This two day, in-person workshop takes place at CBA on Saturday, July 27th, from 12:00 to 3:00 pm and Sunday, July 28th, from 12:00PM to 4:00PM ET.
- Saturday, July 27th, 2024, from 12:00PM –3:00PM ET
- Sunday, July 28th, 2024, from 12:00PM – 4:00PM ET
Please Note: Registration for this workshop closes on July 20th, 2023 at 11:59 pm.
About the Workshop:
Architectural ornament/signage and typography have had a symbiotic relationship for centuries – especially the 19th to the mid-twentieth. In this class, we will talk about and observe different examples of text in urban and architectural environments through a presentation, a walking tour, and a hands-on printing exercise inspired by what we observed!
Throughout class, students will gain inspiration from buildings, manhole covers, CBA’s collection of type borders/elements and more! Students will go home with relief rubbings made during the walking tour as well as prints made on our Vandercook letterpress equipment. Then you can go home and document your own neighborhood’s archi-type!
To create prints based off of the inspiration gathered from the walking tour, this workshop will utilize the Vandercook letterpress equipment. No experience in typesetting or printing on the Vandercooks is required for this course, all experience levels are welcome!
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About Dikko Faust
Dikko Faust founded Purgatory Pie Press when he was doing grad work with Walter Hamady at University of Wisconsin in 1977. He taught Letterpress and Typography at the Center for Book Arts, as well as School of Visual Arts, Cooper Union, Princeton, Rutgers, and workshops throughout the US, Canada, England, and Germany. In these workshops, he also offers his services as Type Detective, identifying UTF’s (unidentified typefaces). For recreational reading, he prefers old type catalogs. He did extensive research for Esther K Smith‘s Rizzoli reprint of William H Page’s Specimens of Chromatic Wood Type, Borders &c. Purgatory Pie Press has exhibited at Metropolitan Museum of Art, Victoria & Albert Museum, Museum of Modern Art, Harvard University, and many other art centers throughout the world, including more than a dozen Center for Book Arts exhibitions– starting with CBA’s 5 year anniversary exhibition.
All images courtesy of the instructor.
