After a twelve year hiatus, the St Bride Foundation Conference is back this November; a conversazione celebrating innovation, inspiration, imagination and invention. Absolutely cracking lineup: Naïma Ben Ayed, Neville Brody, Jean Jullien, Naomi Kent, Alicia Martin, Bob Richardson, Venessa and Vanice Scott, Dominic Wilcox.

David Pearson’s rather natty poster for the conference, using type sourced from the St Bride Library.

MUBI movie poster columnist Adrian Curry looks at the art of the title treatment.

And Other Stories have unveiled a new series look for almost all its future titles, by Brazilian designer Elisa von Randow. In two minds about this new Fitzcarraldo-ing trend; it’s wonderfully elegant and holds definite shelf appeal … but I’m a book designer with a mortgage to pay and one-size-fits-all uniformity is my sworn enemy and must be destroyed at all costs.

New Star Wars means new opportunities to spot random old junk kitbashed into cool sci-fi gadgets. In last week’s Ahsoka: 1978 Galaxy Invader game becomes a droid head probe … thingy.

Still can’t decide if Irma Boom’s dinky The Architecture of the Book is absurd or inspired or both or neither.

Keeping a keen eye on Chris Ashworth’s instagram, currently teasing work being collated for a forthcoming monograph, due later this year. Love reading about the Swiss Grit alchemy behind iconic Ray Gun covers and spreads.

On the Book Cover Review, Jodi Hunt celebrates the design of Bobby Seale’s history of the Black Panthers, Seize the Time.

Last week’s Five Rectangles post for paid subscribers, a roundup of nice things that have strayed into my field of vision, including Sue Asbury’s Tunnocked art and Anthony Angel’s New York.