Our newest—and very popular—annual adventure into wood type continues at the Hamilton Wood Type Museum.

Jim and Bill Moran will instruct classes from 9am to 5pm on Saturday and Sunday. During these classes you’ll have access to a fully equipped pressroom with unique machinery and a plethora of type that’s been carefully curated to preserve the tradition of Wood Type. Most importantly, you’ll be spending a fun-filled holiday weekend of printing, learning and laughing with friends—old and new. At the end of the weekend, we hope everyone will be able to share some of their amazing prints with each other.

About the Hamilton Wood Type Museum

The Hamilton Wood Type and Printing Museum is the only museum dedicated to the preservation, study, production and printing of wood type. With 1.5 million pieces of wood type and more than 1,000 styles and sizes of patterns, Hamilton's collection is one of the premier wood type collections in the world. In addition to wood type, the Museum is home to an amazing array of advertising cuts from the 1930s through the 1970s, and all of the equipment necessary to make wood type and print with it, as well as equipment used in the production of hot metal type, tools of the craft and rare type specimen catalogs.

Located between the East and West Twin Rivers on Lake Michigan, the Hamilton Manufacturing Company was the largest wood type producer in the country, when virtually everything was letterpress printed. The company was founded in 1880, and in addition to wood type, the company has manufactured medical office furniture, light tables, the first gas powered clothes dryer (really!) and more; now in its 130th year, the company produces steel lab equipment.

Learn more about the Hamilton Wood Type Museum on their website.

Room Reservations

We’ve set aside a block of 12 rooms for this event at a great rate. Please contact the Lighthouse Inn for a reservation.

Lighthouse Inn
1515 Memorial Drive, Two Rivers WI
(920) 793-4524

Room Rates
Parkside: 1 adult $67; 2 adults $74 per night
Lakeside: 1 adult $82; 2 adults $89 per night

For your convenience, your dried prints can be collated and brought to Chicago for pick-up. If you opt-in and are unable to pick up your prints, please get in touch and we’ll work with you to arrange shipping.

Ever wish you had a roadmap for the elusive work-life balance?

Now you can. Join The Society of Typographic Arts and Justin Ahrens as he presents his new book, Life Kerning™: Creative Ways to Fine Tune Your Perspective on Career and Life.

You know how to design a beautiful layout. But what about balancing a busy creative life? Is it possible to build an inspired life that honors both your passions: a rewarding creative career and a joyful personal existence? Justin is here to tell you that it’s more easily achieved than you might think.

Principal of Rule29, Justin Ahrens, believes the solution is as simple as a process he’s dubbed “life kerning.” Just as fine tuning the kerning can visually perfect your design, making similarly small and deliberate adjustments in everyday life is often all it takes to create a more balanced and meaningful existence. Relevant to every stage of the creative walk from the newbie to the established veteran, this session will give advice, perspectives, and processes to fine tune your everyday routine and build the balanced and fulfilling life you desire, which may only be a small tweak or two away.

About Justin Ahrens, Rule29

Justin Ahrens is principal and creative director at Rule29. His passion for design is rooted in his creative firm’s commitment to “making creative matter ^®.” For more than 10 years, Ahrens has led Rule29 in its commitment to both great design and helping others think differently about the world around them. Through a collaborative approach in both strategy and design, Rule29’s culture is just as important as its work. This is particularly evident by the company’s involvement in numerous social causes, including their substantial work in Africa. Ahrens has also been a consistent voice for the creative community as it relates to balancing life, design and business. His obsession for creative is only overshadowed by his passion for being home with his wife, Sarah, and their four amazing kids (who think Dad’s job is listening to music, drawing pictures and playing on the computer). Ahrens’ book, Life Kerning: Creative Ways to Fine Tune Your Perspective on Career and Life is available at lifekerning.com or on amazon.

Learn more about Justin Ahrens and Rule29

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Thank you to Grip Design for hosting us for this event.

A One-Day Workshop to Inspire Confident Creatives

You've learned how to harness your creativity. You can kern or code with the best of them. It's now time to make sure you get paid. MoxieConf is a day–long crash course on the business side of design and technology. Practical talks and workshops on how to be more assertive, how to self-promote, how to sell your ideas, and how to protect yourself legally. In short, how to make that cheddar and look good doing it.

Speakers

Event Schedule

• 8:30–9:00
  Registration
  Please arrive on time.
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• 9:00–9:20
  Quite Strong
  Opening Remarks
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• 9:30–10:00
  Meghan Wilker & Nancy Lyons
  on the new rules of professional networking
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• 10:10–10:40
  Marcia Lausen
  on what it means to become a design leader
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• 10:50–11:20
  Linda McCauley
  on negotiating like a pro
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• 11:30–12:00
  Mare Swallow
  on delivering a knockout presentation
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• 12:00–1:00
  Lunch Break
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• 1:10–1:40
  Mig Reyes
  Heart Work : Hard Work
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• 1:50–2:20
  Heather Nolan
  on protecting yourself legally
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• 2:30–3:00
  Marian Williams & Sara O’Mara
  On starting your own practice
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• 3:00–3:35
  Snack Break
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• 3:45–4:15
  Mikey Burton
  on self promotion
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• 4:25–5:10
  Alissa Walker
  How to (Politely) Demand to Be Paid to Do the Work You Love
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• 6:00–10:00
  Post-Party
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Post Party

Just a short walk from the event, join us at Villain's on 649 Clark Street just south of Harrison.

We'll get the first drink while you rub elbows with the day's speakers in a relaxed Chicago neighborhood pub. Villain's also boasts a huge beer list, dim lighting, and some mean burgers.

Join The Chicago Metropolitan Board of the Urban League, The STA and the AIGA for a free exhibition of art, design and music in observance of Black History Month.

This amazing celebratory event curated by Lashun F. Tines and musical soundtrack by DJ Mark Fullaflava will be featuring the works of:

• Antonio Moton (art director - critical mass)
• Jeff Reid (painter)
• Fantah Celah (painter)
• Max Sansing (muralist, painter, illustrator)
• Phillip Sinclair (painter, illustrator)
• James Nelson (painter, illustrator)
• Obari Cartman (photographer)
• Lashun F. Tines (art director, illustrator)
• Nicole Martin (painter)
• Roger Carter (painter,illustrator)
• Ben Blount (art director-ga)

This event is an STA-Supported event

In today’s fast-paced digital world, does typography even matter? Or is it just another thing of the past?

Western typography has been around for almost 600 years. As technologies rapidly evolve, what was once available only for type setters and typographers is now available to any 3-year old with an iPad that has default fonts and type settings. What does this mean for typography? What does this mean for technology? What does this mean for typographers?

In this talk, Uzi Shmilovici—Founder and CEO of Future Simple—share answers and thoughts from his perspective as someone who is constantly in the intersection of technology and design.

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Uzi Shmilovici is a entrepreneur as much as he's a designer, programmer and writer. In 2003, Uzi co-founded Netcraft an Israeli web agency focused on user experience and web technologies. Netcraft became the leading web agency overseas, setting new standards in design and development for the web.

In late 2009, he moved to Chicago and from here, he founded Future Simple and embarked on a new challenge to make business software exciting. Leveraging paradigm shifts in computing (mobility, advanced user interfaces and big data algorithms), we build the next generation of business software.

His unique and international perspective has been featured in such publications and blogs such as Forbes, TechCrunch and Smashing Magazine, where he discusses design, marketing as well has his business ventures.

Follow him on Twitter

Forbes

Revolution: A New Era In Software For Small Businesses

TechCrunch

• Complete Guide to Freemium
• Eight Ways to Go Viral
• Future Simple releases first full-blown CRM app for Android

Smashing Magazine

How to Identify Good Clients (and Avoid Bad Ones)

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About this event's sponsor

The Coop is a shared loft space nestled in Downtown Chicago with desks available for rent by the day, week or month. We're affordable, fun and flexible. Did we mention we host events, too?

Break away from the computer for an evening of sketching, networking, and fun with a game of Pictionary with fellow designers.

Join us for an awesome fun at Doejo where we'll make really bad sketches and guess at some really hard questions while we attempt to play a game of pictionary. The winning team of four will win tickets to our upcoming Local Legends event. Light snacks and beverages will be served.

Pizza will be provided, but BYOB. The event is free, but we're asking for a $5 donation to help the STA continue to host great events.