Our forty-first Standing-Room Only Lecture will have chairs—and Matthew Carter walking from the Dairy District to talk about some types of experimental types. Parallel to the canonical history of type design there has been a persistent undercurrent of exploration beyond the norms. Innovative designers have been challenged by recurrent themes: legibility v space, capitals v lowercase, roman v italic, serif v sans serif, and so on. Most of these well-intentioned types failed to survive, but several merit a closer look.
Matthew Carter is a type designer whose work can be seen on your computer (Georgia and Verdana) and in the New York Times, Boston Globe, and Sports Illustrated, and all over Yale University. He has received just about every possible recognition the graphic design industry has to offer—including a 2019–2020 exhibition at Katherine Small Gallery.
Tickets are available for $15 each.
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Date and Time
Tuesday, October 7 at 6:15p
Place
The Foundry
101 Rogers Street
Cambridge, MA 02142 [map]
(This is an 11-minute walk from the Green Line’s Lechmere or a 9-minute walk from the Red Line’s Kendall/MIT. Parking should be drama-free.)
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Standing-Room Only Lectures usually aim to present short talks about graphic design, typography, and collecting. This time, however, the talk will be an illustrated conversation—and it won’t be short. And there will be chairs for everyone.