Co-chairs and co-authors Steven Heller and Lita Talarico will lead a lively panel on typography sketchbooks based on their book of the same name.

Wednesday, January 11, 2012, 6 – 8 p.m.
Stephen A. Schwarzman Building, Margaret Liebman Berger Forum. Free. First come, first served. Doors open at 5:30 p.m.

Join designers Travis Cain (MFAD ’04), Viktor Koen, Matt Luckhurst (MFAD’10), Esther K Smith + Dikko Faust (of Purgatory Pie Press), discuss the merits of the graphic designer’s typography sketchbook, a creative “work-out” space for generating ideas and drafting unique type that becomes synonymous with brands and institutions around the world. An unrestrained and idiosyncratic collection, the book Typography Sketchbooks includes work by boundary-pushing designers including Ivan Chermayeff, Carlos Segua, Milton Glaser, Maira Kalman, Bob Aufuldish, Matthew Carter, Javier Mariscal, Patrick Thomas, Erik Spiekermann, Viktor Nubel, Peter Bilak, and Jean-Baptiste Levee. This event is a chance to talk type with two type fans.

From the NYPL: “Typography is an obsession for most designers. It’s at the heart of all visual communication and is one of the purest forms of design, one that can always be improved and refined. Typography Sketchbooks gets into the minds of designers who create typefaces, word images and logos through their private sketchbooks. The result of these wide-ranging typographic musings provides fascinating insights into the expressive quality of letters and words. Aimed at all those who use type, whether by hand or on-screen, this pleasing compendium stresses the importance of good typography at a time when reading habits are changing and celebrates a craft that has endured for centuries.”