Typeface Official Trailer

In rural Wisconsin, a lone employee waits in a cavernous old museum for visitors to come. A few individuals straggle in every few days and then, come Friday, the museum fills with life. Machines hum, presses print, artists buzz about. One weekend each month, the quiet of Two Rivers is interrupted as carloads of artisans drive in from across the Midwest. The place comes alive as printmaking workshops led by, and filled with, some of the nation's top design talent descend on the sleepy enclave.

In a time when people can carry computers in their pockets and watch TV while walking down the street, Typeface dares to explore the twilight of an analog craft that is freshly inspiring artists in a digital age. The Hamilton Wood Type Museum in Two Rivers, WI personifies cultural preservation, rural re-birth and the lineage of American graphic design. At Hamilton, international artisans meet retired craftsmen and together navigate the convergence of modern design and traditional technique. But the Museum¹s days may be numbered. What is the responsibility of artists and historians to preserve a dying craft? How can rural towns survive in a shifting industrial marketplace where big-box retailers are king?

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UK Premiere in London January 21, 7:00 pm St Bride Library Bride Lane Chicago premiere! January 29, 8:00 pm Gene Siskel Film Center, 164 N. State Street, Chicago, IL Director Justine Nagan to attend! Week run at the Gene Siskel Film Center January 30 - February 4th Winona, MN February 17, 7:00 pm Winona State University

[Martin Brady]

The Smithsonian should take this over....

[bot4k]

...such a beautiful feeling watching this!

[spikeman316]

0:33 the electricity bill of this guy must be so big!

[twakillian]

I've got to find the movie. I worked at Hamilton's during college summers and my father and grandfather spent most of their working lives there. It used to be a booming employer but many of the jobs have gone overseas. I have a desk nameplate made from some of the typeface.

[greendressgirl]

I grew up in Wisconsin and never heard of Hamilton. Thank you for bringing awareness to this amazing place. Its great to see a community that sees the value in their history.

[naturaelanthem]

not always. screenprinting is perhaps an easier method thats more flexible, especially to graphic designers. but I'd have to say that its "trendy" nowadays for designers to turn back to old printmaking methods, especially in art school. I can't say that its useful at all in the real industry though...perhaps a select few businesses but most design places work digitally

[xpez]

letter press is only a big deal to those that never went to a design school where you had to train on them....fun to play with but once you have to actually do REAL work on them, you will run back to the computer instantly...

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[toiseywoisey]

It looks like award winning Bruce Licher's letterpress studio in downtown Los Angeles the early Eighties.

[thesaltyseacaptain]

That is very cool.

[Molilin R.]

wow, thru the time, see the changing...classic one :)

[Barnomadic]

Wow i wish i could be there. For the change in this modern day, & for them to be forced to shut it down... i must say it would be such a waste!