Designing information for everyday life, 1815–1914: Exhibition extended; catalogue now available

Monday 12 May 2014

Exhibition extended; catalogue now available

Our exhibition at the St Bride Library, London EC4, is extended: now open until Tuesday 16 February.

It will then be at the Department of Typography & Graphic Communication, University of Reading, until late March.

A catalogue, Designing information before designers, is available. This 48-page A5 booklet provides details of all of the documents displayed in the exhibition, with colour illustrations and extended descriptions of a selection of them.

£3 to visitors, or £4 including postage & packing within the UK. (Overseas, contact us by email: typography@reading.ac.uk)

Please make cheques payable to ‘University of Reading’, and tell us the postal address for delivery.

Send to:
Department of Typography & Graphic Communication
University of Reading
Reading
RG6 6AU

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NEWS & EVENTS

Past events:
February-April 2010: Project exhibition, ‘Designing information before designers’, Department of Typography & Graphic Communication, University of Reading.
March 2010: Panel contribution to the Open University's Book History & Bibliography Research Group's series on the history of reading.
March 2010: Mike Esbester & Paul Dobraszczyk presented papers at the Museum of English Rural Life, in their lunchtime seminar series.
January-February 2010: Project exhibition & public lecture, 'Designing information before designers', St Bride Library, London.
September 2009: Panel contribution on ‘Designing and reading forms of discourse’, atWriting Design, the annual conference of the Design History Society, University of Hertfordshire.
July 2008: Mike Esbester presented a paper at the Institute of English Studies conference, ‘Evidence of Reading, Reading the Evidence’.
January 2008: Mike Esbester presented a paper to the Design History Seminar at the University of Brighton.
October 2007: Paul Dobraszczyk & Mike Esbester gave papers at the annual conference of the International Association for the History of Transport, Traffic & Mobility.

PUBLICATIONS

Mike Esbester, ‘Nineteenth century timetables and the history of reading’, Book History 12 (2009): 156-85.

Mike Esbester, ‘Designing time: the design and use of nineteenth century transport timetables’,Journal of Design History 22, 2 (2009): 91-113.

Paul Dobraszczyk, ‘“Give in your account”: using and abusing Victorian census forms’, Journal of Victorian Culture 14 (2009): 1-25.

Paul Dobraszczyk, ‘Useful reading? Designing information for London's Victorian cab passengers’, Journal of Design History 21, 2 (2008): 121-41.

Paul Dobraszczyk, Mike Esbester & Paul Stiff, ‘Designing information for everyday life, 1815-1914’, The Ephemerist 141 (Summer 2008): 7-13.