St Bride Foundation

November 25, 2025

This event, our 52nd Type Tuesday evening at St Bride Printing Library, features the spectacular design work of Kate Dawkins and the photography of Michael Collins, talking about his photobook The Nuclear Sublime. Editor John L. Walters and art director Simon Esterson will present a short preview of the issue’s contents.

Multi-BAFTA-winning video designer and creative director, Kate Dawkins is celebrated for her dynamic and immersive visual storytelling. She studied on the MA Visual Communication programme at Central Saint Martins before working at Intro for thirteen years and freelancing before founding Kate Dawkins Studio in 2016. Her notable projects include the BBC, the London Olympics 2012, Talvin Singh, Elton John, The Royal Edinburgh Military Tattoo, the Platinum Jubilee Opening and ceremonies marking Passchendaele, the Third Battle of Ypres and VE day.

Michael Collins has been working with photography for the last four decades, initially as a magazine picture editor, and then as a photography critic/writer, before becoming an art photographer. He is a photographer with a special interest in the ‘Record Pictures aesthetic’, who writes widely about photography. His books include Blind Corners. Essays on Photography (Notting Hill Editions, 2025) and The Nuclear Sublime (RRB Photobooks, 2024). He was picture editor at the Telegraph Magazine (1990-96) and has been visiting professor of photography at the University of Suffolk since 2018. Currently he is working on a series of photographs and a forthcoming exhibition about Port Talbot’s blast furnaces.

The work of Dawkins and Collins will both be featured in no. 109, the forthcoming edition of Eye, the international review of graphic design. There will also be pieces about Harri Peccinotti, Veronika Burian and TypeTogether, illustrator Laura Carlin and an article about the role of graphic design in promoting Ultra Processed Food (UPF). Regular elements include the extensive Uncoated section with book and exhibition reviews, Type Reviews and Critique, the regular column by Rick Poynor, which in this edition covers an unexpected example of music design.

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 6.30pm. There will be a bar and a pop-up shop selling the latest issue, Eye 108, plus bargain back issues.

Subscribe to the Eye Newsletter for more details.See also the Eye blog post about the recent ‘Type Tuesday: My favourite logo’ on 23 Sept 2025.

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.

All proceeds go to support St Bride Foundation.