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Lecture to discuss history of type founding

by Gabriel Miller
Library Communications

Posted 4/1/2005

MADISON, Wis. — The UW-Madison Libraries will host a lecture on type founding by Stan Nelson, Museum Specialist Emeritus in Graphic Arts Collections at the Smithsonian Institution, at 4:30 p.m. on April 7. The lecture, sponsored by the Friends of the UW-Madison Libraries and UW-Madison's Silver Buckle Press, will take place in 126 Memorial Library.

Nelson will discuss the history of type founding and describe the process of how type is made: from punch cutting and matrix fitting to casting and finishing. His presentation will also include a demonstration of hand casting. The lecture is part of the Silver Buckle Press symposium Recasting Gutenberg, the second in the series “Hot Type in a Cold World” on modern letterpress printing and the effect of the computer on printing.

Currently Nelson is proprietor of the Atelier Press & Letter Foundry, where
he produces historically accurate recreations of hand moulds and foundry tools based on models found in printing museums such as the Enschede, Klingspor, and Plantin-Moretus.

 

 

 

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