Type Brigade №52 × Design Vancouver Festival

Type Brigade is Vancouver’s typography meetup. Type Brigade №52 is on September 20, 2024, as part of the Design Vancouver Festival!

Join us at the BCIT Downtown Campus:

- Doors: 6:30PM
- Talks begin: 7:00PM

Please note that any guests you’d like to bring with you should register on the Meetup group themselves.

Speakers

Christopher Rouleau – Sign Painting and the Rise of the Analog
https://christopherrouleau.com
https://instagram.com/chris_rouleau

Creating letters by hand has been part of human lives for centuries. The tradition of sign painting as we know it emerged more concretely during the industrial revolution, with the expressed purpose of announcing or advertising products, services and events. The styles ranged from utilitarian to highly ornate. Sign painting (or sign writing) was a paid profession, as common as tailoring, farming or banking, and required hours of training and apprenticeship.

Sign painting is a perfect blend of draftsmanship and artistry, of rules and intuition, of precision and incongruity. With the emergence of the “slow movement” in the last decade, and a renewed interest in analog techniques – perhaps as a reaction against artificial intelligence and the technologies that dominate so many aspects of our lives – the demand for traditional sign painting has returned. Many small businesses prefer signs made by humans, not machines. People want art in their homes made by people, not factories. And those with an interest in typography and handmade letterforms (both professionals and hobbyists) are once again interested in painting letters by hand.

I will share my research and experience as a self-taught sign painter, and offer some insights into the rise of analog techniques, the increased demand for traditional sign painting, and why the handmade can co-exist in a digital world.

Zia Somjee & Kristian Hay – Type As Seen By Non-Type Designers
https://wearezak.com
https://www.instagram.com/wearezak/

Zia Somjee and Kristian Hay make up two of the three founders of ZAK – a full service creative agency in Vancouver specialized in brand development and visual identity. Over the last 6 years, ZAK has helped clients big and small strengthen their brand voice through strategy, visual identity, and a multi-disciplinary approach to design.

ZAK approaches typography as one piece of a visual puzzle, something that can be used in bold and image-centric ways, or in more subtle and textural ways. Always asking the question, “how can this help tell a story”, ZAK has a specific viewpoint on type and the role it plays in visual communication.

Call for Speakers

If you’re interested in speaking at future Type Brigade, our Call for Speakers is open once again.
https://typebrigade.com/call-for-speakers/

Sponsors and Partners

BCIT
Thanks very much to to BCIT for hosting us at their Downtown Campus.
https://www.bcit.ca/

Design Vancouver Festival
We’re proud to hold this event as part of Design Vancouver Festival, running September 19–29, 2024.
https://designvancouver.org/

Kenneth Ormandy
https://kennethormandy.com/newsletter/

Alanna Munro Type Foundry
https://alannamunro.com/

Is your team interested in sponsoring or working with Type Brigade? Read more about what we can offer you: http://typebrigade.com/sponsors

Accessibility information

We will be on the 2nd floor of BCIT’s Downtown Campus. It is wheelchair accessible via an elevator from the main floor. If there are additional accessibility considerations that we can provide information on or help facilitate to make this event worthwhile for you, please email: kenneth@typebrigade.com

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.

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See you at the event!