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The Design Division holds The Rob Roy Kelly American Wood Type Collection in its Type Lab. The Lab also houses a fully functioning Vandercook No. 4 proofing press and a diverse collection of metal type and attendant equipment.
The Type Lab is a core component of the broad range of technologies offered by the Division, which views technology both as an important tool for, and a pervasive component of, contemporary culture. Students experience and experiment with historic forms and methods of production; their learning is reinforced by this direct interaction as well as by their investigation into how technology affects personal methodology. This approach challenges the students to discover and incorporate historically significant technologies into contemporary use, and by studying the past, to energize the present.
The Rob Roy Kelly Collection is a working study collection, and the Design Division welcomes visiting scholars and practitioners to engage the collection in active physical research.
The Type Lab is a core component of the broad range of technologies offered by the Division, which views technology both as an important tool for, and a pervasive component of, contemporary culture. Students experience and experiment with historic forms and methods of production; their learning is reinforced by this direct interaction as well as by their investigation into how technology affects personal methodology. This approach challenges the students to discover and incorporate historically significant technologies into contemporary use, and by studying the past, to energize the present.
The Rob Roy Kelly Collection is a working study collection, and the Design Division welcomes visiting scholars and practitioners to engage the collection in active physical research.
A special thanks must be extended for all of the help and support that I have been lucky enough to receive. It is cliche to frame endeavors of this nature as never being an individual proposition, but it is no less true or rewarding for bearing that label.
Many thanks to my fellow Design faculty, UT Design staff Meredith Miller, and Design students Rachel Tepper and Josh Gamma who worked as research assistants. Thanks are also extended to Jennifer Lee and Jane Siegel at Columbia University’s Butler Rare Book Library, Jim Van Lanen, Greg Corrigan and Jim Moran at the Hamilton Wood Type & Printing Museum, Amanda Stephenson at the Museum of Printing History in Houston, Paul Gehl at the Newberry Library, Rich Oram at the Harry Ransom Center and Bill Moran at Blinc Publishing. Special thanks to Chelsea Fullerton for photography, Gabriel Sandoval for programing and technical prowess, and to Jardine Libaire for editorial adroitness.
I am also most grateful and thankful for the boundless support of my wife and son; great eyes and great ears.
Many thanks to my fellow Design faculty, UT Design staff Meredith Miller, and Design students Rachel Tepper and Josh Gamma who worked as research assistants. Thanks are also extended to Jennifer Lee and Jane Siegel at Columbia University’s Butler Rare Book Library, Jim Van Lanen, Greg Corrigan and Jim Moran at the Hamilton Wood Type & Printing Museum, Amanda Stephenson at the Museum of Printing History in Houston, Paul Gehl at the Newberry Library, Rich Oram at the Harry Ransom Center and Bill Moran at Blinc Publishing. Special thanks to Chelsea Fullerton for photography, Gabriel Sandoval for programing and technical prowess, and to Jardine Libaire for editorial adroitness.
I am also most grateful and thankful for the boundless support of my wife and son; great eyes and great ears.
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Type & Printing
Museum The International Printing Museum Cary Collection, Rochester Institute of Technology Columbia University, Rare Book & Manu- script Library The Newberry Library Collected Writings of Rob Roy Kelly Robert Lee’s Wood Type Museum