The International Printing Museum http://www.printmuseum.org Where Printing History Comes to Life Mon, 30 Jan 2012 22:03:31 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 Check Out the Museum’s Photo-Typesetting Collection at Chapman University! http://www.printmuseum.org/2012/01/check-out-the-museums-photo-typesetting-collection-at-chapman-university/ http://www.printmuseum.org/2012/01/check-out-the-museums-photo-typesetting-collection-at-chapman-university/#comments Thu, 26 Jan 2012 22:45:41 +0000 International Printing Museum http://www.printmuseum.org/?p=5036
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

]]> http://www.printmuseum.org/2012/01/check-out-the-museums-photo-typesetting-collection-at-chapman-university/feed/ 0 The New Year’s Wood Type . . . http://www.printmuseum.org/2012/01/the-new-years-wood-type/ http://www.printmuseum.org/2012/01/the-new-years-wood-type/#comments Thu, 12 Jan 2012 01:07:03 +0000 International Printing Museum http://www.printmuseum.org/?p=5022
Read this month’s wood-type column to find out about a wood-type that uses only straight lines as edges for the letters.

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