January 2012
5 posts
PROCEED & BE BOLD!
Amos Paul Kennedy Jr is an artist and letterpress printer living and working in Gordo, Alabama, a rural town 60 miles from Birmingham. His work is shocking—bold in content and aesthetic. His path to letterpress printing, an odd and winding one, is recalled and documented in the movie PROCEED & BE BOLD!
The short story goes something like this—Amos was born in Louisiana, to a family...
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Membership Spotlight :: Ben Gelnett
Q: How and why did you get involved with AIGA? Approximately how long have you been involved with the organization? A: I’d been aware of AIGA and attended events, etc. for sometime but didn’t officially join the organization until 2008. I was working for an in-house marketing department that valued AIGA and encouraged us to get involved. The local chapter is full of inclusive / great people...
Jim Sherraden & Hatch Show Print
Jim Sherraden is the head designer, archivist, and manager of the historic Hatch Show Print in Nashville. Hatch is one of the oldest working letterpress print shops in America. Originally creators of vaudeville and circus show posters, they now design and print authentic letterpress posters for country music stars and contemporary rock bands.
Sherraden has been at Hatch since the...
Learn to Code
It’s the end of the second week in January—still going strong on your resolutions for 2012? If so, you should add another! If not, why not pick up something you can actually stick with all year long? Learn to code in 2012 through Codeacademy’s Code Year.
Code Year is made up of free, interactive tutorials that will teach you how to write code. New programming lessons are sent to...
Kyle Durrie and The Moveable Type Truck
AIGA Charlotte presents Letterpress Fest, a week dedicated to an old fashioned tradition that’s never gone out of style. From traveling workshops to nationally regarded speakers, we’re rolling it all out for letterpress.
Kyle Durrie’s Moveable Type Truck began as a crazy idea on Kickstarter. Kyle, fueled by her love of letterpress and the desire to travel, raised seventeen...
