June 16, 2017

The Birth of a Wood Type

P22 Type Foundry and The Hamilton Wood Type Museum have announced the newest addition to the Hamilton Wood Type Legacy Project: Brylski by Nick Sherman, named for retired wood type cutter Norb Brylski and designed to be cut as wood type at the museum in Two Rivers, WI. It incorporates several themes that were common in 19th-century type design, including... Read More »

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May 2, 2017

Silver Buckle Press

On April 8 a group from the UW-Madison libraries made a trip to Two Rivers. They joined us at the museum for a tour and a printing demonstration in the new location of Silver Buckle Press. After more than four decades at UW-Madison, the collection was relocated to the museum under a long-term agreement between Hamilton and the University of... Read More »

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April 27, 2017

The Story of Coated Paper

By: Ferkó Goldinger, Marketing Manager, Appleton Coated, fgoldinger@appletoncoated.com Article reproduced in its entirety from UPPERCASE #33, courtesy of Janine Vangool, UPPERCASE. As you’ve no doubt noticed, the page you’re perusing looks and feels altogether different from most of this issue. Indeed, most issues of UPPERCASE. Faithful readers of UPPERCASE (this writer included) love the look and feel of its pages.... Read More »

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March 22, 2017

Windgate Project Managers: Spring 2017

Hamilton has embarked on an organizational project to catalog the museum’s collections. With support from the Windgate Foundation we are currently organizing and proofing the type and printing blocks in the Globe Collection. We started the process in 2015 working with Heather Buechler, Raychel Lauen and Vida Sacic and continued the work in the fall of 2016 by bringing in... Read More »

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February 1, 2017

The First "Familiar Faces & Extended Families" Letterpress Workshop

On Saturday, January 28, we enjoyed our first workshop in the "Familiar Faces & Extended Families" letterpress workshops series. This is a series of 5 letterpress workshops sponsored by Hoefler & Co. In this workshop we looked at and printed with Antique styles. Antique wood type is a slab-serif style that is unbracketed and often has a serif that is... Read More »

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