ST BRIDE LIBRARY
St Bride is the world’s foremost graphic arts library and a rendezvous for all those involved in contemporary graphic communication—designers, printers, publishers, journalists, academics and students. It is a place where anyone with either a professional or passing interest in design can meet and where all aspects of the practical, cultural and technical achievements of the industry can be studied. It is also a place of inspiration that has encouraged many designers, motivated generations of students and stimulated numerous authors.
Please help to maintain this vital and invaluable resource by participating in the type-tart project.
THE BRIEF
We would like you to design a type-tart card either for a typeface or a letter of the alphabet. If you are unfamiliar with these things, tart cards are the means by which London prostitutes advertise their services. So pervasive are these things, and so curious is their typography, images and copy writing they are now regarded as items of accidental art and have something of a cult following. Once on the periphery of design, the cards have influenced the work of many mainstream artists including Royal Academician Tom Philips and Sex Pistols designers, Ray and Nils Stevenson. Perhaps they can inspire you too? Maybe Sabon would invite you to caress its counters, or Palatino would advertise its ‘Mega Serifs’. Bodoni boasts some magnificent finials, Baskerville’s swash can really inflict some pain, and Century Schoolbook would undoubtedly keep you in after class.
SPECIFICATION
A6 (105 x 148 mm) landscape or portrait Typographic, illustrative, photographic: or a combination of techniques of your choosing hand- or machine-made; single- or full-colour. Side 1 – image and text; Side 2 – sign and date. Supply hard copy only, electronic versions will not be accepted. Please remember to supply your full contact details when you submit your work.
THE RESULTS
Wallpaper* will carry a feature on the project it its July issue. All entries will be exhibited in London in July 2009, to coincide with the Wallpaper* issue. It is intended a book of the Project will be published, profits' to be donated to St Bride Library. At the end of the Project the collection will be donated to the St Bride Library. Prizes will be awarded for the top 3 entires, which will be assessed by a panel of judges from St Bride, Wallpaper* and Type.
SUBMISSIONS
All entries to be sent to Type LLP, 1st Floor The Toll House, The Bond 180-82 Fazeley Street, Birmingham B5 5SE.
Closing deadline extended to 30 April 2009.
via www.uktype.com
