Presented by Type@Cooper
The Cooper Union, Rose Auditorium
Free

Dikko Faust and Esther K Smith will talk about Page, their own experience printing and designing with chromatic wood type, and the 21st century letterpress and wood type resurgence--including new technologies.

William H Page manufactured the largest and most ornate wood types in his Connecticut company and distributed his type all over the world--throughout the US, Europe, Asia--and even Burma. Page published Specimens of CHROMATIC WOOD TYPE Borders &C in 1874 to promote his business. He used inks made by HD Wade & Co which was located in Lower Manhattan. The book's brilliant colors show how vivid things were in the late 19th Century. Clothing faded, buildings were repainted--but protected from sun and dust inside the book, these colors retained their intensity. Specimens text is found poetry which has been compared to Gertrude Stein.