'The future
The Museum has received planning grants from the Getty Grant programme and the Department of Culture (through the National Museum of Science and Industry). The development project, designed by Marks Barfield Architects in association with Jasper Jacob Associates, will create a vibrant museum setting with permanent and temporary exhibition galleries, a range of visitor facilities, and collections storage to the highest international standards.'
The Type Museum
100 Hackford Road
London SW9 0QU
100 Hackford Road
London SW9 0QU
Telephone 020 7735 0055
http://www.typemuseum.org/
http://www.typecon.com
The second event that I came across was the TypeCon an event that is set to take place in 2012. The organisation is set up to promote typography.. Since 1998 they have a type conference every year across the US. The conference has visiting speakers as well as a selection of workshops that you can take part in. Below are some of the workshops that will be taking place;
Wednesday, July 6th
Full-Day Sessions
9:00 am – 4:30 pm
Create Typographic Posters Reflecting New Orleans’ Culture
Rafael Díaz Rey & Ketty Miranda Orozco — Universidad Autónoma del Caribe, Colombia
Cost: $100 + $15 materials fee
Maximum Participants: 15
Barranquilla is Carnival. Barranquilla lives because of the River. Barranquilla is a mix of cultures, sounds, colors, flavors and people. Very few cities in the world would fit this description. Still, this year’s TypeCon host city seems to do so perfectly. Through a crash-course in Barranquilla’s visual and musical aesthetic; taking a special focus on what was come to be known as the “Picó”, workshop attendants will dive into New Orleans. The result will be full-scale typographic posters reflecting New Orleans’ vast cultural imagery through a borrowed aesthetic.
It is recommended that participants bring their digital camera to the workshop.
Wednesday
Half-Day Sessions: Morning
9:00 am – 12:00 pm
Japanese Stab Bookbinding
Jenny LeBlanc — Hot Iron Press
Cost: $50 + $10 materials fee
Maximum Participants: 15
Discover some fun and easy glueless methods of bookbinding. Students will learn the basic 4-Hole Japanese Stab Binding and try a Noble Binding, a Hemp-Leaf Binding, and a Tortoise Shell Stitch. These attractive bindings uniquely join single sheets of paper together, allowing for the use of several different types or colors of paper. Students will employ strings and needles to complete these stab bindings, so experience sewing with a needle may prove helpful. Explore the transformation of paper and string into beautiful and useful works of art.
Having Fun With Blackletter
Vince Mitchell — Mystic Blue Signs
Cost: $50 + $10 materials fee
Maximum Participants: 15
Vince Mitchell of Mystic Blue Signs will present a hands-on Blackletter (Gothic) workshop in both large and small format. Beginners will start with a large wedge dipped in tempura paint, allowing them to be guided in making the basic forms for blackletter. We will then proceed to develop a more thorough knowledge through practice using steel nibs and ink. Each participant will be shown a detailed history of gothic scripts through related materials.
Web Typography (CSS & XHTML)
Viviana Cordova — University of Maryland
Cost: $50
Maximum Participants: 18
This workshop will engage many people who are not comfortable with using Web Typography. Many among the audience will be able to design for print. This workshop is for anyone who is willing to create a beautiful piece of design using CSS and HTML. In the workshop the audience will be able to manipulate typography easily. I will use some of the examples used from the Web Typography book and website.
Requirements: Workshop attendees must bring their own laptops.
Software required to be pre-installed:
Wednesday, July 6th
Half-Day Sessions: Afternoon
1:30 pm – 4:30 pm
Hands-on CSS & CSS3 Typography
Marcin Wichary — Google
Cost: $50
Maximum Participants: 20
This is a hands-on workshop allowing the participants to get familiar with CSS and CSS3 properties having to do with typography. We will learn the basics and also a number of tricks of the trade. The entire workshop is an interactive, augmented HTML5 learning experience that practices what it preaches and makes experimenting with code simpler and more pleasant than ever. Students will go through basic CSS properties having to do with typography (font-size, letter-spacing, line-height, etc.) and also new CSS3 properties (text-shadow, columns, etc.). We will also talk a bit about using Google Web Fonts API and @font-face. The workshop will conclude with a larger real-life design exercise combining all the properties taught.
Requirements: Workshop attendees must bring their own laptops.
Software required to be pre-installed:
- Updated Chrome, Safari, and Firefox browsers
Typography Using Processing & Illustrator
Viviana Cordova — University of Maryland
Cost: $50 + $5 Tutorial PDF
Maximum Participants: 18
This workshop will engage many people who are not comfortable with programming. After the workshop the audience will be able to design using Processing and will be able to save their files, posters or animations using Typography. This workshop is for anyone who is willing to create a beautiful piece of design using Processing. I will use some of the techniques used in the book Type and Code: Processing for Designers by Yeo-hyun Ahn and Viviana Cordova.
Requirements: Workshop attendees must bring their own laptops.
Thursday, July 7th
Full-Day Sessions
9:00 am – 4:30 pm
Full day workshops break for lunch from 12:00 pm to 1:30 pm.
Glass Gilding
John Downer & Leonard Otillio
Cost: $100 + $50 materials fee*
Maximum Participants: 16
At TypeCon in Minneapolis, and again at TypeCon in San Francisco, Leonard Otillio and John Downer teamed up to demonstrate expert glass gilding, a skill long considered to be the most exacting in the sign painting trade. This year in New Orleans (home town of Leonard) they will lead a day-long class in which the participants will be able to try their hands at glass gilding. Each student will be able to work separately on a pane of glass, which will later serve as a personal souvenir and memento.
* Materials fee is higher because we will be using 23 karat gold.
Letterpress Maze Book
Angela Driscoll — Loyola University, New Orleans
Cost: $100 + $15 materials fee
Maximum Participants: 10
This workshop is an introduction to letterpress. We will be working from the Loyola University type collection. A small writing exercise will get us started with text for a folded book. The entire process from using a composing stick, hand-setting lead type, locking up the press bed, and printing will be covered. This is a hands-on workshop with full participation in the process. Each participant will take home a copy of the collaborative letterpress maze book made from the day’s efforts.
Prior letterpress experience is not required.
Fontographer Basics
Jim Gallagher — FontLab
Cost: $100
Maximum Participants: 20
Presentation and hands-on-tutelage of the basic features of Fontographer. Students will create their first font file while exploring the eccentricities of typography and the creation of elegant character shapes.
Requirements: Workshop attendees must bring their own laptops.
http://woodtype.org/
About
1.5 Million Pieces of Wood Type
The Hamilton Wood Type and Printing Museum is the only museum dedicated to the preservation, study, production and printing of wood type. With 1.5 million pieces of wood type and more than 1,000 styles and sizes of patterns, Hamilton's collection is one of the premier wood type collections in the world. In addition to wood type, the Museum is home to an amazing array of advertising cuts from the 1930s through the 1970s, and all of the equipment necessary to make wood type and print with it, as well as equipment used in the production of hot metal type, tools of the craft and rare type specimen catalogs.
Located between the East and West Twin Rivers on Lake Michigan, the Hamilton Manufacturing Company was the largest wood type producer in the country, when virtually everything was letterpress printed. The company was founded in 1880, and in addition to wood type, the company has manufactured medical office furniture, light tables, the first gas powered clothes dryer (really!) and more; now in its 130th year, the company produces steel lab equipment.
Thanks to Our Volunteers
Established and managed by the Two Rivers Historical Society, the Hamilton Wood Type and Printing Museum is in its twelfth year as a living museum. The Museum is operated by volunteers of the Two Rivers Historical Society, many of whom are part of the history of Hamilton, as former employees. We are quite lucky to have among them former type cutters, trimmers, and sales staff, who are helping us tell the story!
Hamilton volunteers host educational demonstrations, field trips, workshops and offer opportunities for artists, printers, historians and other scholars to experiment with this vast wood type collection.
"We have benefited from the life experiences of the many people who actually made the exquisitely detailed wood type and who still reside in Two Rivers," says Jim Van Lanen, Sr., the founder of the Museum. "These people are in their 70s and 80s. They show us, from memory, how the type workshop really operated - the old secrets that make these extraordinarily beautiful and distinctively American alphabets."
A Working Museum
The Museum, at 40,000 square feet, is no doubt one of the largest fully functional workshops in the world. Not only do the thousands of visitors who come through every year get to see how wood type was made at the foundry, students, artists, typographers and designers visit to take workshops and actually put their hands on and use the collection to create works of art and scholarship in our pressroom at the Museum. To be able to use the type and cuts and a press to make a print can broaden a design student's understanding of typography and color and layout, and artists make work with wood type that would have surprised and delighted Ed Hamilton, the company's founder.
We are housed in an original Hamilton building that dates from 1927.
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