TDC Beatrice Warde Scholarship

While going through their archives, the Type Directors Club discovered that Beatrice Warde was its first female member. To honor her memory, the Type Directors Club has named a scholarship after her.

Beatrice Warde (1900-1969) was a typographer, a writer (sometimes under the pseudonym Paul Beaujon) and expert of typography, a teacher, and the editor of the Recorder and the Monotype Newsletter. She is famous for her essay on typography “The Crystal Goblet”, first delivered as the speech “Printing Should Be Invisible ” in 1930.

The criteria for the scholarship extends across disciplines from design criticism to type design and graphic design, since Beatrice Warde was a writer and educator who helped promote Monotype products. Just as Beatrice encouraged the best use of technology, the candidate’s work should demonstrate the application of typography to current media, not only print.

The deadline for students to submit their application and samples is February 23, 2018.

https://www.tdc.org/beatrice-warde-scholarship/

See also this older post: http://feminismandgraphicdesign.blogspot.be/2012/03/beatrice-warde-and-crystal-goblet.html

International Gender Design Network

A two-day conference on gender and design

The New School

Thursday 28 – Friday 29 March 2013

www.igdn.blogspot.co.uk

Yerim and Her Pink Things from: The Pink & Blue Project (2005)  by JeongMee Yoon

A Strange Way to Look at a House

If Otto Neurath has a monograph dedicated to him (Otto Neurath – The Language of Global Polis), the work of Marie Neurath deserves at least a mention (especially since she is hardly mentioned at all in the book above). She trained as a mathematician and worked on developing a system for visualising social information, which she named Isotype (International System Of TYpographic Picture Education) with long-time collaborators Otto Neurath and Gert Arntz.


Isotype Revisited
Hyphen Press

"We have all been inside a house, but how different it looks when it is cut through with our magic knife!" spread from book If you could see inside (Marie Neurath, 1948, from the 'Wonders of the modern world' series, London: Max Parrish)

How long do animals live? from Compton's Pictures Encyclopedia, Chicago, 1940 edition

Dutch Female Designers

One of the results from a 3-day workshop run by Charlotte Cheetham of Manystuff at KASK, Ghent (February 2012) was this project by students Annelies Derudder, Deirdre Lewis, Nele Winckelmans, and Rachel Hagen. ‘We only want to make clear that the position of the women in fine arts is still a little underrated.’ More info on version-originale-workshops.tumblr.com/KASK2012

The Woman’s Building

‘In 1973, CalArts teachers artist Judy Chicago, graphic designer Sheila Levrant de Bretteville and art historian Arlene Raven were finally finished with trying to offer feminist education in a male-dominated institution like CalArts. That year they quit CalArts and founded the Feminist Studio Workshop (FSW)...’ Read on

The Women's Graphic Center

In 1981 the Woman’s Building founded the Women’s Graphic Center Typesetting and Design, a for-profit business designed to strengthen their finances and support the artistic endeavours of the Building. They provided phototypesetting, graphic design, production and printing services. 

The Woman’s Building was founded in 1973 by artist Judy Chicago, graphic designer Sheila Levrant de Bretteville and art historian Arlene Raven.

More information on Wikipedia 

Women in Design: The Next Decade – A conference for women who work with public visual and physical forms, Mar. 20 at the Woman's Building. Forms part of: Woman's Building records 1970-1992