Workshop: Moveable Type Truck
- When? 2.5.12 @ 12:00pm
- Where? Burrito Gallery Parking lot, Downtown directions
- Type? Local Chapter Event
- Cost? $20 Members / $30 Non-Members (LIMITED SPACES AVAILABLE, capacity capped at 12 participants)
SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 5TH
Participation tickets are SOLD OUT
Spectator slots have just come available! Sign up at our Online Registration
I hope you are all as excited as I am about the Moveable Type Truck event on Sunday! We’ve had such interest in the event, we’re going to start an hour early, at noon on Sunday, Feb 4. This will allow us to re-open registration for spectators, who will be able to attend the event, but only pre-registrants will be able to participate in the hands-on typesetting portion of the event.
Spectators $5 for Members, $10 for Non-Members
Here’s how the event will be formatted:
First (1) hour – Overview of letterpress, print the pre-designed pieces (both pre-registrants and spectators)
Following 3 hours – Pre-registrants get to hand-set your own type in small groups (2-4 people). Spectators may stick around to watch, but won’t get to participate
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Spend the afternoon not only learning about letterpress, but get to run your own print in this hands-on workshop. Kyle Durrie of Power & Light Press is rolling into town in her Movable Type Truck, a 1982 Chevy step van that’s been converted into a fully functional letterpress print shop. The truck features built-in cabinets and workspace, a sign press from the mid 20th century, and an 1873 Golding Official No. 3 tabletop platen press.
Participants will each get to take home 2 letterpressed pieces: one set their with their own hand-set type, and one pre-set piece of artwork.
Quite literally, moveable type is the system of printing that uses moveable pieces of type – individual letters, numbers, characters – to reproduce the elements of a document. Invented in China, but popularized by Johannes Gutenberg in 1440, moveable type was like the internet for the 15th century, allowing widespread reproduction of printed materials like books, announcements, and advertising. Today, moveable type is associated with the art of letterpress printing. It is also a project involving 1982 Chevy step van and a few thousand pounds of lead, wood, iron, and love.
WE WELCOME TYPOPHILE AND ROAD WARRIOR, KYLE DURRIE:
My name is Kyle Durrie. I’m a letterpress printer from Portland, Oregon and the proprietor of Power and Light Press.
I am inspired by wobbly lines, history, overheard conversations, logs, whiskey, trains, the color brown, the Wild West, dogs, salt water, road maps, vintage office supplies, and beards, among other things. I also love crossword puzzles, swimming in creeks, green chile, adventures, and occupying small spaces.
But two of my favorite things in the world are printing and road trips. These two things kept getting in the way of one another in my life, though; they seemed mutually exclusive. I wanted to figure out a way to do both things at the same time.
And so here we are! What was once but a glimmer in my eye is now a reality.
For more information: http://type-truck.com/
