Incipit Letterforms

Selected lectures and presentations
by Peter Bain

Principles of Typographic Design from an Armenian Perspective, as part of Armenian Letters panel, Diocese of the Armenian Church of America (Eastern); New York, NY; November 2006.

Digital Lettering: transporting an Ohio penman, through the 20th century, to present-day Manhattan, ATypI Conference; Lisbon, Portugal, 2006.

Behind the Fraktur Curtain, TypeCon; New York, NY, 2005.

Film studios for letters: the display type era in New York, Hidden Typography, Friends of St. Bride Library Conference; London, 2003.

Blacklettering, The Typographic Circle; London, 2003.

Empire/Futura/Shaver, Coastal Living, Time Inc., Birmingham, AL, 2003.

Film Type, American Printing History Association, New York, NY, 2003.

Additional presentations include: Guild of Bookworkers, 2007; Type Directors Club, 2002; Young & Rubicam, 2001; panelist at Quark Users International, 1993 and panelist at Folio:Show, 1992.

Guest teaching lectures: Fashion Institute of Technology, 2007; Fordham University, 2007; Rutgers University, Mason Gross School of the Arts, 2004; Parsons/The New School 2002, 1998; Art Institute of Atlanta, 2001; School of Visual Arts, 1995.