Hi-Rise Holiday Bazaar 2023
When we first moved to Cambridge, one of the very first places we made a point of visiting was Hi-Rise Bread Company. We love their Li’l Brekkie sandwiches, pound cakes, their Oreo-looking cookies, and...
View ArticleLetters from Outside the Bubble
Our twenty-sixth Standing-Room Only Lecture will have Nina Stössinger coming from the Borough of Homes and Churches to share visual notes from urban wanders in pursuit of unexpected letterforms:...
View ArticleType Specimen Super Sale
Printed type specimens are useful things—especially when they’re old. Some represent their time in history. Others document faces that are not available digitally and are ripe for ripping off reviving....
View ArticleWith My Little Eye: Warnings for the Homefront
Our thirtieth Standing-Room Only Lecture will have Tim Medland coming to speak of spies (and posters). Espionage for military purposes has been practiced for millennia, however “spy fever” first became...
View ArticleSchoolgirls at War: French Propaganda Posters from World War I
Our twenty-ninth Standing-Room Only Lecture will have Angelina Lippert coming from Chelsea to talk about the end of war. In the final year of World War I, the French government turned to Parisian...
View ArticleStrikethrough: Typographic Messages of Protest
Our twenty-seventh Standing-Room Only Lecture will have Silas Munro flying in from La La Land to discuss contemporary conditions of protest by using the exhibition and catalogue Strikethrough:...
View ArticleLooking Good on Paper: American Women and Soviet Print Culture in the 1930s
Our twenty-eighth Standing-Room Only Lecture will have Morgan Forde walking down the street from the Graduate School of Design at Harvard to look behind the curtain. In 1929, the USSR formed a company...
View ArticleNorman Ives at 101 + 1 Day: A Giveaway
Read carefully: On March 23, Norman Ives would have turned 101-years-old. On Sunday, March 24, we’ll celebrate this important designer, printer, and artist by giving away fifty copies of Norman Ives:...
View ArticleSeven Exceedingly Short Talks in New York City
Calling all New Yorkers! Our Visiting Curator will be speaking at a Typophiles Luncheon in your fair city. Stuff your face in the middle of the day at the Grolier Club (where the luncheon takes place)...
View ArticleSigned, Sealed, Delivered: The Party
Historically we have not had openings, receptions, or parties for our exhibitions, but so many people helped with our current show that we need to celebrate, celebrate, and dance to the music. Join us...
View ArticleTypographics Book Fair 2024
We’ll be packing our bags and heading down to New York City for the book fair at this year’s Typographics conference at Cooper Union. Mark your calendar for June 14 and 15 and 16 and then ask your...
View ArticleDeepcuts: 36 Small Things You Didn’t Know about Helena Bochoráková-Dittrichová
Our thirty-first Standing-Room Only Lecture will have Kelly Rene Bullard taking the 86 bus just a few stops to talk about Helena Bochořáková-Dittrichová. In the early 20th century, Czech artist and...
View ArticleYard Sale 2024
Sometimes it’s time to let things go. Weather permitting, that time will be Sunday, October 6. We’ll be putting out for cheap all sorts of good and kinda-good stuff. There’s talk of our parents...
View ArticleModern Pioneers in Typography and Design: Inge Druckrey in Conversation...
Our thirty-third Standing-Room Only Lecture will have chairs—and Tobias Frere-Jones interviewing Inge Druckrey about her new book, Modern Pioneers in Typography and Design. These two old friends will...
View ArticleBarry Moser’s Wood Engraving: The Boston Book Launch
The entire staff of Katherine Small Gallery invites you to celebrate a somewhat-recently republished book by legendary illustrator Barry Moser. His Wood Engraving is a primer on the art of (you guessed...
View ArticleHERE: Where the Black Designers Are. An Evening with Cheryl D....
Our thirty-second Standing-Room Only Lecture will have Cheryl D. Holmes-Miller asking and answering and reading. Designer, activist, and educator Holmes-Miller is legendary for her decades of...
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