LetterBugs is an art project by designer and artist Bill Moran. Starting on Sunday 12 September, the Tipoteca Gallery will be hosting an exhibition of these “typographic creatures” in an imaginary dialogue with the children’s books on display in the showcases.

The inspiration for this unique animal world are typefaces, the tools of the typographer’s trade. As historian and critic Steve Heller has written, “for centuries typographers, designers and artists have skilfully created anthropomorphic characters and animals with letters, using metal, wood, photos and digital typefaces in playful ways.” Bill wanted to combine two great passions in an artistic form, too: the aesthetics of typefaces and the rich biodiversity of the insect world, both of which play a leading role in their respective ‘kingdoms’, the world of letters and the world of animals.

The artworks exhibited in the Tipoteca compose a significant retrospective of Bill Moran’s artistic research, including prints made for the occasion of the Cornuda exhibition.
Each LetterBug is hand set and printed from movable type, and sometimes the artist chooses to add marks with brayers skillful handled. Making these prints is time-consuming and demanding, and for this reason the print run is extremely limited. Each work is unique and signed by the artist.

Bill Moran will join us for the opening day of the exhibition.
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* * Notice
The event will be run in accordance with measures to contain and control the spread of Covid-19. The regulations in force at the time of the event will therefore apply.