Will Holder: A Talk on Typography

Pratt GradComD presents Chris Evans and Alice Notely by Will Holder: a talk on typography, writing and speech.

About Will Holder:

Typographer Will Holder once read that oral tradition would lead us out of the post-modern condition, and has since become preoccupied with "publishing". More often than not, the publications do not always take the form of ink and paper, and a large part of the preoccupation is spent in finding suitable 'forms' for transmission. He sees conversation as a tool and a model for a mutual and improvised set of production conditions, where design is a responsive moment rather than a desired end. This approach has resulted in working relationships and continued conversations whereby the usual roles of commissioner, author, subject, editor, and designer are improvised and shared, as opposed to assigned and pre-determined.

Holder is editor of F.R.DAVID, a journal concerned with reading and writing in the arts (published by de Appel, Amsterdam). In May 2009 he co-curated "TalkShow" at the ICA – an exhibition / events programme dealing with speech and accountability. He is currently editing (with Alex Waterman) a biography of American composer Robert Ashley, for four or more voices (forthcoming); and rewriting William Morris’ "News from Nowhere" (1876) into a serially published guide for design education and practise – set in 2135.

Event poster designed by Ryan Waller

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