The Annual St Bride Foundation Conference returns!

St Bride Foundation has reprised its annual conference, with the event set to take place in November. It's live event and also being live-streamed to a worldwide audience for the first time.

Conference Identity by David Pearson

Talking to Printweek, event curator Becky Chilcott said the pandemic had resulted in “a greater need to bring our fantastic community together more often and inspire and engage with them and their creativity”, and it was the perfect time to revive the event. “Not only will the conference keep the St Bride Foundation alive in people’s creative imaginations, it will also raise vital funds to help the upkeep of our Grade II listed Victorian building, management and conservation of our unique and irreplaceable library collections and running of our print workshop and learning programme.” The St Bride Foundation said the event would be “a conversazione celebrating innovation, inspiration, imagination and invention”. 

The speaker line-up includes: Naïma Ben Ayed, Neville Brody, Jean Julien, Naomi Kent, Alicia Martin, Bob Richardson, Venessa and Vanice Scott, and Dominic Wilcox. Attendees will also be able to find out more about some of the treasures and notable items in the St Bride Library collection, and will have a chance to try letterpress printing using the historic presses in the St Bride printing workshop

Fenner Paper is pleased to be one of the principal sponsors along with Commercial Type and the Fleet Street Quarter together with Google and the Wynkyn de Worde Society Charitable Trust.

Principal Sponsors

The conference will take place on Saturday 11 November at the St Bride Foundation in London. In person tickets cost £60, £70 or £80. Online tickets for the live-stream are £35, £45, or £50. The discounted rates apply to students and Friends of St Bride.

You can book HERE. So why don't you get those little grey cells moving and sign up! NOW

https://sbf.org.uk/whats-on/view/the-annual-st-bride-foundation-conference/

St Bride Virtual Wayzgoose - TODAY!

Last month, on 17th May it would have been the 6th annual St Bride Foundation WAYZGOOSE organised by Mick and Gill Clayton. For obvious reasons with the Covid lockdown, it was cancelled. A Wayzgoose is a term (unfamiliar to most people) that used to refer to an annual holiday in a print-works and was often an away-day to the coast or some other sort of day out, more often than not, paid for by the firm. In this instance the St Bride Wayzgoose is a kind of letterpress 'bring and buy' sale.

It was very sad that it was cancelled as every year, it is a chance for quite a large number of people to get together, as you can see from a picture below from a previous year...

Thanks to Becky Chilcott, a stalwart volunteer at St Brides, there is a 'virtual wayzgoose'  - TODAY.  It is made up of many people who would normally attend the Wayzgoose, who have all made 2 minute videos, including yours truly...

All videos will be available to watch on their Vimeo account from 8am today and will be sharing them throughout the day every half an hour on Twitter (with regular cake breaks!) until 8pm.
The video channel is: https://vimeo.com/stbridehttps://

...and the wayzgoose always requires Cake!

Every year I run the Fenner Paper stall, where we sell offcuts and leftovers with the money raised donated to the St Bride Foundation. Last year we raised a record breaking £357! For interest, this is the way my 'non-virtual' stall usually looks...

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https://vimeo.com/stbride/
https://www.sbf.org.uk/

Posted by Justin Hobson 06.06.2020

Illustration: Making Pictures

A new conference at St Bride's has been announced called Illustration: Making Pictures on 19th June 2012.

"Creativity is allowing yourself to make mistakes. Art is knowing which ones to keep" Scott Adams

Here's some information about it:
Illustration plays an integral part in many of our design processes – from interpreting the ideas of designers, to bringing to life an author’s words. Free from the constraints of a set brief, illustration can act as an outlet where creative expression can roam freely.

Mike Nicholson

We normally only see the highly polished end result in the pages of a magazine, on a billboard or a jam jar label, but for illustrators this journey starts with ideas; with scribbles and sketches, mistakes and musings.

With the advent of digital technology, we can gain more immediate insight into the story behind the pictures. Illustration can blur the boundaries across design, art, and typography and above all illustration engages, delights and inspires offering a fresh perspective to the world we live in.

There are some great speakers (see pics) coming, it should be an excellent event.

Pure Cow - Linzie Hunter

The Metal Pig - John Lawrence

Speakers include: Ben Flynn, John Lawrence, Linzie Hunter, Kai and Sunny, Nic Rawling, Peter Schrank, Helen Stephens  – more to be announced shortly.

Conference illustrator: Mike Nicholson

Demonstrators: Paul Antonio, Helen Ingham, Richard Lawrence, Peter Smith

Tickets are £85 (£70 for Friends of St Bride's members) · concessions and full-time students £60

For more information, follow the link:
http://stbride.org/events?show=illustration

Posted by Justin Hobson 11.05.2012