It feels so good to have my site back. I don’t even know where to begin. How about my typography class? Well it’s beyond incredible. It’s taught by Bill Moran a third generation letterpress printer and graphic designer. We work with only old lead types and wood alphabets on huge old iron equipment that makes me want to throw all Macintosh computers out the window and get back to the basics of metal, ink, and wood. Wood type, its creation and use is an inspiring craft that is both a wonder of engineering and of design. Bill’s publishing company is Blinc Publishing and he still does a ton of letterpress work for different clients. The textures of which can not be beat by the stale and precise nature of the electronic machine. Recently he has worked with the Hamilton Wood Type Museum (a personal field trip is in the works for afrojet) to create one of the first new wood type font faces Hamilton offset which is available at Chank. The best part of the class is exploring the historical and sociological aspect of type, their designs, and the engineering problems vs. design problems that the designers were trying to solve when they were invented. Also interesting is how different and newer technologies for printing changed the way new typefaces were designed. It’s also given me a new appreciation for arts and crafts wallpaper.