Printing Types: New Zealand Type Design Since 1870
August 17, 2009 | Levent OZLER
An exhibition, Printing Types: New Zealand Typeface Design Since 1870, has opened at Objectspace (8 Ponsonby Road, Auckland, New Zealand), featuring work from New Zealand typeface designers including Joe Churchward, Jack Yan and Kris Sowersby.
Designer and curator Jonty Valentine noted that there had been an inadequate recognition of the discipline, even though New Zealand had been steadily building a type design industry over a 140-year period.
The exhibition aims to remedy what Valentine calls the "invisibility" of type design in New Zealand.
Valentine observes that "the purpose of this project is to begin to establish, or at least begin to lay the case for such a series of stories" and to question "why there is so little written about this subject."
Objectspace Director, Philip Clarke, notes that "Printing Types, is I believe, the first exhibition and related publication completely focused on contemporary and historical New Zealand type design."
Two highlights of Printing Types include the 1960s' achievements of internationally celebrated New Zealand-Samoan Joseph Churchward who is the subject of a new book, Joseph Churchward (ed. David Bennewith, published by Clouds, 2009) and Tom Elliott (designer of the iconic 1970s' Air New Zealand typeface).
more: objectspace.org.nz/programme/show.php?documentCode (86)
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