May 3 @ 7:30 pm – 9:30 pm
Professors, experts, and storytellers giving thought-provoking lectures in LA bars.
Location: The Three Clubs 1123 Vine St. Los Angeles, CA 90038
Lecture: “Typography Unbound: When Design Refuses to Behave”
Speaker: Prof. Jaylen Wang
Join us for a provocative evening with Prof. Jaylen Wang as we explore what happens when typography refuses to behave. Instead of treating type as a tool for pure clarity and efficiency, this lecture dives into the strange, political, and often radical history of illegible typography—from early avant-garde experiments and countercultural posters to AI-generated fonts, machine-readable type, and designs made for non-human readers.
We’ll examine moments when illegibility becomes a deliberate strategy: to slow readers down, exclude or protect communities, resist surveillance, confuse machines, or communicate beyond language. Along the way, we’ll touch on graphic design, poetry, interface design, accessibility studies, and artificial intelligence.
Topics include:
• Illegibility as expression, refusal, or care
• Typography for machines, bots, and algorithms
• AI-encountered type and synthetic reading
• Accessibility versus opacity
• Who typography is for—and who gets left out
No prior typography knowledge required. Drinks encouraged. Reading optional.
Get a drink, connect, and learn at Lectures on Tap!
Agenda
7:30 PM – Doors open: find a seat (open seating!), order food & drinks, and expect a bar line—arriving early is key.
7:55 PM – Host introduction
8:00 PM – Lecture begins
8:45 PM – Audience Q&A
9:00 PM – Have 1:1 time with the speaker, mingle with fellow guests, and order another round
9:30 PM – Wrap up.
