Day 6 – May 29:
By 8:30am participants converged on the Venice Santa Lucia train station for a trip to TIPOTECAITALIANA. At this superb museum of type and printing we were guided by Sandro Berra, through three hundred years of typographic art and technology. He introduced us to wood and metal types and explained Linotype and Monotype systems. After a hearty meal, and “the best prosecco in Italy,” participants composed and printed a specimen of rare Futuristic wood type and handset a broadside with foundry type. At night they locked themselves into the Fondazione an intensive work session.
