Stacked Type

Graphic designers generally frown upon text that reads vertically from top to bottom, but here’s one example of “stacked type” we could look at all day. Sadly, this 100-year-old smokestack in Two Rivers, Wisconsin is all that remains of the former Hamilton Manufacturing Co. wood type factory, and it will be blasted with dynamite at 1pm on Sunday, May 31, 2015.

The Hamilton Wood Type & Printing Museum will be closed Sunday, but museum staff ask you to join them at the site to watch the demolition. If you can't make it in person, be sure to pick up our Spring COLORS edition, “Two Rivers,” while supplies last (which won’t be long!). $2 from each 3-pack support the museum. If you love the museum as much as we do, please chip in a few more bucks at checkout, or donate directly to the museum.