The Bard Graduate Center is presenting a Study Day this Friday,
which may be of interest to you. Please call 212-501-3021 for more
information or to register.
Designing Identity: Typefaces as Human Expression
Friday, May 25 12:45-5:45 p.m.
Lecturers: Paul Shaw, with Elaine Lustig Cohen and Jane Rogers
Siegel
Lecture and Demonstration
Typographic styles, involving the choice of letterforms and the
layout of pages for books or other printed materials, can be read
as expressions of human culture. The history of Germany is written
in typefaces used there-specifically in the 20th century Weimar
and National Socialist years when the centuries-old struggle
between Roman and blackletter script resurfaced, and die neue
typografie (the new typography) was introduced. Graphic designer
and historian Paul Shaw will trace this phase of the debate over
the appropriate typeface to convey Germanic national character,
demonstrate the calligraphic structure underlying various
categories of type, and analyze examples from private collections
and the Cooper Union's Herb Lubalin Study Center of Design and
Typography.
Visit to Butler Library, Columbia University
Following an introduction to the collection by graphic arts
curator Jane Rogers Siegel, examples of examples of type
specimens, fine printing, and typographic arcana as preserved in
Columbia University's collection of the American Type Founders
Company Library and Museum will be viewed.
Visit to the Private Collection of Elaine Lustig Cohen Collection
On this special visit, graphic designer Elaine Lustig Cohen,
former partner and widow of Alvin Lustig, will share her personal
collection of early 20th-century works of graphic and typographic
design and address the use of design to express both cultural and
personal identity.
Exhibition Highlights Tour and Private Viewing at the BGC
German typefaces as illustrated in key pieces on view in Print,
Power, and Persuasion: Graphic Design in Germany, 1890-1945 will
be discussed on this guided tour and private viewing of the
exhibition.
This program has been organized in association with Columbia
University and the Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science and
Art.
12:30-5:45 p.m. lecture, demonstration, collection visits,
exhibition tour, and reception
$125 general
$ 85 seniors and students
Locations: Begins and concludes at the Bard Graduate Center
18 West 86th Street New York, New York 10024
Please call 212-501-3021 for more information or to register.
Leslie Klingner
Public Programs Department
The Bard Graduate Center
for Studies in the
Decorative Arts, Design, and Culture
18 West 86th Street
New York, NY 10024
212-501-3021 tel
212-501-3097 fax
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