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I’m particularly thrilled that for the forthcoming ‘Punches to pixels’ that type designer Veronika Burian, has found time to come to the UK for this talk. She’s a leading figure within international type design; a multiple award-winner; and the subject of a substantial interview (extract here) in the latest issue of Eye. Burian co-founded TypeTogether in 2006 with Argentinian type designer José Scagliano. The digital type foundry celebrates its twentieth anniversary this year.

The Eye 109 interview, by Amy Papaelias, touches on many aspects of the foundry’s development and activities over two decades, including the founding of the Gerard Unger Scholarship for emerging type designers, and the extensive Primarium project for research into handwriting.

Richard Ardagh on Type Archived.

Also at ‘Punches to pixels’, another great friend of Eye, Richard Ardagh, who wrote about Dafi Kühne in Eye 108. Ardagh has just written and designed the crowdfunded book Type Archived, which celebrates the legacy of Sue Shaw’s efforts, over three decades, to establish and maintain the Type Archive in Kennington, South London, which brought together around eight million artefacts that told the story of typography and printing.

We covered this in ‘Archiving the Archive’ in Eye 106, which includes interviews with Sallie Morris and Ardagh, who organised, catalogued, recorded and helped pack up the Archive’s contents in the years following Shaw’s death in 2020, and the Archive’s 2023 closure.

Type Archived sheds new light on the story. Ardagh is a graphic designer and letterpress printer who graduated from Central St Martins in 2003 and founded his studio in 2006. He is a partner of letterpress print studio New North Press.

Theo Hersey.

Our friend Theo Hersey will also be joining us at ‘Punches to pixels’ with a short presentation about The Typography Workshop, which he bought from Alan Kitching in 2023.

Theo Hersey in The Typography Workshop.

The evening will be presented by me and Eye’s art director Simon Esterson. Please book your tickets without delay.

The Type Tuesdays we organise at St Bride raise money for the SBF and its remarkable collection of artefacts from the worlds of type and printing. The SBF is always worthy of support, whether through events, donations, merchandise or bequests. Next month we will be organising a Type Thursday in Manchester. Please subscribe to our newsletter to keep up with Eye news.

The work of Veronika Burian and TypeTogether features in Eye 109, alongside that of Kate Dawkins and Michael Collins (speakers at our last Type Tuesday), illustrator Laura Carlin and Serge Ricco’s profile of Harri Peccinotti. You can buy copies of Eye at Type Tuesday along with bargain back issues and copies of Richard Ardagh’s Type Archived, to be reviewed in the forthcoming Eye 110.

John L. Walters, editor of Eye, London

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