“Archival recovery: it’s journalism, but with dead people” 😵☠️🪦🗃️ Elizabeth Colwell (1881–1961) was the only woman listed as an American designer by American Institute of Graphic Arts (AIGA) in 1948. A working artist in Chicago, she was a printmaker, painter, and writer, plus designed Colwell Handletter and Colwell Handletter Italics for American Type Founders in 1916. Colwell wrote about hand lettering ✍️ for Sketch Book (1904). Her work also appeared The Printing Art (1905) and Inland Print...
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“Archival recovery: it’s journalism, but with dead people” 😵☠️🪦🗃️ Elizabeth Colwell (1881–1961) was the only woman listed as an American designer by American Institute of Graphic Arts (AIGA) in 1948. A working artist in Chicago, she was a printmaker, painter, and writer, plus designed Colwell Handletter and Colwell Handletter Italics for American Type Founders in 1916. Colwell wrote about hand lettering ✍️ for Sketch Book (1904). Her work also appeared The Printing Art (1905) and Inland Print...
Join Bethany, a literary researcher with a passion for the obscure, as she shares recovered and uncovered stories from archives around the world. For season one, we'll be talking all about the (mostly) forgotten women of the metal type era, a time when Monotype and Linotype technologies changed printing forever. From designing fonts to Leipzig's 1914 Internationale Ausstellung für Buchgewerbe und Graphik, typography histories to disinformation campaigns, we'll look at women designing typefa...
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“Archival recovery: it’s journalism, but with dead people” 😵☠️🪦🗃️ Elizabeth Colwell (1881–1961) was the only woman listed as an American designer by American Institute of Graphic Arts (AIGA) in 1948. A working artist in Chicago, she was a printmaker, painter, and writer, plus designed Colwell Handletter and Colwell Handletter Italics for American Type Founders in 1916. Colwell wrote about hand lettering ✍️ for Sketch Book (1904). Her work also appeared The Printing Art (1905) and Inland Print...
