Latest Past Events

Living with Type with Ellen Lupton

The Cooper Union 41 Cooper Square Rose Auditorium, New York

Does autospacing make your tummy hurt? Does Papyrus make your eyes roll? Once exposed to the art of typography, many individuals never recover. Ellen Lupton will share stories about people who learned to live with type and lead productive, possibly happy lives. Meet Type Mom (Ellen’s beloved alter ego), and learn about Thinking with Type, …

Free

A Life in Design

Rizzoli Bookstore 1133 Broadway, New York

Acclaimed interior designer to the Hollywood A-list Kathryn M. Ireland celebrates thirty years of decorating in conversation with Kate Betts. PLEASE NOTE: RSVPs are encouraged but not required. Seating is limited and will be first come, first served. Doors open at 5:30 pm.

Old Type, New Type: Marta Bernstein in conversation with Alexander Tochilov

Salotto NYC 84 Withers Street, Brooklyn

Marta Bernstein will take you back in time to the Nineteenth Century through its overly-decorated, quirky, and extremely lively typefaces. Can we still learn anything from the past? Do we really need to preserve all that old paper artifacts? Public libraries, dusty archives, and long forgotten books: what feeds creativity is often waiting in disguise. …

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