sfwalker – Lettering Printing and Graphic Design Collections

The Historic Presses Workshop

A new printing workshop has been set up in the Department of Typography & Graphic Communication so that students and researchers can use and study an unusual and distinctive collection […]

30 years of ephemera studies at Reading

The University’s renowned Centre for Ephemera Studies (CES), based in Typography & Graphic Communication, celebrates its 30 year anniversary. CES includes hundreds of thousands of printed ephemera, which stimulate research […]

Review of 2024: Lettering, Printing and Graphic Design Collections

Conferences, workshops and seminars The LPGDC featured in the SHARP conference collections sessions. As well as the introduction of the lithographic pole press, other sessions featured the Type Design Collection. […]

Isotype and publishing

An exhibition featuring work by the Isotype Institute relating to the publication of ‘soft propaganda’ during the Second World War, information books for children, and publishing in British colonial West […]

John Miles

We were sorry to hear of the death of John Miles, a long-standing friend of the Department of Typography & Graphic Communication, and a one-time External Examiner for our undergraduate […]

Flying high: a hundred years of airlines in Britain

We were delighted to welcome the Friends of the University to look at the Elizabeth Greig Collection of civil aviation ephemera. The first UK national airline, Imperial Airways, was created […]

Review of 2023: Lettering, Printing and Graphic Design Collection

2023 has seen continued and growing interest in the Lettering, Printing and Graphic Design Collection (LPGDC) for research, outreach and education. Highlights include visits from academic researchers from overseas, the […]

Ephemera tells us about Reading

Thanks to funding from the Friends of the University we have digitised material from our collections in the Centre for Ephemera Studies that tell us something of the history of […]

Type design collection

What was previously the Non-Latin Type Collection is now part of the Type Design Collection. The Type Design Collection also includes type specimens, metal and wooden type and type drawings […]

Cultures of the book summer school

The Centre for Book Cultures and Publishing Summer School on 20 and 21 June 2023 combines lectures, informal talks and discussions inspired by collections and archives at the University of […]