A Day of Letterpress Wordplay with Gloria Kondrup

Gloria Kondrup

Saturday, 10 AM–4 PM (1 hour lunch break)
March 15
(1 Day, 5 total hours of instruction)
AAC Print Room
$130/150

Working with instructor and master printer Gloria Kondrup, Professor/Faculty Director of Archetype Press at ArtCenter College of Design, you will create a letterpress printed broadside of your favorite words or phrase using metal and wood foundry type. Open to all, no previous letterpress experience necessary.

Gloria Kondrup spans both fields of art and design. As a design consultant to national and international firms she has helped evolve extensive branding, identity, and packaging systems. Companies benefiting from her expertise include Aon, Avon, and Goodwill Industries. As a full-time professor at ArtCenter College of Design, Gloria Kondrup has been a dedicated design educator for over two decades. As Director of Archetype Press, ArtCenter’s unique and vibrant letterpress studio, she redefines the value of typography and analog technology in the digital landscape. Her fine art printworks and books are in private and public collections including AIGA, The Getty, and the Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry. She was awarded the AIGA Greening of Design in 1997. Kondrup received her bachelor’s degree in fine art and her master’s degree in design. She was the founding executive director of the Hoffmitz Milken Center for Typography.