Legacy of LettersNortherN Italy | July 18–28 · 2012

Paul Shaw & alta Price

July 18–20 MIlaNo | ParMa

View of the foothills of the Alps north of Cornuda

Detail of sign for Taverna Moriggi (Milano)

Palazzo di Giustizia (Milano) | Graffiti-covered traffic sign (Milano)

Lucio Passerini and Legacy of Letters participants at Il Buon Tempo (Milano)

16th c. inscription in Duomo (Parma) | Page of text corrected by Giambattista Bodoni | Museo Bodoniano (Parma)

Detail of bas relief on outside of Battistero (Parma) | Monogram in metal (Parma)

July 20–23 corNuda | tipoteca

Monotype die cases | Tipoteca Italiana Fondazione

Letters cut out of corrugated cardboard | Monotype composing machine | Tipoteca Italiana Fondazione

David Shields and Tim Chambers practicing calligraphy

Calligraphic teaching sheets (cancellaresca corsiva and the evolution of the letter g) | Paul Shaw demonstrating

Luca Barcellona writing with a ruling pen

Luca Barcellona demonstrating expressive calligraphy with a broad-edged marker

Egyptian wood type | Wood type specimen books | Tipoteca Italiana Fondazione

July 22 & 24 aquIleIa | VeNeZIa

Roman inscription | Parco Nazionale Archeologico di Aquileia

Roman inscription | Museo Archeologico Nazionale di Aquileia

Borges labyrinth | Fondazione Cini (Venezia)

Farmacia Dr. Chiaro (Venezia) | Isola di San Giorgio (Venezia)

Graffiti (Venezia)

Details from two shop signs (Venezia)

S. Zitelle (Venezia) | Detail from Hypnerotomachia Poliphili (1499) | Fondazione Cini

July 25–27 corNuda | tipoteca

Lucio Passerini showing Angela Holland and Maureen Hoffmann how to set type | Detail of angle-bodied script type | Tipoteca Italiana Fondazione

Alta Price, Pat Vining, Angela Holland and Maureen Hoffmann setting type

Serie Pisa N. 1577 matrices | Tipoteca Italiana Fondazione

Maureen Hoffmann and Alta Price setting type

Sasha Trubin planning his keepsake panel

Angela Holland setting type | David Shields looking at wood type

Patricia Vining picking up ‘pied’ type

Patricia Vining planning out her keepsake panel

Lucio Passerini and Alta Price placing type in the bed of the fag press | Tim Chambers planning out his keepsake panel

Diana Pasovski adjusting wood type in the bed of the press

Clint Harvey inking wood type while Diana Pasovski prepares to operate the press

Diana Pasovski and David Shields discuss makeready | Detail of the British 4c press

July 28–29 roVereto | VeroNa

Detail of 18th c. fresco (Rovereto)

Alta Price and Paul Shaw in courtyard of Museo d’Arte di Rovereto e Trento (mart)

Panoramic view of Verona

Detail of Cinema Corallo Teatro neon sign | 1749 inscription at S. Francesco (Verona)

Detail of Vini-Liquori di Giovanni Zampieri sign (Verona)

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Type locked up for printing second color of group keepsake

Legacy of Letters participants walking back to Villa Bolzonello from the Tipoteca

Design, typography and photography by Paul Shaw

LeGacY of LetterSnorthern italy | july 18–28 · 2012

Paul Shaw & Alta Price