Punches to pixels

Veronika Burian and Richard Ardagh on making type.

Location: St Bride Foundation, Bridewell Hall

Date: Tuesday 10 March 2026

Timings: 7pm-9:30pm

Tickets: £14, £12 members/concessions, £9 students/LLMs

Save money by buying tickets in advance – all door sales will be £16 (including concessions).

Doors open at 6:30pm. There will be a bar and a pop-up shop selling the latest issue, Eye 109, plus bargain back issues.

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Type Tuesday is Eye’s regular event for everyone interested in graphic design, typography, type design, photography, illustration and visual culture.

Our first event of 2026 features TypeTogether co-founder Veronika Burian, the subject of a Reputations interview in Eye 109, with Richard Ardagh talking about the new book Type Archived (about the Type Archive, the subject of ‘Archiving the Archive’ in Eye 106).

Veronika Burian, born in Prague, studied industrial design in Munich and then worked as a product designer in Vienna and Milan. Discovering her passion for type, she graduated with distinction from the MA in Typeface Design course in Reading, UK in 2003, and spent a few years as a typeface designer at DaltonMaag in London.

In 2006 Burian and fellow designer José Scaglione founded TypeTogether. Twenty years later, with fourteen core team members working around the world, TypeTogether is one of the leading independent type foundries. In addition to the development of tailored solutions for clients, the focus of TypeTogether’s font catalogue is on expressive contemporary typefaces. The foundry also supports young people with The Gerard Unger Scholarship, a typeface publishing programme named after their mentor and friend.

Richard Ardagh is a graphic designer and letterpress printer who founded his studio in 2006 after graduating from Central St Martins in 2003. He a partner of artisan letterpress print studio New North Press. A member of the Type Archive team at the time of its closure in 2023, Ardagh helped to ‘to ensure the institution’s legacy was preserved for posterity, through oral history, video, texts and an enormous catalogue.’ Founded in London in 1992 by Sue Shaw, the Type Archive brought together eight million artefacts that told the story of typography and printing. Ardagh's book Type Archived sheds new light on the organisation’s story.

The work of Veronika Burian and TypeTogether features in Eye 109 alongside creative director Kate Dawkins and photographer Michael Collins (both speakers at our last Type Tuesday: Light Fantastic), illustrator Laura Carlin, an article about the role of graphic design in promoting Ultra Processed Food (UPF). Regular elements include the Uncoated section with book and exhibition reviews, Type Reviews and Critique, the regular column by Rick Poynor, which in this edition covers Stereolab's latest album.

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All proceeds go to support St Bride Foundation.

Ticket is non-refundable, however you are welcome to offer your ticket to another person. Please contact [email protected] to change the name of your booking at least seven days prior to the event date.