Free Admission!

Grant MacEwan University’s Design Studies program is proud to announce "The Pleasures of the Text Made Tangible", a public lecture by Robert Bringhurst, the author of The Elements of Typographic Style. We hope that you are able to make it to this event, both to show your support for the MacEwan Design Program and for the insight and knowledge to be gained from the author of such an influential and inspiring work.

Robert Bringhurst was born in Los Angeles in October 16, 1946, and spent his years growing up in the border provinces and states between Western Canada and the United States. He acquired a BA from Indiana University in 1973 and an MFA from the creative writing program at UBC in 1975, where he later taught. Bringhurst collaborated with West Coast artist Bill Reid on a book of Raven Myths, and Bringhurst later wrote a book about Reid’s sculpture. Bringhurst is known not only as a poet but also in the fields of typography, linguistics, art history and Native studies. He received the Macmillan Prize for Poetry in 1975 and currently resides in Vancouver.

It has been called ‘The Typographers Bible’ by the likes of Hermann Zapf—and with good reason. The Elements of Typographic Style is the authoritative and masterful work on typography by poet and writer, Robert Bringhurst” (D. Withrington).