About Face: Typography Symposium and screening of the movie Typeface May 29, 2010

This unique event focuses on the arts of letterpress printing and typography as they exist in America today.

The afternoon begins with the screening of two short documentaries: Typeface (2009, 59 minutes), a film about the Hamilton Wood Type Museum in Wisconsin which is home to the largest public repository of historic American wood type; and Jack Stauffacher, Printer (2002, 22 minutes), a short film about the San Francisco-based letterpress printer and book designer whose work is in the permanent collection of the Denver Art Museum.

The films will be followed by a panel discussion featuring respected printmakers from across the country, including Rick Griffith of MATTER, Denver; Jim Sherraden and Brad Vetter of Hatch Show Print, Nashville; Nick Sherman of The Font Bureau, Inc., Boston and woodtyper.com; and Tom Parson of Now It’s Up to You Publications, Denver.

SPONSORED BY: The Department of Architecture, Design and Graphics of the Denver Art Museum, Design Council, AIGA Colorado, Denver Film Society, MATTER and MOHAWK paper.

For more information contact Laura Bennison at 720.913.0101.

Cost:
$10 General admission
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