Typography and Printing in Italy

Study Abroad throughout Italy

Venice, Milan, Cornuda, Turin, Florence

As a class we traveled throughout Italy visiting different art museums, workshops, churches, and many other historical buildings/landmarks. Our main focus was learning about typefaces over the course of history. I got to indulge in Italy’s culture and learn a ton about history and specifically art history. We went to two different workshops where as a class we got to make books and learn how to use old type press machines. We also got tours from different people who taught us history of certain typefaces and gave us tours of the cities.

Faculty Lead Program

Summer 2022

Prof. Andrea Herstowski, Prof. Linda Talleur, Prof. Jeremy Shellhorn

Typograhpy

Art Museums

Architecture

Workshop: T I P O T E C A

One of our workshops was in Cornuda, Italy. A small town where we got to stay at a winery on top of a hill. We would walk multiple miles to get to the shop each day and work on making a book with all of the old type faces. Each person was tasked with making a haiku about the trip so far and create their own page of the book. Mine was about food because I couldn’t get enough of the AMAZING Italian cuisine and speedboats because I was so excited to finally get to ride in one when we stayed in Venice.