The Occasional Club: Multi/Lingual/Book/Typography

The Occasional Club is a club open to the ECU community, with a focus on the sharing of collections, including ephemera, books, objects, and otherwise cool artifacts!

Join us between 11:30am-12:30pm on Thursday, April 17, in the Communication Design Studio (room c3215) for Multi/Lingual/Book/Typography! Focusing on books and novels that make use of interesting typographic presentations— including texts that employ these techniques in a multilingual manner, and those that simply make use of unorthodox presentations (ever heard of House of Leaves?). With books from the collections of Gabe Wong, Charlie (Liyang) Zha, Abi Simatupang, Brendan Denesiuk, and more!

Organized by a team at the Occasional Press and The Stationery Project,The Occasional Club is a free and agile space that expands on our Ephemera Afternoons of the past.

Our first event on January 23 focused on Children’s Picture Books, featuring vintage picture books (storybooks and non-fiction) from the collections of Katherine Gillieson and Morgan Martino, while our second meeting on February 6th had us looking at Food and Cooking Ephemera, with vintage cookbooks and old kitchen gadgets, alongside a collection of found grocery lists, from the collections of Gabe Wong and Morgan Martino.

Our third meeting on March 13 had us looking at Vintage Games & Objects of Play, with physical copies and ephemera from tabletop roleplaying games, card games, board games, and vintage video games (including Chrono Trigger!) from the collections of Brendan Tang, Katherine Gillison, Brendan Denesiuk,and Morgan Martino.

Our fourth meeting, on March 27 was themed around Visualizing the Sciences, with books about ecology, biology, chemistry, physics, and more, from the collections of Katherine Gillison and Brendan Denesiuk. It was a fun opportunity to learn something new (although we all spent most of our time just flipping through them, looking for cool photos).

You are welcome to drop in and take a look, and eventually participate by sharing something of your own! It’s a nice, relaxing activity and a nice chance to spend your lunch hour checking out cool things.

Be sure to follow us on Graphic Research (https://www.instagram.com/graphicresearch_ecu/) and The Stationery Project (https://www.instagram.com/thestationeryproject_ecu/).

We hope to see you there!