On Designing Rempart

Tuesday, November 3, 2026, 6:30 - 8:30pm

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samples of the type printing the alphabet

Douglas Hayes provides an in-depth look at Rempart, an irreverant take on François Ganeau's Vendome, as part of the Herb Lubalin Lecture Series. Coming to life through film titles, over-inked specimens, candy bar wrappers, RPG games, castle diagrams, and culinary ephemera, Rempart is a reinterpretation that's familiar in spirit, but brand new in form.

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Douglas Hayes is a designer based in Buffalo, New York. He creates typefaces, wordmarks, logos, and lettering for brands, agencies, publishers, and his friends. He is a graduate of the Type@Cooper Extended Program, class of 2016.

Located in the Frederick P. Rose Auditorium, at 41 Cooper Square (on Third Avenue between 6th and 7th Streets)

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