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The reason I get up in the morning
30 Oct 2024 ore 18:30 - 20:00
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The reason I get up in the morning
Type talk with David Quay
Type talk with
David Quay
Tipoteca Auditorium
Wednesday, October 30, 2024
6.30pm
The conference will be in English.
Free entrance
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0423 86338
eventi@tipoteca.it
«Although technology has changed, The Foundry Types’ attitude to type design has not. We still believe that type should have a good story, reason, and philosophy behind it. The Foundry Types’ philosophy eschews trendy and gimmicky ideas. We try to keep the craftsmanship ideals that are embedded in our craft that go back through the centuries. A computer is just an end tool as was the burin in the hands of the silversmiths that made the first incunabula fonts in the 14th century. A pencil is still one of the best tools in the studio!».
These are the words of David Quay, the host of Tipoteca’s Type Talk scheduled for Wednesday 30 October at 6.30 pm.
In his career as a designer, he has experienced the many technological evolutions that have enabled him to create typefaces and develop his professional interest in lettering and graphics. Yet, the quality of design remains firmly anchored to a few essential fundamentals: study, practice, experience, curiosity.
David, as the title says, will share with the audience ‘the reason why I get up in the morning’. It will certainly be a pleasure to get to know the work and interests of a designer, a passionate calligrapher, particularly focused on lettering and typography.
David Quay (London, 1948) is a graphic designer, type designer, typographer, and teacher. Originally from London and now resident in The Netherlands, David is one of the principals of The Foundry a UK-based type design partnership. He has also designed fonts for Letraset, International Typeface Corporation (ITC), and H. Berthold AG, AG.
David studied graphic communication at Ravensbourne College of Art & Design from 1963–67. For the next seven years he worked in various leading London design companies as a packaging and graphic designer. From 1975 he worked as a freelance designer specialising in lettering and logotypes, until forming Quay & Gray with Paul Gray, in 1983. He started his own company David Quay Design in 1987, to concentrate on graphic and typographic design. He also began to design his first text typefaces which were subsequently released by the International Typeface Corporation (ITC) in New York and H Berthold AG in Germany. Since the late 1980s he has worked in partnership with Freda Sack on a broad range of type projects. The natural progression for their collective skills and experience was setting up an independent type foundry, and in 1989 they co-founded The Foundry, to design, manufacture and licence their exclusive typefaces. As a partnership their commissions have included bespoke typefaces, marks and logotypes.
David Quay has an Instagram page (typetourist) on which he regularly posts the photos he takes of the most peculiar and interesting old signs, signposts and house numbers he encounters during his ‘typetourist’ tours.
Now, in 2024, David Quay is still designing new typefaces for The Foundry Types alongside former Foundry colleague Stuart de Rozario. The Foundry Types specialises in the creation, production, and licensing of new retail, bespoke typefaces, and typographic brand assets for corporate use.