#type museum

"A good tpyeafce mkaes ahnytnig eeisar to raed."

I'm extremely delighted to say that I've been award a scholarship by the Queen Elizabeth Scholarship Trust, which will allow me to travel to the US for a month's tuition with Micah Currier, proprietor of the Dale Guild Type Foundry.  Given Micah's recent setbacks, I hope that my spending time with him will be beneficial to both of us: a little income on arriving at his new premises for him, and some tuition in, and experience of, running & maintaining pivotal casters, and engraving new matrices.

In the long term, I hope that these skills will enable me to establish The Type Archive as a working type foundry, able to cast revivals of historic typefaces from our collection of matrices, and to cut matrices for entirely new typefaces.

If you are a typeface geek, you might just enjoy a visit to the Buchstaben Museum—also known as the Museum of Letters, which celebrates typefaces. 

Tucked away behind a mall in central Berlin, the museum features a collection built from contributors who share the love for typography.

Buchstaben Museum is home to hundreds of letters that have been “rescued” from public spaces and folded businesses—it also preserves, restores and exhibits signage that have been found from around Berlin and all over the world.