Hamilton Wood Type at the Old City Fest

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Sunday October 12th: 12:00PM - 6:00PM

Ticket Price: Free

Experience the history and craft of print-making at the Old City Fest with AIGA Philadelphia, the Hamilton Wood Type + Printing Museum (HWTM), and NextFab. HWTM's Bill and Jim Moran will be on-hand showcasing items from their amazing collection of traditional wood-type prints.

Also, see designs inspired by Hamilton's digital typeface collection brought to life with the help of NextFab.

Visitors will have a chance to own some truly unique prints created right in front of their eyes. A selection of high-quality items from some of the city's finest creative minds, including: prints, apparel, books, and much more will also be available for sale. All proceeds will benefit the HTWM.

This event is featured on designfeed, the official blog of the DesignPhiladelphia Festival. Read more here.

Who’s Coming

Old City Fest
N. 3rd Street, between Market + Race Streets

Presented By:

AIGA Philadelphiaâ€™s purpose is both integral and complementary to the national organization: to provide the highest standards within the profession and the business community and to stimulate interest and understanding of graphic design and visual communication through lectures, exhibitions, and other activities. The Hamilton Wood Type and Printing Museum is the only museum dedicated to the preservation, study, production and printing of wood type. NextFabâ€™s mission is to foster innovation and manufacturing as key elements of our nationâ€™s identity and economy, through providing broad-based awareness of, competence with, and access to Next-generation digital design and Fabrication technologies and services.