Check Out the Museum’s Photo-Typesetting Collection at Chapman University!
FANATICAL MECHANICAL: PHOTO-LETTERING & THE PASTE-UP ERA
Guggenheim Gallery, Chapman University, Orange, CA
OPENING RECEPTION
Monday, February 6, 2012 5:30-9pm
Special Presentation by Rich Roat, House Industries
Come see the Museum’s collection of Photo-Typesetting equipment in all it’s glory at Chapman University’s showcase of the Photo-Lettering archives and typefaces from one of the leading type foundries and design studios in America, House Industries. The exhibition includes the materials and methods used in graphic design practice during the “Cold Type” or Phototypesetting Era. The show invites students to examine the mechanical nature of this period of the history of graphic design and the physical craftsmanship involved in the process.
Sponsored by House Industries, The International Printing Museum & Jeff Campbell, Lithographix
Coordinated by Rachelle W. Chuang
