Type Brigade №30: Project Pairs

Type Brigade is Vancouver’s type speaker series. We’re excited to announced that Type Brigade №30 is on March 1st with Post Projects (http://post-projects.com/) and The Hometown Project (http://hometownproject.ca/#the-hometown-project)!

• Doors: 6:30PM

• Talks begin: 7:00PM

• No admittance during talks

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Lettering by Andrea Husky (https://www.instagram.com/andreahusky/).

Jean Chisholm & Janine Merkl – The Hometown Project

The Hometown Project (http://hometownproject.ca/#the-hometown-project) aims to get people aware of the possibilities in their hometowns, and helps projects happen from the ground up. Started by Jean Chisholm (http://www.jeanchisholm.com/) and Janine Merkl (http://janinemerkl.com/) in 2014, they have grown the project around their hometowns of Prince George and Medicine Hat, even designing typefaces based on the lettering in their cities.

Beau House & Alex Nelson – Post Projects

Post Projects (http://post-projects.com/) is a Vancouver based design studio working for local and international clients across a diverse range of platforms and disciplines. Their work for Brassneck, Revolver, Western Front, and others has been extremely well-received by the Vancouver community. Partners Alex Nelson (https://twitter.com/alexnelson) and Beau House (https://twitter.com/beauhouse) will speak about the role of typography in their projects.

About Type Brigade

Type Brigade is Vancouver’s typography and type design speaker series. Every other month, we host talks with local designers, developers, artists, and type enthusiasts in the city. We also arrange special events and workshops with type designers and letterers from all over the world, including Martin Jackson, Lost Type, Commercial Type, and more.

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Custom Numerals

We signify each Type Brigade with a new set of custom numerals. This month’s №30 has been designed by the amazing Andrea Husky (https://twitter.com/andreahusky)! Below, the №27 print from a previous event:

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Sponsors

This edition of Type Brigade is sponsored by Port Paper Co. (http://www.portpaperco.com/), Unbounce (http://unbounce.com), and MetaLab (http://metalab.co/careers)!

Unbounce (http://unbounce.com) is kindly sharing their space with us. Thanks to Denise, Diane, and Joel for their help.

MetaLab is sponsoring drinks and some of our organisational overhead! They are opening an office in Gastown this spring and are hiring designers (http://metalab.co/careers).

Port Paper Co. sponsors our ongoing print series, This impressive, custom letterpress studio and producer of fine paper goods will help you print like it's 1450 all over again! (http://www.portpaperco.com/)

Our friends and previous speakers Shelley and Xandra of TypeCamp (http://www.typecamp.org/camps/) are also running a number of workshops in March. Sign up (http://www.typecamp.org/camps/) and let them know Type Brigade sent you for the early bird discount!

If you or your company is interested in working with us in the future, send me an email at kenneth@typebrigade.com .

Additional information

We’ll be photographing and possibly filming the meetup. The photos and video clips may be published on the Type Brigade websites or circulated to promote future meetups. If you have questions or concerns about that, please contact Kenneth (kenneth@typebrigade.com).

Beer is available at the event, making it 19+ with minors not permitted. Soda is also available. If you are under 19 and hoping to attend, or have any questions about this, please contact Kenneth (kenneth@typebrigade.com) as early as possible and we are happy to make arrangements.

Code of Conduct

Type Brigade strives to create a welcoming, safe, professional environment at our meetups. We commit to this through our attendee, organiser, and speaker Code of Conduct (http://typebrigade.com/code-of-conduct).

We strive to create a welcoming, safe environment to learn, for people of all backgrounds, and we’re committed to enforcing this through our attendee, organiser, speaker, and sponsor Code of Conduct.

If you have questions about the event, you can always contact kenneth@typebrigade.com or alanna@typebrigade.com .

Follow us

Make sure you follow @typebrigade on Twitter (http://twitter.com/typebrigade), and mention us if you have any questions.

See you at the event!