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Hamilton Type Museum Likely to Be Evicted!

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Just a few days after the Hamilton Wood Type & Printing Museum‘s annual Wayzgoose type conference in Two Rivers, Wisconsin, Bill Moran, the museum’s artistic director, announced that the invaluable repository of typographic history will likely be evicted from an original Hamilton building that dates to 1926. “We don’t know where we’re moving to and we don’t know how we’re going to get there,” he told me.

Read more at Imprint: Help Save the Hamilton Wood Type Museum

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The 100 Best Typefaces of All Time

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Where do your favorite fonts rank? Did they make the list?

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American Letterpress: The Art of Hatch Show Print

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From the Smithsonian traveling exhibition American Letterpress: The Art of Hatch Show Print, this video shows you the art of letterpress printing as practiced by a 125-year-old Nashville, TN, print shop. Learn why only a handful of letterpress shops still exist in American and why this one is so influential in the music and entertainment industry. A great look at the craft.

Now Hear This!

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Reverting to Type

Letterpress in London

Reverting to Type from Lima Charlie on Vimeo.

Curated by Graham Bignell & Richard Ardagh, Reverting to Type will showcase the work of twenty contemporary letterpress practitioners from around the world.

10th–24th Dec 2010 and 4th–22nd Jan 2011
Standpoint Gallery, London.

For more information see New North Press.

via I Love Typography

Now Hear This!

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TYPEFACE: The Movie

It’s a Thursday afternoon and all is quiet in Two Rivers, Wisconsin. Main Street is virtually empty, and there are “for rent” signs in several shop windows. In the last few years, the un-employment rate has been consistently on the rise in the region. Factories are leaving the heartland for cheaper locales and the little town of Two Rivers is struggling to re-invent itself. Jim VanLanen, one of the town’s most industrious entrepreneurs, began developing small museums as a way to bring tourists and industry to the area.

Typeface, Kartemquin’s latest documentary in progress, will bring this fascinating junction of historical and contemporary, as well as rural and urban America together for enjoyment and contemplation. This film will be of interest to art and graphic design enthusiasts, to teachers as an educational resource, and to anyone looking for a film about perseverance and preservation in the heart of America.

C is for Calling Cards

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Once upon a time, a long long time ago, before computers and typewriters,  InDesign and Photoshop,  before Quark and PageMaker, even before paste up, we had letterpress. We had metal type and wood type, and typecases and leading. Ornaments, borders, and initial caps. Where all of the individual letters were set by hand. (I’m getting weak in the knees just thinking about it!) Lucky for us, we still have Starshaped Press. Nostalgia is the order of the day at this Chicago based design/press house. Check it out. Drink it in. Drool.