Dear Geoffrey Roper
I have changed jobs and moved to a new country. I
would be much obliged if you could remove my email
address from the group's mailing list.
With all best regards,
Nigel Parsons
--- "G.J. Roper" <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> 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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