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An Introduction to Letterpress
FGC-2459-A
T, Sep 21 - Dec 07
Hours: 06:30PM - 09:30PM
3.50 CEUs; $470.00
Additional Fees: $145.00
Course Status: Open
Location:
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Letterpress is versatile and adaptable, and mixes easily with other printmaking processes. Through hand typesetting vintage metal and wood type faces, students will gain a broader understanding of typography. Printing blocks and plates range from completely manual, hand-cut and collaged, to digital photopolymer plates. Accurate color registration is simple and easy. The quality of image can range from hard edge to feathered and painterly, and the relief impression adds a third dimension. Operation and maintenance of several different letterpresses is included. Each session begins with a demonstration followed by studio time to work on individual projects ranging from type-based graphic designs to fine art limited editions. Dikko Faust
Hand typographer; letterpress printermaker; founder, Purgatory Pie Press
Collections include: Museum of Modern Art; Tate Gallery, London; National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC; Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, DC; Walker Art Center, Minneapolis; New York Public Library
Retrospective exhibitions include: Harvard University, Cambridge, MA; Victoria & Albert Museum, London; The Metropolitan Museum of Art
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Letterpress: A Hands-on History of Typography
FGC-2477-A
M, Sep 20 - Dec 13
Hours: 06:30PM - 09:30PM
3.50 CEUs; $470.00
Additional Fees: $145.00
Course Status: Open
Location: TBA
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When is a font not a font? Where is the lead in leading? Learn typographic history by experience as you hand-set metal and wood type and print it through letterpress on both 19th-century clamshell platen presses and 20th-century cylinder presses. Movable type ended the European Dark Ages and ushered in the Renaissance, the Industrial Revolution and literacy for the masses. Further east, movable type spread Buddhism through China, Japan and Korea several centuries earlier. See how changing styles in graphic design, advertising and architecture have interacted down through the ages, through manuals, catalogs and other ephemera shown in this course. Dikko Faust
Hand typographer; letterpress printermaker; founder, Purgatory Pie Press
Collections include: Museum of Modern Art; Tate Gallery, London; National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC; Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, DC; Walker Art Center, Minneapolis; New York Public Library
Retrospective exhibitions include: Harvard University, Cambridge, MA; Victoria & Albert Museum, London; The Metropolitan Museum of Art
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