Old Roots, New Energy: A typeface design between two continents With Nina Stössinger

Date: Thursday 2 April 2026

Location: St Bride Foundation and Online via Zoom

In-Person Timings (BST):
Doors/Bar: 18:15pm
Talk Starts: 19:00pm
Talk Ends: 20:30pm

In-Person Tickets: £9, £12, £14

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Online Time (BST): 19:00pm-20:30pm

Online Tickets: £7, £9

Please note: Ticket sales end at 4pm on the day of the talk. You will be emailed the Zoom link for by 6pm on the day of the talk. We will also send the link to all in-person ticket holders in case they are unable to attend and would like to join virtually.

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“Twelve years ago, traveling between the Netherlands, Belgium, and Norway, I started drawing a typeface that I have finally finished – in New York City. Cassis took inspiration from the visual environments I found on both sides of the Atlantic; this is its story, and a reflection on how relocating from the orderly visual environment of my native Switzerland to the joyful cacophony of New York City has changed my way of looking at, and thinking about, letterforms.” Nina Stössinger

Nina Stössinger (she/they) is the Senior Typeface Designer at Frere-Jones Type – an independent typeface design studio in Brooklyn – and a Critic for typeface design at Yale School of Art. In addition to several retail typefaces, Nina has designed or co-designed custom type for Microsoft, SAS Institute, the National Gallery of Art in Washington D.C., the New York City Football Club, and New York’s Metropolitan Transit Authority, among others. Nina previously served on the Board of Directors of the Type Directors Club and chaired the 22nd TDC Typeface Design Competition. Their work has won various awards and been exhibited internationally. Originally from Basel in Switzerland, they studied multi-media design in Halle/Germany, and typeface design in Zurich and The Hague. Nina enjoys the way type design sits at intersections of form and content, language, history, and technology; she aims to never stop learning.

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