Organised by Future Strategy Club
Discover how a disruptive invention triggered ideas, protests, heresy, deceptions, social shifts and revolutions.
“An immersive experience of storytelling and discovery”, “Brilliant”, “Sublime & crazy tall tales from the past”, “Wonderful”, “Roaring success”.
You’ll Explore:
1. The Medieval Disrupter
Mechanisation of handwriting
2. The First Anti Establishment Protest
The typeface in your book reveals your allegiance
3. The Catalyst for Ideas
Renaissance Venice and books go viral
4. Pamphleteering Protestors
Fake news and government control in England in the 1600s
5. Revolutions
From coffee houses in Paris to the Declaration of Independence
6. The Invention of Advertising
Mass production and the Industrial Revolution
7. Today
What kind of change-maker are you
Sarah Hyndman Biography:
Sarah Hyndman is the founder of Type Tasting and the author of books including the bestselling Why Fonts Matter. She is a TEDx speaker, appears on TV and radio, and is a judge for the D&AD awards. She has run events at SXSW, The Design Museum, London Design Festival and created an immersive and multisensory installation at Adobe MAX in LA. She has published two studies in collaboration with Professor Charles Spence of the Crossmodal Research Laboratory at the University of Oxford and advises Heston Blumenthal on “flavour fonts