Time Travel: Reading the History of Everything in Letterforms | Robert Bringhurst, Guest Designer
Tuesday, October 8, 3:30–5 pm
Noble Hall Lounge
Free & open to the public

Summary:
We'll start by looking closely at a recent book about the Italian Renaissance, examining how the design both honors and contradicts the subject. Then we'll look at ways in which the design could honor the subject more fully – and ways in which the subject would have to change to fit the design. Doing this will involve a quick tour of the work of a couple of Florentine Renaissance artists and a close look at the letterforms those artists put into their work. There'll be a brief stop in 18th-century England. Then we'll plow head-first into the unsolved problems of book production in the present day.
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Robert Bringhurst is known to most designers and typographers as the author of The Elements of Typographic Style, a book that is now in its fourth English edition and has been translated into 10 other languages. In addition, Bringhurst is one of Canada's best-loved poets and essayists and a linguist admired for his work in translating and interpreting Native American oral literature.

Full bio and details at: https://vcfa.edu/graphic-design-fall-2019-public-events/

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