The Third Annual Conference of the Friends of St Bride Printing Library
will be held at St Bride's, Fleet Street, London, 18-20 October 2004. It is
entitled "Bad Type", and according to the organisers, it will consist of
"talks that are often wild, sometimes wicked and always wayward; that span
centuries and bridge continents; which juxtapose Cowboys with Indians,
Arabs with Jews, murderers with felons; and that put politics next to
religion and democracy next to Nazism. There are lectures that include type
made from fire and letters made from snow, and talks on typographic
failures, printed monstrosities and design insanities, plus a curious peep
show from a typo-voyeur". There will be three papers specifically of Middle
Eastern interest:-
"Problems of Arabic typefaces" by Nadine Chahine
"A multi-lingual typographic manifestation of Beirut post-war popular
culture" by Yasmine Tann
"Aleph=X, or contemporary Hebrew bad type" by Adi Stern
Full details of the conference can be found at
http://stbride.org/conference2004/
Geoffrey Roper
Bibliographical & library consultant
Cambridge
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