Briefs

Thursday 7 November 6.30pm

If signs grab you, you might be interested in this Sign Design Society event. Railtrack’s architecture and design manager Clive Brandon and signing and graphics co-ordinator Barry Gray discuss the railway architect’s view of signing.

Venue: Henrion Ludlow & Schmidt, 12 Hobart Place, London SW1.

Details: Turn up on the door.

Monday 4 November

One for your bookshelf. Thames and Hudson today publishes Mixing Messages: Contem- porary Graphic Design in North America. Edited by Ellen Lupton, curator of the Cooper-Hewitt in New York, it ties in with an exhibition at the design museum and covers 15 years of typography, identities and new media. Price is 18.95.