Eating, sleeping, and breathing typography
August 19, 2007From time to time, we use this space to share some worthwhile information that was previously dispensed at one of the School of Visual Concepts’ professional development workshops. That would be next to impossible if we tried to recap all that went at SVC this summer in connection with TypeCon 2007. The school hosted 7 workshops for this international celebration of typography (appropriate since it’s organized by the Society for Typographic Aficionados). To take a peek at some of the things that went on — especially in the SVC letterpress shop — visit our Flickr photo page.
Carl Montford, with the Reliance Handpress he recently restored, and Jenny Wilkson, manager of SVC’s letterpress shop. If you’d like to read about how this press was returned to a useful life, check out this wonderful little booklet, Resurrection of a Reliance, written, photographed, and designed by Juliet Shen.
Great to see Uncle Carl doing what he loves to do. As a young child in the early 1970’s he had this monstrous contraption (or so it seemed to me at the time)in his basement in Wichita, Ks. He was never too busy to show me how it worked or the almost magical things it was capable of producing. The Montford Press has remained with me all these years, and with it, the awe of a child transfixed with the inner workings of a machine (any machine) that seemed so simple yet produced work so complex and beautiful. Thanks Uncle Carl, Your Nephew Kyle