TALKSTALKSTALKS
Ulli Freer, Stephen Mooney and Will Rowe: '1968 was lost or not: Beginning, Cycles, Bill Griffiths'
Wednesday 5th March 7.30-9pm
Rm 407
Birkbeck College Main Building
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Barack To The Future
'The typophiles among you have realized that the “change” font Obama’s campaign uses is Gotham, designed by Hoefler & Frere-Jones, originally as a commission for GQ Magazine.
Jonathan Hoefler and Tobias Frere-Jones spoke about the creation of Gotham during our interview for Helvetica, and looking back at their description of what GQ wanted from the font, it sounds surprisingly Obama-esque. “GQ had a dual agenda of wanting something that would look very fresh, yet very established, to have a credible voice to it,” says Hoefler. It also needed to look very masculine and “of-the-moment.”'
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Matchbox
James Davies's Matchbox series has now been added to the Openned press. Get them while you still can.
In other news, Graeme Estry's excellent food source Harpoon Crush has been added to the Openned reader, alongside if:book and the International Exchange for Poetic Invention. No Mr. Non-Crunchy Nutter.
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