Please join us for the Letterpress Printers’ Fair this Saturday, August 14th from 11-5pm, presented by Em Space Book Arts Center and key members of the Portland letterpress community. This outdoor event will be located at 323 SE Division Place, down the road from Em Space Book Arts Center and near the start of the [...]
Aug
11
2010
11
2010
Aug
11
2010
11
2010
“Farewell Etaoin Shrdlu” Screening
This Friday night we will be presenting a screening of Farewell Etaoin Shrdlu, a half hour documentary about the last edition of the New York Times to be set in hot metal composition. The steps of producing the paper, from editing to typesetting on the Linotype, then stereotyping & printing the edition are shown. It’s [...]
Jul
9
2010
9
2010
A new home
At long last, CCSTF is happy to announce that we have leased a space for our working museum. In August, we’ll be moving the type foundry equipment from storage and begin building out the foundry. The museum will find its new home in the industrial district in northeast Portland — in a great building owned [...]
Jan
9
2010
9
2010
Goodbye Jim Rimmer – you will be missed!
The type and printing community has lost one of our heros. Jim Rimmer passed away yesterday, January 8, 2010. Richard Kegler, who is making a film of Jim’s work on Stern, a commemorative font named after Chris Stern, published this letter earlier today:
Jim was a multi-talented type designer, graphic artist, bookbinder, printer, letterer, technician and [...]
Nov
5
2009
5
2009
Event update: November 7 Print Fair
The C.C. Stern Type Foundry will be at Portland Center Stage at NW 11th and Davis in Portland this Saturday, November 7, from 10am to 1pm. We’re taking part in a letterpress fair, talking about type, the foundry, and showing a 30 minute film throughout the fair. The film chronicles the last edition of the [...]
Nov
5
2009
5
2009
Welcome to the C.C. Stern Type Foundry
The C.C. Stern Type Foundry is a working museum of metal type and casting equipment, dedicated to preserving the heritage of America’s typecasting industry, educating people in the history of metal type and typography, and inspiring graphic artists and printers to pursue new directions using traditional metal type practices.
We’ve gotten our 501(c)(3) designation and with this [...]