Type Brigade

Type Brigade №59

Fri, Feb 20 · 7:00 PM PST

BCIT Downtown Campus, 555 Seymour St, Vancouver, BC, CA

Type Brigade is Vancouver’s typography meetup.

Join us at the BCIT Downtown Campus:

• Doors at 6:30pm
• Talks begin at 7:00pm

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

Speakers

Alicia Koo – Soft Rebellions: For When You're Too Polite To Scream
thedailyatelier.co

Typography, especially when used subversively, can shift perspectives and play an active role in cultural movements. In this talk, I explore how type can embody micro-opinions (the small but powerful statements that challenge norms) and how we can use it to communicate loudly without needing to shout.

Soft Rebellions is for creatives learning to speak up, both for themselves and for others. Type plays a powerful role in this: it shapes how our voices are seen, read, and remembered. By treating typography as advocacy, we can rally folks around shared causes and create a greater culture of care.

Genevieve Tyack
https://gendesign.co

Genevieve Tyack is an experience designer based in Vancouver and the principal of Community Studios, a practice specializing in wayfinding and environmental graphic design. Working at the intersection of typography, architecture, and public space, her work focuses on creating intuitive systems that help people navigate complex civic, cultural, and public environments.

From street signs and transit maps to building directories and temporary event signage, typography shapes how we move through space. This talk explores wayfinding as a typographic practice, one shaped by distance, movement, stress, and context, and why successful wayfinding often goes unnoticed. Genevieve examines how letterforms perform in the city, what makes type legible while moving, and how signage functions as a form of urban language that helps people navigate and feel comfortable within the built environment.

Call for Speakers

If you’re interested in speaking at Type Brigade our Call for Speakers is currently open. Submit a talk yourself, or share the link with a friend or colleague you’d like to see speak.

Sponsors and Partners

BCIT Digital Arts, Media and Design
Thanks very much to to BCIT for hosting us at their Downtown Campus.
bcit.ca

Arcane Type Foundry, formerly Alanna Munro Type Foundry
arcanetype.com

Kenneth Ormandy
kennethormandy.com

Mitchell Press
Thanks to Mitchell Press for producing our prints for some of our events! Talk to them for high speed, premium quality, commercial printing.
mitchellpress.com

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: alanna at 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!