Our forty-second Standing-Room-Only Lecture will have Cyrus Highsmith coming from the beehive of industry to talk about his thirty-year practice of keeping sketchbooks at hand. He drew letters, chairs, tools, bunnies, friends and students, and Darth Vader. He was following lines, working out ideas, and observing the world around him. (He’s not dead. He’s still doing this.) This one’s not to be missed. (Unless you didn’t get a ticket.) And it goes well with this new book about Cyrus’s sketchbooks.

Our speaker, Cyrus Highsmith of Occupant Fonts, is a letter drawer, teacher, author, and graphic artist. He teaches type design at RISD and wrote and illustrated the acclaimed primer Inside Paragraphs: Typographic Fundamentals. In 2017, he became Creative Director for Latin Type Development at Morisawa USA.


Tickets

Thirty tickets are available for $10 each.
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Date and Time
Tuesday, October 28 at 7p
Doors open at 6p for mingling.

Place
Katherine Small Gallery
108 Beacon Street
Somerville, MA 02143 [map]

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Standing-Room Only Lectures aim to present short talks about graphic design, typography, and collecting. The lectures are kept to about twenty minutes because—true to its name—the series takes place in our standing-room only gallery. So, wear comfortable shoes and bring a short attention span.

We will be checking ticket reservations at the door. Don’t bother printing your ticket as we can look you up by name. We will have a stand-by line at the door for this event. Five minutes before the event begins, we will open up the event to those in the stand-by line on a first-come, first-served basis. If you have reserved a ticket for this event, please note that it will guarantee your place until 6:55 pm on the day of the event.


FAQ
Will this talk be recorded or available for streaming?
Nope.