Charitable Trust Educational Liaison Report
In the past year the Charitable Trust has supported the following educational opportunities for students and recent graduates:
• Sponsored student tickets for the Letter Exchange Lecture Series
• Sponsored student tickets for St Bride Foundation Lectures
• Sponsored student tickets for the Annual St Bride Foundation Conference
• Sponsored student tickets at an Orange Beak evening with Thereza Rowe
• A sponsored residency with London Centre for Book Arts
• A sponsored apprenticeship at Paekikariki Press
Here is a little more information about each of those:
Letter Exchange Lecture Series
Letter Exchange (LX) is a 200+ strong organisation of members representing the breadth of the lettering arts. Each year they run a lecture programme at the Art Workers Guild (and online) highlighting the diversity of creative possibility in working with letterform and best practice of all kinds. For each of the 8 lectures per year we sponsor 10 free student tickets.
To give some sense of the scope of the series, last year the lecturers were:
October 2023
Martin Cook
The good, the bad & the uglyNovember 2023
Michèle Woodger and Tszwai So
Remembrance now: 21st century memorial architectureDecember 2023
Richard Kindersley
Looking forward reaching backFebruary 2024
Julia Humfress
Typographic control & artistic freedomMarch 2024
Susie Leiper
Writing and painting: same source 书画同源April 2024
Jamie Clarke
Led by letters – circular creativity in type and letteringMay 2024
Mahmoud Mostafa
Into the heart of Arabic calligraphyJune 2024
Paul Shaw
The calligraphy and lettering of W.A. Dwiggins
You can see the overview of each past lecture and the new ones on the Events page of the Letter Exchange website.
This year the first speaker was Society member Carol Kemp and we can happily report that it was a student ticket sellout. We would like to thank the LX committee and acknowledge the work of LX Chair, Jeremy Tankard, in helping to circulate information about the availability of these sponsored tickets, which has resulted in a quicker uptake of these opportunities across a wider range of educational organisations and institutions.
St Bride Foundation Lectures
The St Bride Foundation and Library hosts a variety of print-related lectures, exhibitions and talks throughout the year, as well as talks and conferences on everything from poster design to handwriting, resulting in an exciting and vibrant series of events running the whole year round. Our donation of £600 was carefully timed to be paid during their match funding period so it was doubled to £1200 for the year, allowing double the amount of opportunities for student engagement.
The Charitable Trust has sponsored attendance at the following events:
September 2023
Antonio Cavedoni
Unexpected Baskerville: The Story of Love From Serif [9 in-person]
January 2024
Stanley Donwood
The curse of Fleet Street [15 online, 4 in-person]
February 2024
Angela Harding
A printmakers view [6 online, 3 in-person]
March 2024
Clara Vulliamy
Shirley Hughes and friends [10 online, 2 in-person]
March & April 2024
Peter Saville in conversation with Paul Barnes
Always now: typography and semiotics, parts 1 & 2 [part 1: 20 online, 3 in-person; part 2: 20 online, 2 in person]
April 2024
Jessica Hische
Justin Howes Memorial Lecture [10 online, 12 in-person]
May 2024
Emily Yates
Importing accessibility into design [5 online]
Annual St Bride Foundation Conference, ‘Imagination. Inspiration. Innovation. Invention’, November 2023
Topics for the St Bride Foundation Conference 2023 included designing the graphics for the smash flick Barbie, furthering the education and skills of prisoners, inventing stained glass driverless sleeper cars, and that is only the tip of their ‘designberg!’ as delivered by speakers including Neville Brody, Sarah Boris, Jean Julien, Dominic Wilcox, Bob Richardson, and Naomi Kent. Attendees also had the opportunity to explore the letterpress workshop and try their hand at printing and find out more about some of the treasures in the St Bride Library collections. We sponsored three in-person student tickets for this most marvellous of events.
We would like to thank Becky Chilcott (Events Curator) for overseeing coordination of the sponsored tickets for both the lectures and the annual conference, which over the past two years have reached students from: Birmingham Central University, Belfast School of Art, Central School of Speech and Drama, recent graduates and interns from Macmillan Publishers, Salford University, Central St Martins, Falmouth University, LCC, Anglia Ruskin, Norwich University of the Arts, UCA Epsom, UCA Farnham, University of Central Lancashire, Reading University, Bournemouth University, mentees from the Design Publishing & Inclusivity group, Brighton University, members of the Black and Brown Book Designers group, Creative Access members and more.
Orange Beak evening with Thereza Rowe
The organiser, Orange Beak Studio is an award winning team of children's book creatives. They offer one-to-one tutorials, mentoring, portfolio surgeries, workshops and talks. The event we sponsored was a talk by author, illustrator, and print-maker Thereza Rowe. Thereza has written and illustrated several picture books including Hearts (Toon Books), Mister Pip (Tate Publishing), In the Woods (Thames & Hudson) and We All Have Imagination (Owl & Dog). Thereza’s debut young reader graphic novel Hearts was shortlisted for the World Illustration Prize and her board book We All Have Feelings won Best Cover Award from the Academy of British Cover Design (ABCD). Feedback from students that we sponsored was really positive and made it clear that this had been a really inspiring opportunity.
London Centre for Book Arts
We sponsored a residency for recent graduate and illustrator Lily Kong at London Centre for Book Arts. LCBA is an artist-run, open-access studio offering education programmes for the community and affordable access to resources for artists and designers. Lily used her time with LCBA to explore the process of printing-making, experimenting in the spaces between collage, relief-printing and riso printing. In the second half of her residency Lily drew together what she had learned from her earlier experimentation to make a book called Sweet Escape. It is a celebration of memory and materiality, with the vertical format of the book chosen to evoke the door we pass through as readers, on the way to visiting the landscapes Lily has evoked across the most beautiful sequence of pages. It was not the project she had planned, but as she reflects, the residency taught her to, ‘find smaller goals as starting points as it helps finding a common ground for new skills and new work.’ The residency equipped her with an array of new technical skills and insights into the processes of making a book, not to mention a new network of support. Going forward she hopes to expand on this work and develop a larger body of work further exploring themes of joy and anxiety.
If you would like to know more about Lily’s work then do please see her Instagram page.
Paekakariki Press
Paekakariki Press is a letterpress workshop in Walthamstow run by Matt McKenzie with a focus on publishing poetry. They set up in 2010 with the goal of maintaining the tradition of letterpress printing in danger of disappearing in the digital age. The Charitable Trust has been sponsoring an apprenticeship with the Press which has seen Charlotte Carpenter producing beautiful, printed books including There you are, poems by Roger Huddle and My lover as Houdini by Robert Seatter.
Download the Wynkyn de Worde Society Charitable Trust Account Summary 2023-2024