Our fifty-second Standing-Room-Only Lecture will have Paul Barnes coming from the Big Smoke to talk about JT (Jan Tschichold, not James Taylor or Justin Timberlake). In 2025 Fraser Muggeridge and Barnes curated a small exhibition in London to celebrate 100 years since the publication of “Elementare Typographie,” Jan Tschichold’s first major statement on the New Typography. It also marked 90 years since Typographische Gestaltung, effectively bookending his modernist period. Showing books and articles from this period, it allowed visitors to see items in the flesh, revealing far more than illustrations can offer. It also presented an opportunity to remake his work, in the form of both published (Saskia, Zeus, Transito, Ramses, and Uher Grotesk) and unpublished (his famed geometric design of 1930) typefaces. Another work, the konstruktivsten poster of 1937, was remade by Dafi Kühne using the same techniques Tschichold employed. (Also, FYI: the above images are © Lilo Tschichold-Link, courtesy German National Library, Leipzig.)
Our speaker, Paul Barnes, is a British type- and graphic designer. In 2006 he was named one of the forty most influential designers under 40 by Wallpaper* and in 2007 The Guardian named him as one of the fifty best designers in Britain. Also in 2007, he founded Commercial Type with Christian Schwartz.
Tickets are available for $10 each.
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Date and Time
Thursday, October 22 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.