Vintage Vibes: Poster Printing with Big Wood Type
Instructed by Stephanie Carpenter (Hamilton Wood Type Museum)
Friday, March 7, 5:30-8:30pm
Class Size: Maximum 8
Join us for an evening letterpress workshop at Signal-Return, led by guest instructor, Stephanie Carpenter, from Hamilton Wood Type & Printing Museum.
Using blocks from Hamilton’s vibrant Globe Collection, you’ll create bold, eye-catching posters while exploring historic wood type and vintage blocks. Perfect for beginners or seasoned printers, this session is all about creativity and technique.
Bring an idea for your poster—keep it short and impactful, with 6 words or about 40 characters. With an emphasis on play, experimentation, and embracing the unexpected, we will dive into Hamilton’s Globe Collection of type and image to create one-of-a-kind 11×17 poster prints.
Cost of workshop includes materials, instruction by guest staff and takeaway prints. Paper in this workshop is from French Paper Company, a small Michigan Paper Mill around for more than 140 years.
Instructed by Stephanie Carpenter (Hamilton Wood Type Museum)
Friday, March 7, 5:30-8:30pm
Class Size: Maximum 8
Join us for an evening letterpress workshop at Signal-Return, led by guest instructor, Stephanie Carpenter, from Hamilton Wood Type & Printing Museum.
Using blocks from Hamilton’s vibrant Globe Collection, you’ll create bold, eye-catching posters while exploring historic wood type and vintage blocks. Perfect for beginners or seasoned printers, this session is all about creativity and technique.
Bring an idea for your poster—keep it short and impactful, with 6 words or about 40 characters. With an emphasis on play, experimentation, and embracing the unexpected, we will dive into Hamilton’s Globe Collection of type and image to create one-of-a-kind 11×17 poster prints.
Cost of workshop includes materials, instruction by guest staff and takeaway prints. Paper in this workshop is from French Paper Company, a small Michigan Paper Mill around for more than 140 years.
Instructed by Stephanie Carpenter (Hamilton Wood Type Museum)
Friday, March 7, 5:30-8:30pm
Class Size: Maximum 8
Join us for an evening letterpress workshop at Signal-Return, led by guest instructor, Stephanie Carpenter, from Hamilton Wood Type & Printing Museum.
Using blocks from Hamilton’s vibrant Globe Collection, you’ll create bold, eye-catching posters while exploring historic wood type and vintage blocks. Perfect for beginners or seasoned printers, this session is all about creativity and technique.
Bring an idea for your poster—keep it short and impactful, with 6 words or about 40 characters. With an emphasis on play, experimentation, and embracing the unexpected, we will dive into Hamilton’s Globe Collection of type and image to create one-of-a-kind 11×17 poster prints.
Cost of workshop includes materials, instruction by guest staff and takeaway prints. Paper in this workshop is from French Paper Company, a small Michigan Paper Mill around for more than 140 years.
Stephanie Carpenter
Stephanie Carpenter is a letterpress printer, educator, and graphic designer. Since 2011 she has worked at the Hamilton Wood Type & Printing Museum. Stephanie enjoys the tactile nature of letterpress printing and the direct connection to history. She creates posters, installations, and artists' books using vintage wood and metal type and hand-carved blocks on 100-year-old-presses.
Hamilton Wood Type & Printing Museum
The Hamilton Wood Type and Printing Museum was founded in 1999 and is located in Two Rivers, Wisconsin. It is dedicated to the preservation, study, production and printing of wood type used in letterpress printing.
The "Globe Collection" dates mostly from the mid-20th-century and includes many pieces of handmade type and illustrations. The Globe Printing Company of Chicago was once among the leading makers of posters for circuses, attractions and general merchandising. After the business closed, the largely irreplaceable printing blocks were stored in a semi trailer for decades until the trailer’s owner was told to move them or they would be sent to a landfill. Thankfully, someone had the presence of mind to contact the Hamilton museum, and volunteers transferred the trailer’s contents to Two Rivers.