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Hatch Show Print Shop

The Hatch Show Print Shop in Nashville opened in 1879, and still designs and prints posters in the original letterpress and wood block style, hand inked, hand cranked, hand cut, and the customers are even called from a rotary phone. The Smithsonian has a traveling exhibition, American Letterpress: The Art of Hatch Show Print. The exhibition website and blog is here. A short video tour of the shop is [...]

Typedia

Typepedia is a community for education about, identifying of, and discussion of type. There's a great section with diagrams and examples of the different parts of letterforms: Their logo is wicked cool, too.

GastroType

More Herb Lubalin: His collaboration with Lou Dorfsman (Creative Director for CBS during its golden period) The Gastrotypographicalassemblage, was a monumental 3D wall that became an icon of modern typography. When CBS remodeled its quarters in the 90's, The Gastrotypographicalassemblage was dismantled and nearly discarded, but salvaged by designer Nick Fasciano.  The remains were recently moved from his Astoria basement to Atlanta's Center for Design Study, where it is [...]

Hamilton Wood Type Museum

Typeface, a documentary from Kartemquin Films, is making the festival circuit. A struggling rural Wisconsin printing factory-turned-museum, The Hamilton Wood Type Museum, opens its doors once a month to artisans from across the Midwest, who arrive for workshops in the nearly lost art of letter press. The website for the project is appropriately type-stylish! Limited-edition letterpress prints are for sale to support the film, including this one by Boston-based [...]

Luke Lucas

Luke Lucas is an Australian designer, typographer, and creative director of Lifelounge, a magazine and on-line portal for fashion, technology, art, photography, trash, travel and more. As a type designer, he prepared this typeface for an assignment from the NY Times: Luke's blog on Lifelounge.

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