TYPOGRAPHIC CIRCLE

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The Typographic CirclePO Box 110128 Aldersgate StreetLondonEC1A 4AE

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n Honorary Fellow of the Calligraphy and Lettering Arts Society, Manny Ling is a highly regarded freelance designer, typographer, calligrapher and lettering artist.

Since working as a digital typeface designer for Letraset in the early 90s, he has gone on to exhibit, teach workshops and lecture around the world,including the London College of Printing, and is currently a programme leader for the MA Design: Multimedia and Graphics programme at the University of Sunderland.

Alongside this, he is Director of the International Research Centre for Calligraphy.

practicing Western calligraphy

his work, enjoying the contrasts and contradictions of East meets West, Old meets New, Energy meets Stillness.

In this exclusive, members only

and traditional processes of East Asian calligraphy and its relation-ship with digital media in the West, and discuss how integra-ting these traditions can be developed into new approaches to work.

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Being a Chinese person practising Western calligraphy

my life. I like the contrasts and contradictions in my work: East

and West, Old and New, Energy and Stillness. Glass which can be hot and cold,

liquid and solid, transparent and opaque has always held a

fascination for me.

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“Over the years I have developed a variation of the Italic Hand that allows me to write more fluently and quickly. This process involves getting rid of the ‘serifs’ at the beginning and the ending of letter strokes”

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