typeface film

October 12, 2010

Don't miss this screening - a must see for all typographers and Designers alike!

When: 12th October 2010
Time: 6:00pm

typeface the film

Movie trailer

Director Justine Nagan investigates how the value and purpose of older analog media have changed as our society has transitioned into a digital age in Typeface, Kartemquin Films’ (Hoop Dreams, Terra Incognita, At the Death House Door) latest documentary on art in society.

Typeface focuses on a rural Midwestern museum and print shop where international artists meet retired craftsmen and together navigate the convergence of modern design and traditional technique.

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 Museum’s days are 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?

Typeface will appeal not just to the design industry but those who have an interest in the social and cultural importance of printing, the maintenance of manual skills and the creative outcomes of this kind of work.

www.typefacethefilm.com

Two screenings: 6pm and 7.30pm
Venue: Metro Arts, 109 Edward Street, Brisbane

Please register online or tickets can be purchased at the door

Email enquiries to: qld@agda.com.au

Hosted by AGDA (Australian Graphic Design Association) and DCA (Design College Australia)