CALENDAR OF EVENTS

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2002

March

Mar 13 - Apr 23:
"The Best of the Best" - a traveling exhibition of the Guild of Book Workers. This is a juried exhibition presenting 35 of the best works from the last part of the century. San Diego State University, Malcom A. Love Library, San Diego, CA The exhibition can be seen online at: http://palimpsest.stanford.edu/byorg/gbw

Mar 26-30:
International Conference "Typography and Visual Communication: History, Theory, Education" will take place on the premises of the University of Macedonia, Thessaloniki, Greece and will last from 26 until 30 June 2002. The aim of the Conference is to cover as many aspects related to typography and visual communication as possible, bringing together people from various fields and countries. During the five days various topics will be discussed, among which are the following: History of Greek (and not only Greek) printing, issues on the theory of typography, publishing and modern technologies, design & new media, bibliography, University printing and publishing, typographic education, calligraphy, writing and type design, etc. Apart from the speeches, exhibitions and workshops relevant to the topic are also to take place (font design, lithography, digital innovations etc). For further information visit: http://www.uom.gr/uompress/news.html.

April

April 29:
"Fonts and Logos" - Donald Young lecture, sponsored by Orange County (Calif) AIGA. To be held at the Irvine Lecture Hall at Chapman University at 7:00 PM. For more information and a map of the campus, see http://www.aigaoc.org/.

April 29 - May 3:
EuroBachoTeX 2002 - 13th Annual Meeting of the European TeX users and 10th Polish TeX Conference will take place in Bachotek (Brodnica Lake District), Poland. The theme of the conference is this year "TeX and beyond". For more information, see the web site at http://www.gust.org.pl/EuroBachoTeX/.

May

May 7 - Jun 27:
"The Best of the Best" - a traveling exhibition of the Guild of Book Workers. This is a juried exhibition presenting 35 of the best works from the last part of the century. San Francisco Public Library, San Francisco, CA The exhibition can be seen online at: http://palimpsest.stanford.edu/byorg/gbw

May 14 - Aug 23:
The Art Center College of Design in Pasadena is opening up its Archetype Press to the community. They have one of the best metal type collections on the west coast (the Vernon Simpson collection). Gerald Lange will be teaching a letterpress class there this summer through Art Center at Night: Finer Points in Letterpress Printing. This will be held on Tuesday evenings from 7-10 p.m. starting May 14 and going through August 13 (fourteen sessions). This is an accredited course offered to the public. Contact www.artcenter.edu/atnight for more information and registration.

May 24:
Abstracts due for the Symposium on Document Engineering 2002 (DocEng '02). For more information see http://www.documentengineering.org.

May 27 - Jun 7
The Rare Book School announces the schedule of its May/June 2002 courses, now available on their web site at http://www.virginia.edu/oldbooks/rbs/schedule.html.

May 29:
The next "GUTenberg Day" will be held on Wednesday, May 29, 2002, in Paris, ENST, 46 rue Barrault, 75013 PARIS (métro Corvisart). For more information, and electronic pre-registration (encouraged), please see the GUT web site.

May 31:
Full papers due for the Symposium on Document Engineering 2002 (DocEng '02). For more information see http://www.documentengineering.org.

June

June 3-7:
Short course entitled "Introduction to the History of Typography" by Archie Provan to be presented at The Rare Book School. See http://www.virginia.edu/oldbooks/rbs/schedule.html for more details.

July

July 12-14:
TypeCon2002, "The Medium and the Message" will be held in Toronto, Ontario, Canada - put on by the Society of Typographic Aficionados. For more information, see http://www.typecond2002.com.

July 15-19:
The Rare Book School first summer session course: "Electronic Texts in XML," taught by David Seaman, with Christine Ruotolo and Matthew Gibson (all of the University of Virginia Electronic Text Center). For more information see http://www.virginia.edu/oldbooks/rbs/schedule.html.

July 15-19:
The Rare Book School first summer session course: "Printing Design and Publication," taught by Greer Allen. For more information see http://www.virginia.edu/oldbooks/rbs/schedule.html.

Jul 26:
Acceptance notice for the Symposium on Document Engineering 2002 (DocEng '02). For more information see http://www.documentengineering.org.

August

Aug 30:
Revised articles due for the Symposium on Document Engineering 2002 (DocEng '02). For more information see http://www.documentengineering.org.

September

September 4-7:
The 23rd Annual Meeting and Conference of the TeX User Group, Stand up and be proud of TeX!, will be held in Trivandrum, Kerala, India. For more information, please visit http://www.tug.org.in/tug2002/

September 24-25:
The Friends of St Bride Printing Library are holding their First Annual Conference: "Twentieth Century Graphic Communication: technology, society & culture. Location: St Bride Printing Library, Bride Lane, Fleet Street, London EC4Y 8EE. For further information and an application form please visit St Bride's web site: http://www.stbride.org. Places are limited, so early booking is advisable.

October

October 14-17:
Book History Workshop. The Lyons-based Institut d'histoire du livre,in collaboration with the Rare Book School, is offering three advanced four-day courses in the fields of book and printing history. Courses on offer are: "Introduction to Analytical Bibliography" (tutor, Neil Harris - course in French); "Conservation and Study of Printed Ephemera" (tutor, Michael Twyman (course in English); and "Type, Lettering and Calligraphy, 1450-1830" (tutor, James Mosley (course in French). Classes will be held at the cole normale suprieure - lettres et sciences humaines (Lyon) with sessions at the Lyons printing Museum and the City library. For further information and evaluations of the first Book History Workshop (2001) see: http://ihl.enssib.fr/3_ecole/ecole_accueil2002eng.htm, or contact: Institut d'histoire du livre, c/o Mus e de l'imprimerie, 13 rue de la Poulaillerie, 69002 Lyon,France. Email: ihl@enssib.fr , URL: http://ihl.enssib.fr.

November

Nov 8-9:
Symposium on Document Engineering 2002 (DocEng '02), McLean, VA (near Washington, DC) will be held in conjunction with the 11th International Conference on Information and Knowledge Management (CIKM '02). For more information see http://www.documentengineering.org.


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