For the past 16 years, Tim Brookes has been searching the world for the least-used and most marginalized forms of writing--and then advocating for them and their communities, carving them in beautiful woods, and asking questions like "Why would someone want to destroy an alphabet?" "What happens when a people can no longer use their script?" and the most deceptive of all, "What is writing, anyway?"
Letterform Lectures are a public aspect of the Type West postgraduate program. The series is co-presented by the San Francisco Public Library, where events are free and open to all.