Just to remind you the closing date for submissions for the type tart project is 30 October 2008.
If you’ve not yet picked up the brief we are inviting people to have some graphic fun and design a tart card either for a typeface or a letter of the alphabet – all in aid of St Bride Library.
If you are unfamiliar with these things, tart cards are the means by which London prostitutes advertise their services. Step in to any Central London call box and you can contemplate up to eighty cards inviting you to be tied, teased, spanked or massaged either in luxury apartments, fully-equipped chambers or the privacy of your own hotel room. So pervasive are these things, and so curious is their typography, images and copy writing they are now regarded as bona fide items of accidental art and have something of a cult following. Once on the periphery of design, the cards have influenced the work of many mainstream artists including Royal Academician Tom Philips and Sex Pistols designers, Ray and Nils Stevenson. Perhaps they can inspire you too? Maybe Sabon would invite you to caress its counters, or Palatino would advertise its ‘Mega Serifs’. Bodoni boasts some magnificent finials, Baskerville’s swash can really inflict some pain, and Century Schoolbook would undoubtedly keep you in after class. However you see the alphabet there is a type-tart in every letter.
For more information visit http://www.uktype.com/ or http://www.youplusus.net/.
Bookings for the Festival are now open and can be made online at http://www.youplusus.net/.
One-day ticket £15.00 (£10.00 concessions)
Full-Festival ticket £40.00 (£25.00 concessions)
Discounts available on groups of 10 or more.
See us also at the Field of Light, part of the Hello Digital Festival 23-26 October 2008.
If you’ve not yet picked up the brief we are inviting people to have some graphic fun and design a tart card either for a typeface or a letter of the alphabet – all in aid of St Bride Library.
If you are unfamiliar with these things, tart cards are the means by which London prostitutes advertise their services. Step in to any Central London call box and you can contemplate up to eighty cards inviting you to be tied, teased, spanked or massaged either in luxury apartments, fully-equipped chambers or the privacy of your own hotel room. So pervasive are these things, and so curious is their typography, images and copy writing they are now regarded as bona fide items of accidental art and have something of a cult following. Once on the periphery of design, the cards have influenced the work of many mainstream artists including Royal Academician Tom Philips and Sex Pistols designers, Ray and Nils Stevenson. Perhaps they can inspire you too? Maybe Sabon would invite you to caress its counters, or Palatino would advertise its ‘Mega Serifs’. Bodoni boasts some magnificent finials, Baskerville’s swash can really inflict some pain, and Century Schoolbook would undoubtedly keep you in after class. However you see the alphabet there is a type-tart in every letter.
For more information visit http://www.uktype.com/ or http://www.youplusus.net/.
Bookings for the Festival are now open and can be made online at http://www.youplusus.net/.
One-day ticket £15.00 (£10.00 concessions)
Full-Festival ticket £40.00 (£25.00 concessions)
Discounts available on groups of 10 or more.
See us also at the Field of Light, part of the Hello Digital Festival 23-26 October 2008.
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