Friend of EoD Sarah Hyndman is taking her regular Type Tasting events to a new level this year, with a delightfully boozy twist. Wine, Type & Culture is “the story of a hacked wine press, the original disruptors, entrepreneurial perseverance, explorers, inventors, revolutions, nostalgia, authenticity, and our vision for the future of type and wine based on trend predictions,” she says. Attendees will take part in a series of games and activities based around sound, taste, and smell with five “delicious wines,” she assures us. “Type history is brought to life as you find out how typefaces not only changed the world but that their power still resonates. For example, parallels can be seen in the social change and revolutions triggered when print first proliferated, and in the debate about the influence of social media today.”
For those more into gin that vino, there’s Gin & Type Tasting: The story of fonts, civilization & gin. Here’s the blurb: “Find out how the stories of gin and type are inextricably entwined across trade routes, the history of printing, and cultural tastes. From the early days of imported Dutch Jenever and the Dutch typefaces (these influenced William Caslon and were used for the Declaration of Independence), later when tea became the drinking obsession of the English, to the minimal and refined 1950s styles of Mad Men dry martinis, Modernism, and Helvetica.”