We’d like to introduce the ninth speaker at our international St Bride Foundation Design Conclave on 28 September – double-BAFTA-winning video designer and creative director, Kate Dawkins. To find out more, please visit tinyurl.com/DesignConclave…

Fenner Paper are pleased to be sponsoring the St Bride Foundation Conclave 2024, why not join us on 28th September…

Pages from an 1840 type specimen from C. Macklot of Karlsruhe, Germany. See the digitised specimen in full here 👇 buff.ly/3YZ9wIX #TypeSpecimen #TypeDesign #Typography #PrintHistory #Letterpress #LibraryCollections #DigitisedCollections

📜⛺️Delighted to share MOO are sponsoring the Papercamp 3 lunch made by the fine folks at Potter and Reid (a woman owned café in Aldgate I go to a lot). 🥪🥰 Join me on the 21st 11am-5pm at St Bride Foundation for this bijou/weird/little event about paper. designswarm.com/papercamp-3/

We know it’s too soon to be thinking about the colder months, but we’re delighted to announce that Annie Atkins will be joining us on 5 December to talk about the making of her debut children’s book ‘Letters from the North Pole.’ Find out more: tinyurl.com/LettersfromNor…

Photos of the St Bride Foundation Printing School composing room, 1910s. The Printing School was based in our building until the 1920s, when it moved on to become what is now London College of Communication. #PrintHistory #StBrideFoundation #Heritage #PrintSchool

New talk announcement: Chemical Colour: Evidence for ‘Coal-Tar’ Pigments in British Printing Ink, 1860–1914 With Ian Dooley Wednesday 6 November 2024 St Bride Foundation and Online via Zoom 7–8.30pm GMT To book, please visit: tinyurl.com/chemicalcolour

BOOK OF THE WEEK: Discover the incredible power of fonts - how they influence your decisions, alter your perceptions, stir your emotions and change how you understand the world. Support us and Buy Here: uk.bookshop.org/a/7058/9780753… #Books #Fonts #typography #Design #CreativeDesign

Split Fountain Printing Even though used since the 1900s, today it pops up in all sorts of places . . . A blog post from The Ephemera Society of America. ephemerasociety.org/split-fountain… #Ephemera and #Printing

1827 specimen book by Anton Edlen von Schmid. 🔗 buff.ly/3Xxy7U5 #TypeSpecimen #TypeDesign #Typography #DesignHistory #PrintHistory #Letterpress

We are launching something very exciting next week. Watch this space! 👀🕵️‍♀️ #SBFTypEd

Discover Fleet Street's print heritage, learn about the craft of letterpress and see some beautiful early printed books a tour of St Bride Foundation. 📆 Next tour Thursday 26 September ⏰ 11am-1pm 👉 Book buff.ly/4ejxmDK #Tour #PrintWorkshop #LondonHistory #FleetStreet

Typeface advertisements from the 1960s and 1970s from the back issues of the Czech journal Typografia designreviewed.com/archive/ #typeface #typography

Find out more about our Design Conclave ‘Outside the Lines’ via the Eye magazine blog: eyemagazine.com/blog/post/all-…

📚 We have been adding a few more digitised type specimens to our collection on the Internet Archive, including this c.1830 Caslon & Livermore example. See the full digitised specimen book here 👇 buff.ly/3Xj2aNN #TypeSpecimen #TypeDesign #Typography #DesignHistory

BOOK OF THE WEEK: A history of ink, paper, printing press and type. An Inky Business is also an account of what news was, with echoes of our current 'fake news' and of how money and power shapes what is believed to be genuine information. uk.bookshop.org/a/7058/9781789… #news #Books

We are excited to launch our new type education programme, TypEd! 👉 Unlock centuries of typographic mastery with TypEd – a workshop series led by industry experts, delving into the art and craft of letterforms. 🔗 buff.ly/4dgAj6S #SBFTypEd #TypeDesign #DesignCourses

📃⛺️Look what the lovely people at G . F Smith donated for Papercamp 3! Attendees will use these to print keepsakes using the Victorian presses at St Bride Foundation 🖨️ Join us in person or online on Saturday from 11-5pm! designswarm.com/papercamp-3/

🎵 The Musicwriter is a typewriter for printing music, designed by composer and inventor Cecil S. Effinger in the 1950s. They were produced and sold internationally from 1956-1990. This example from our library dates to c.1960. #MusicPrinting #PrintHistory #TypeWriters