# Graphic Design in the Digital Future: Lessons from the Renaissance Book #### calendar\_today Date and Time **September 10, 2016** 09:00AM - 06:00PM EDT #### pin\_drop Location **Library Lecture Room, Clapp Library, Wellesley College, Wellesley, MA** Free and open to the public. Advance registration required for afternoon workshops. For further information, and to register for workshops, e-mail Professor Sarah Wall-Randell (). Our media landscape is changing radically. New technologies offer new ways of reading and new modes of presenting texts. But how completely can we really break with old paradigms? Do the design principles of the printed book have a place in our digital future? To find an answer, this conference compares our ongoing technological revolution with an earlier one: the invention of the printed book itself in Renaissance Europe. Lectures, workshops, and discussions by historians and practitioners of printing, web design, and typography will enable the audience to apply lessons from the Renaissance to the design challenges of the present. Speakers and workshop leaders include Simran Thadani, '05 (Letterform Archive); Russell Maret (printer/type designer); Ken Botnick (Washington University in St. Louis and emdash design studio); Soe Lin Post (Public Affairs, Wellesley); Sohie Lee (Computer Science, Wellesley); Katherine M. Ruffin (Book Studies & Book Arts, Wellesley); and Ruth R. Rogers (Special Collections, Wellesley). Schedule: 9:00am Welcome 9:10am-11am Lectures Simran Thadani, "(Book) History Repeats Itself: Some Observations on Mise-en-Page, Medieval to Early Modern" Russell Maret, "Collaborating with the Past: Experiments in Alphabetical Dialogue" Ken Botnick, "The Book as Algorithm" 11:00am Refreshments 11:15am Soe Lin Post, Response 11:35am Discussion 12:30pm Lunch for participants 1:30-4:30pm Books on display in Special Collections 2:00pm Workshops I (Letterpress Printing and Web Design) 3:15pm Break 3:30pm Workshops II (Letterpress Printing and Web Design) 4:45pm-6pm Reception and Discussion Symposium organized by Sarah Wall-Randell, Associate Professor of English, and Simon Grote, Assistant Professor of History. Sponsored by Book Studies, the Program in Medieval-Renaissance Studies, the Departments of English, History and Computer Science, and Library and Technology Services. Generously supported by the Andrew W. Mellon Fellowship in Critical Bibliography at Rare Book School. Information also available on the Book Studies Events page at Wellesley College . Share on:- [ Facebook ](#) - [ Twitter ](#) - [ Linkedin ](#) Save: [ Add to calendar calendar\_today ](https://bookhistory.harvard.edu/node/876756/event-feed.ics) Copy link link