Sue Walker

Prof of Typography at Uni of Reading. Design for public good. Collections and archives for creativity and research inspiration.

[St Bride Foundation @stbridefdn]

📚 Book of the week: The Bloomsbury Handbook of Global Typography
Edited by Aaris Sherin, Vaibhav Singh, Sue Walker

🔗 Get your copy here: https://t.co/oJIZsgCdXQ

[Ian Dennis / Indent Design @IndentDesign]

Sue Walker’s Guardian obituary of Michael Twyman.
Without Michael, my and Jo’s lives would have been very different

[Uni of Reading @UniofReading]

University of Reading's Art Collections and Lettering, Print & Graphic Design Collections have achieved Full Accreditation by Arts Council England (@ace_national), in recognition of their expert management and preservation for future generations.

More: https://t.co/o7OuFw41V9

[University of Reading Special Collections @UniRdg_SpecColl]

This is also affecting access to @UniRdg_ArtCol, @ColeZoology, @uremuseum, @UniRdgTypoColls websites.

Please bear with us while we get this sorted.

[cbcp_UniRdg @cbcp_UniRdg]

Last prep for #SHARP2024!

[Cristina De Luca @CristinaLu43503]

This is happening!!!!

#SHARP2024 #cbcpReading

@cbcp_UniRdg @SHARPorg

[Connecting Research @UniRdg_Research]

Next week over 300 delegates from all over the world will come to @UniofReading for the #SHARP2024 conference hosted by @cbcp_UniRdg on "Global Book Cultures: Materialities, Collaborations, Access".

Find out more at:
https://t.co/4idYzHTyvW

[Sue Walker @typowalker]

@drfredcooper Proud to have our chapter: ‘Testing, testing. What about the instructions? included! @eslacote @UniRdg_Research

[Fred Cooper @drfredcooper]

🌟It's publication day!!! 🌟
I'm really excited to share our new collection, Knowing COVID-19, edited with the brilliant @Des_Fitzgerald. The book brings together 8 fantastic essays on the epistemological work of the pandemic humanities:
https://t.co/pu4SCcfyeo

[UniRdg Typography @UniRdg_Typo]

Yet more of Typography papers now online! We are pleased to make available PDF files of articles from volumes 1, 2, 3, and 4 of Typography papers: https://t.co/PFPJxeWUin

[Prof Daniela La Penna @DanielaLaPenna1]

Enormously proud to share this good news! The work of years is finally coming out! Edinburgh Companion to #Women in #Publishing, 1900–2020 is now available for pre order: https://t.co/KvZ2P4GADx @EdinburghUP @cbcp_UniRdg

[Connecting Research @UniRdg_Research]

Professor Sue Walker (@UniRdg_Typo) and her team visited Rwanda to tackle #AMR.

They used design thinking to explore ways of explaining the dangers of drug-resistant bugs in the context of a community pharmacy. #WAAW2023

https://t.co/yuOfZ7oePq

[Connecting Research @UniRdg_Research]

Next week, @IrmiWachendorff will be exploring the significance of stickers as self-publishing in urban spaces at a seminar with @cbcp_UniRdg. 🏙️

Don't miss out! 👇

https://t.co/Y6LxtTUeZN

[Cultural Informatics @CultInformatics]

Join our webinar 'Towards a Diverse REF Culture: Digital Datasets and Tools as Contribution to Knowledge', Wed 22 November, 12-1pm with Dr Arianna Ciula @ariciula from @kingsdigitallab & Prof Jane Winters from @DH_ResearchHub. Info: https://t.co/aRZzK66Taw #CultureDigitalSkills

[Connecting Research @UniRdg_Research]

There's still time to catch 'Up in Arms', an exhibition from @cbcp_UniRdg @UniRdg_Typo exploring posters of protest, solidarity, engagement and action. ✊

The exhibition runs until 8 December 2023 - find out more 👇

https://t.co/VygNrklVgg

[Borna Izadpanah @BornaIz]

Handsetting the first ghazal of the Divan of Hafez around 250 years after its publication in London using the same hybrid Naskh-Nasta’liq type.
(Still missing a few alternates)

[Connecting Research @UniRdg_Research]

Join Dr Abba Abba @UniRdg_EngLit @cbcp_UniRdg on 7 December to discover how unpublished materials can help reclaim rebel authors' perspectives.

Find out more👇

https://t.co/aOlCTx13Bl

[cbcp_UniRdg @cbcp_UniRdg]

We are inviting applications for 3 funded Visiting Research Fellowships to scholars to conduct research & shape a new project drawing on the Reading University’s Archives & Special Collections relating to book & publishing cultures. More info here👇https://t.co/V8pQC4pYLk

[cbcp_UniRdg @cbcp_UniRdg]

We are excited to be collaborating with @typodiversity on a typography & type design event this Friday & Saturday. The full programme for this event is available here: https://t.co/lJUdTXZREJ

[Connecting Research @UniRdg_Research]

Stickers are one of the smallest and yet most visually expressive and liberated forms of signs in urban space - so what do they tell us? 🏙️🎨

Join @IrmiWachendorff and @cbcp_UniRdg on 30 November to explore the significance of stickers in urban spaces.

https://t.co/Y6LxtTTHaf