As “birthday gift” for the first 25 years (1995–2020), Tipoteca Italiana asked 25 designers and printers, from all over the world, to design and print a poster. The project 25×25. Tipoteca 25 was conceived in this way. Starting from Sunday, June 21, the twenty-five posters will be shown in the Gallery (plus an “extra” poster made by Tipoteca) in a temporary exhibition open until October 2020. I’m so grateful to be part of it and looking forward to visiting this amazing place anytime soon!
The project was born on the emotional wave of this early 2020: the desire to celebrate the important milestone of the cultural life of Tipoteca, was opposed by the isolation and the forced closure for the Covid emergency. Thus the idea arose of asking friends typographers and graphic designers from all over the world at least a simple gesture of “presence”, through a poster designed for the occasion, in the hope of being able to celebrate as is appropriate. Maximum freedom of creation was left, except for a few rules: the size (50 × 70 cm), the colours (maximum 4 colours), and the printing technique (letterpress). Over half of the posters were made directly in the printshops of the invited designers; instead, those who had no way of printing the poster in their studio were sent a Type-Kit, consisting of the digital scan of twenty typefaces from the Tipoteca archive with which they could design the posters. The print would have been performed by the Tipoteca Stamperia on the basis of the indications of colours, fonts, and layout established by each graphic designer. And so it was. (source)
The list of participants:
Silvana Amato, Archivio Tipografico, Celene Aubry (Hatch Show Print), Frank Baseman, Cabaret typographie, Paolo Celotto (Neldubbiostampo - tipografia filopoetica), John Christopher (Flowers and Fleurons), Damiano Fraccaro (Otium studio), Armina Ghazaryan (Type & Press), Thomas Gravemaker (LetterpressAmsterdam), Clint Harvey, Alan Kitching, Dafi Kühne, Luca Lattuga (Anonima Impressori), Sascha Lötscher, Jim Moran (Hamilton Wood Type & Printing Museum), New North Press—letterpress, Meta Newhouse, Officina Typo, Paolo Palma (Metodo studio), Lucio Passerini, Claudio Rocha, Slab, Erik Spiekermann (P98A), Martina Vincenti (La Tipografa Toscana), Daniel Klotz, and Silvio Antiga.
The posters are available in the online shop.
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25×25 volte buon compleanno Tipoteca Italiana (in Italian)
image by Tipoteca Italiana
