawaiian shirts, ranges for Swatch, record sleeves for Ultravox and the Winchell Riots, and designed many typefaces which are available through his foundry, Device Fonts. His illustrations have appeared in magazines in the UK, US and Japan, and a retrospective monograph collecting his work, Art, Commercial, was published in 2001. Recent books include Cult-ure: Ideas Can Be Dangerous and Lifestyle Illustration of the ’50s. His comic strips have been collected in Yesterday’s Tomorrows and Tales from Beyond Science, and his burlesque portraits in Soho Dives, Soho Divas. Just published by Korero Press is Logo a Gogo, which collects all his logo designs for the comic-book world and beyond.
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.
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XX: A Novel, Graphic Exploring the narrative potential of graphic design
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