Major Typographical Event

The Printing Museum is pleased to announce that Mr René Kerfante, former Managing-Director of Monotype Typography will be visiting The Museum on February 27th, 2017. Mr Kerfante, who has worked with most of the great names in typography such as Adrian Frutiger, Hermann Zapf and Matthew Carter, has agreed to give a lunchtime talk after the museum visit.

The topic will be: My life as Typesetter and Typographer: the transition from metal to photo to digital to computer typesetting, the production of typefaces for these technologies and my role in it.

We have secured a private room adjacent to Le Marché Bistro for the occasion.

The proposed format will be:

Meeting at the restaurant with drink and canapé at midday.

Lunch will be served in the private room around 12.30.

René will then give a half-hour talk which will be followed by questions, dessert and coffee, further opportunity to meet our guest and for you all to meet the other attendees who all have an interest in typography, typecasting and letterpress printing.

Details:

Time: 12pm - 2pm

Place: Le Marché Bistro, 1st floor, Woolstore Building, 262 Thorndon Quay.

Cost: $50 financial members of The Museum, $60 non-members. Food, wine and non-alcoholic refreshments included.

If you would like to take this opportunity to support our museum and become a financial member please visit: http://www.theprintingmuseum.org.nz/assets/renewal-form.pdf Memberships will be valid to March 2018.

As there is now a waiting list we would appreciate payment (and notification of any dietary requirements) by Monday 20th February.

A low-res digital version (minus letterpress supplement) of the 20-page December edition of Type High, The Museum's newsletter, is available on the website: http://www.theprintingmuseum.org.nz (http://www.theprintingmuseum.org.nz/)