Our next Letterform Live is focused on fashion – come hear Grazia’s Caz Roberts, Patternity, Darkroom’s Rhonda Drakeford and New Future Graphic speak about their favourite typography from the catwalk and beyond.
From the instantly recognisable tangle of Yves Saint Laurent’s initials to Katharine Hamnett’s iconic monochrome slogan t-shirts campaigning for you to “Choose life”, there’s plenty of rich and varied typography in the world of fashion. Next week Grafik and Monotype will welcome some of the design industry’s fashion specialists to talk about their favourite examples, from African pattern right through to haute couture at Letterform Live on 1 July.
Rhonda Drakeford formed design studio Multistorey before going on to set up one of the capital’s most exciting design shops, Darkroom, with business partner Lulu Roper-Caldbeck. Rhonda’s designs are inspired by the Ndebele tribe and graphic geometric shapes, and Darkroom has proved so popular they've just launched a second shop inside glamorous department store Selfridges.
Grazia creative director Caz Roberts has the exciting challenge of laying out one of the UK’s top fashion magazines in just a week. From bespoke type to complement themed shoots to playful variations on the masthead’s central ‘Z’, Carolyn has a unique take on typography for fashion glossies.
Patternity is photographer and art director Anna Murray and surface and product designer Grace Winteringham. Together they head a creative studio that works with the likes of Celine, Clarks Originals, Levis, Nike and Selfridges to develop branding, films and installations inspired by stunning natural and man-made patterns.
London-based studio New Future Graphic has worked with shoe brand Clarks as well as clients like the V&A and Innocent Smoothies. They’ve got first hand experience of the fashion industry themselves as earlier this year they launched TEK, a stunning clothing brand developed in collaboration with Eley Kishimoto and Timothy Everest. We can’t wait to welcome Gareth and Marcus to Letterform Live.
All of our speakers will be bringing to light their favourite examples of type in the fashion world. Part of the joy of Letterform Live is that you never know what gems the speakers are going to unearth, but with such an excellent line-up we are incredibly excited.
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Grafik x Monotype present Letterform Live: FASHION
1 July 2015
6.30–9pm
Protein Studios, 31 New Inn Yard