TipoItalia25
Monday 23 June ore 09:30 - Saturday 5 July ore 17:00
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TipoItalia ’25
The Art of Alphabet in Northern Italy
TipoItalia 25
The Art of Alphabet in Northern Italy
Tipoteca Italiana
June, 22–July, 5, 2024
taught by
Dan Rhatigan
Rory Sparks
Riccardo Olocco
and
Mitch Blessing
To register or for furter information, please email to
workshop@tipoteca.it
The Italian landscape is full of exotic characters. Some are 2000-year-old classics, others are 20th century newbies. Some hide in plain view and others require a dedicated search.
TipoItalia’25 will guide you on a typographic excavation and digital revival of hand-painted signs from the streets of Venice, inscriptions from the Renaissance and Tipoteca’s collection of Art Nouveau and Art Deco wood and metal typefaces. In these two-week workshops you’ll explore old alphabets, print them via letterpress, and revive them to achieve computer-ready fonts.
Type historians, printers and designers Dan Rhatigan, Riccardo Olocco, Rory Sparks and Mitch Blessing will be your guides on this alphabetic excursion as you unearth and refresh the best of Italian lettering and typography.
TipoItalia’25 encourages learners to see the alphabet in its myriad forms and trace their evolution to the type collection held by Tipoteca. This program fosters a “typographic archaeology” that can then be translated into digital type allowing the participant to bring Italian typography to their desktop computer.
Who is this open to? Why should I do it?
We offer a program of this format to attract educators, designers and type lovers to increase awareness of the rich typographic legacy in the Veneto as well as the museum’s collection and cultural offerings. Experience with letterpress and Glyphs software is helpful but not necessary.
To register: please email to workshop@tipoteca.it
Find out the details
12 workshop days, maximum 12 participants
Period
June 22–July 5, 2025 | taught by Rory Sparks, Dan Rhatigan and Riccardo Olocco in collaboration with Mitch Blessing
Pricing
— Registrations by March 15, 2025
Euro 2,190.00
— Registrations by May 1, 2025
Euro 2,390.00
— Registrations after May 1, 2025
Euro 2,590.00
The fee covers the cost of the workshop and all transportation for daytrips. Participants pay their own airfare, lodging and ground transportation to Cornuda where Tipoteca is located. A 500 Euro reservation fee will be required to hold your place in the workshop upon registration.
Final payment will be due on or before April 25, 2025.
In case of cancellation, the fee is fully refundable until May 10 2025.
After May 10, half the fee will be refunded.
No refunds will be made after June 1, 2025
Lodging
Participants will arrange their own lodging. Once you register, we will provide a list of accommodations within walking or biking distance of the museum.
Meals
On the days when we’re at Tipoteca you may enjoy lunch or dinner at le Corderie for a flat fee of 15 Euro including wine pairings. This restaurant showcases the freshest meats, fish and vegetables of the region. The city of Cornuda also features other dining options and coffee shops within easy walking distance of the museum.
Daytrips
Per the schedule shown, we will visit Venice, Verona and Rovereto during the workshop. We will offer a tour bus or train to each location as part of the cost of the workshop.
Computers and software
All participants must bring a laptop with a version the Glyphs software loaded. Please be sure to load and test the software before you arrive.
Dan Rhatigan is a typographer with over three decades of eclectic experience as a typesetter, graphic designer, typeface designer, zine publisher, and educator. He has a BFA in Graphic Design from Boston University, and an MA in Typeface Design from The University of Reading. After years of designing custom type and leading design teams at Monotype and Adobe, he now publishes his type through his own small foundry, Bijou Type, and is back at Monotype looking after the strategy and curation of their platform libraries. Dan is also on the board of the Hamilton Wood Type & Printing Museum.
Riccardo Olocco is an Italian type designer and researcher, and president of the Italian typefoundry CAST, Cooperativa Anonima Servizi Tipografici. He graduated from the University of Reading. Since 2015 he returns annually to contribute workshops on the design of type revivals. His interest in history is central to his design work, and underpins his approach to contemporary design with lessons from historical models. With Michele Patanè, Olocco is the author of Designing type revivals (LazyDog, 2022): with this book they aim to share ideas, procedures and practices distilled from that experience.
Rory Sparks is an independent letterpress printer and bookbinder who specializes in collaborative, limited-edition artist books. Sparks earned her MFA in interdisciplinary art through the Confluence program, now at University of New Mexico. Nationally, Sparks has taught at various craft centers such as Penland School of Crafts and Minnesota Center for Book Arts. In the Pacific Northwest, she has taught at the Museum of Contemporary Craft, the Portland Art Museum, the Oregon College of Art and Craft, and PNCA. She has also co-founded several communal spaces including Produce, Working Library, and Em Space.