📚 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
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
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
🌟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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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)
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
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
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
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