The Hamilton Wood Type and Printing Museum was
founded in 2000 and is located in Two Rivers, Wisconsin, United States.
The museum is run by the Two Rivers Historical Society. It is dedicated
to the preservation, study, production and printing of wood type used in
letterpress printing. The museum is located in a factory building of the
Hamilton Manufacturing Company founded in 1880 by J.E. Hamilton.
[1] The museum has a collection of over 1.5 million pieces in more than
1,000 styles of wood type.[2] Also included are presses and vintage
prints. The museum holds many workshops and conferences throughout
the year and regularly welcomes groups of students from universities from
across the United States.
Studio on Fire
Who We Are
We are a best-in-class craft letterpress printer. We
focus on making premium print work that we love as
much as our clients do.
Quality People
We are a group of a dozen people that get a sick
sort of thrill from paper and ink. We think about
craft like riding a bike – it is just second nature. If
attention-to-detail were a drug, we’d be the junkies.
Everyone that works here is committed to making
distinctive objects.
Quality Equipment
Having the best tools for the job is a must for highend letterpress printing. After all, we are talking
about working with vintage machines from 19501960’s era. Nobody is making new letterpress
equipment nowadays, but our machines represent
the height of letterpress printing technology. Maintaining these presses and using them with modern
letterpress techniques keeps our work looking crisp
and vibrant.
Quality Work
When you work with Studio On Fire, you are in
great company. We keep steady clientele with the
top design firms, agencies and corporations in the
world. Work produced in our shop is consistently
celebrated on design blogs, inspiration websites,
magazines and award shows. Plus, an entire book
of work produced in our shop is compiled in a
recent Gestalten published book: Iron Beasts Make
Great Beauty, Studio On Fire.
Swissted is an ongoing project by graphic designer Mike Joyce, owner of Stereotype Design in
New York City. Drawing from his love of punk rock and Swiss Modernism, two movements that have
almost nothing to do with one another, Mike has redesigned vintage punk, hardcore, new wave, and
indie rock show flyers into International Typographic Style posters. Each design is set in lowercase
Berthold Akzidenz-Grotesk medium—not Helvetica. Every single one of these amazing shows actually happened!
After receiving an overwhelming response from both fans of graphic design and music alike, Mike
decided to create an official Swissted shop. All posters sold here are of the finest museum quality
Epson prints, on enhanced matte cover stock, and printed with archival inks. Each design comes in
three sizes and are honestly even more beautiful in print than their online counterpart.
Swissted posters have been carried in the gift shops of London’s Victoria & Albert Museum, the Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago, Australian Centre for the Moving Image, Baltic Centre of Contemporary Art, and Tokyo’s Warehouse Terrada. In 2015 six prints were selected for Swiss Style, an
exhibition at the Museum of Design, Zürich and are now archived in it’s permanent collection.
Emigre was founded in 1984 as an independent foundry, developing typefaces without
an association to a typesetting equipment
manufacturer. Coinciding with the advent of
the Macintosh computer, Emigre took advantage of the new medium to design digital
typefaces, as such they did not require the
manufacturing infrastructure of a traditional
type foundry. Licko began designing fonts
that, rather than trying to imitate letterpress
technology, capitalized on the idiosyncrasies
of bitmap design and dot matrix printing,[2]
and later, vector-based design.[3] The
company is credited with being the first type
foundry to design original fonts made on and
for a computer.[4]
Through a good part of the late 1980s
and most of the 1990s, some of the most
cutting-edge typefaces were developed
or released by Emigre. Its magazine, in the
meantime, provided an outlet showcasing
the potential of its typeface designs, and
was well known for its graphical experimentation, criticism and essays on contemporary
design.[5][6] Many Emigre fonts belonged to
what would later be described as the grunge
typography movement, though others such
as Licko’s Mrs Eaves did not clearly fit into
this style.[7]
Emigre was often criticized for rejecting
standard design rules. Designer Massimo
Vignelli was highly critical against Emigre
and viewed their designs as a direct threat
to Modernist ideals. Vignelli called Emigre a
“typographic garbage factory,” and to him, their work represented “the degradation of culture.” [8][9]
Despite denunciation from traditionalists in the realm of design, Emigre became influential in the field. “People read best
what they read most,” was a manifesto that VanderLans and Licko held to when facing critics. Citing that what is deemed
readable is only so because of the prevalence of a particular font.[10]
Eventually, Vignelli, even after strongly criticizing the work of Emigre, directly promoted Licko’s font Filosofia, to which
Licko responded, “Massimo’s willingness to collaborate on our announcement reflects Emigre’s ability to bridge different
approaches.”
Also, information about Zuzanno Licko and Rudy Vanderlans.
Jessica Hische (born Jessica Nicole Hische, 1984) is an American letterer, illustrator, and type designer. She is
best known for her personal projects, ‘Daily Drop Cap’[2] and the ‘Should I Work for Free’ flowchart.[3] She published
“In Progress: See Inside a Lettering Artist’s Sketchbook and Process, from Pencil to Vector” in September 2015,
which gives insight to her creative process and work she has completed as a hand lettering artist.[4] She splits her
time between San Francisco, CA and Brooklyn, NY.
After graduating in 2006, Hische worked for Headcase Design in Philadelphia, PA. She then took a position as Senior
Designer at Louise Fili’s studio, Louise Fili Ltd, where she worked for two and a half years. In 2009, Hische left Louise
Fili Ltd to further her freelance career as the letterer, illustrator, and type designer she is known as today.[6][7]
Hische has been featured in the journals/magazines Forbes,[8][9] GDUSA,[10] and Print.[11]
Together with Fili, Hische designed the eye-catching “Love” stamp for the US Postal Service, which ended up selling
over 250 million stamps.[12]