Ken Garland: Galy Tots
22 March – 21 April 2012

Ken Garland is one of the UK’s leading graphic exponents, a former editor of Design Magazine, with lectureships which have included the University of Reading, the Royal College of Art and the Central School of Art and Design.

This exhibition highlights the most significant designs during Galt’s transformation from school furnishers to makers of retail children’s toys. Initially producing the branding and catalogues for Galt, along with his new team (Ken Garland & Associates) he expanded his portfolio with concepts for toys and games, notably Connect, Marble Run and Fizzog, which seemed to straddle the grey area between teaching and learning design. Read more here

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London EC2A 3PD
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Celebrate the launch of a new typeface by Jeremy Tankard at Kemistry Gallery

Jeremy Tankard has decided to have a party for his latest typeface.
It has seven weights and two styles. Its name is Fenland.

Launch party and exhibition
Monday 19 March 2012
6—9pm

43 Charlotte Road
London EC2A 3PD
+44 (0)20 7729 3636
info@kemistrygallery
www.kemistrygallery.co.uk

This exhibition/book brings together books to illustrate a canon of more than five hundred years of Western book design. It showcases book design in all its forms: reference works and works of art, ‘machines for reading’ and picture books, prestigious collector’s items and throwaway paperbacks. It includes work by famous printers of the hand-press period — Nicolas Jenson, Aldus Manutius, Christoffel Plantin, the Elzeviers, John Baskerville, Giambattista Bodoni — and trendsetting designers of the modern era — William Morris, El Lissitzky, Jan Tschichold, Paul Rand, Massin, Irma Boom. It also includes remarkable illustrated works by architects and artists such as Giovanni Battista Piranesi and Maria Sibylla Merian. Special attention is devoted to printers’ manuals, illuminating the printing process, and also to type specimens and writing masters’ copybooks, placing letterforms in a broader context.

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