Graphic Design in the Digital Future: Lessons from the Renaissance Book
Sat, Sept. 10, 9am-6pm
Library Lecture Room, Clapp Library

Free and open to the public. Advance registration required for afternoon workshops. For further information, and to register for workshops, e-mail Professor Sarah Wall-Randell (swallran@wellesley.edu).

Our media landscape is changing radically. New technologies offer new ways of reading and new modes of presenting texts. But how completely can we really break with old paradigms? Do the design principles of the printed book have a place in our digital future? To find an answer, this conference compares our ongoing technological revolution with an earlier one: the invention of the printed book itself in Renaissance Europe. Lectures, workshops, and discussions by historians and practitioners of printing, web design, and typography will enable the audience to apply lessons from the Renaissance to the design challenges of the present.

Speakers and workshop leaders include Simran Thadani, ’05 (Letterform Archive); Russell Maret (printer/type designer); Ken Botnick (Washington University in St. Louis and emdash design studio); Soe Lin Post (Public Affairs, Wellesley); Sohie Lee (Computer Science, Wellesley); Katherine M. Ruffin (Book Studies & Book Arts, Wellesley); and Ruth R. Rogers (Special Collections, Wellesley).

Schedule and additional information also available on the Book Studies Events page. 

Symposium organized by Sarah Wall-Randell, Associate Professor of English, and Simon Grote, Assistant Professor of History. Sponsored by Book Studies, the Program in Medieval-Renaissance Studies, the Departments of English, History and Computer Science, and Library and Technology Services. Generously supported by the Andrew W. Mellon Fellowship in Critical Bibliography at Rare Book School.