In our investigations, we often encounter enigmatic Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ) that accompany a particular subject or institution. Their authors and authenticity remain a mystery, often evoking both amusement and surprise. Do You Have a Platypus? features a broadside printed selection of existing FAQ adopted from established institutions typeset in fonts designed in Greg Lindy’s Font Design course at ArtCenter College of Design. Examples include, “Can twins read each other’s minds” and “Why is it illegal to sell a used mattress in Florida?”. More on the exhibition here.

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The Presence of Absence documents the 2023 program at the ArtCenter Berlin studio, which involved twelve weeks of research into the philosophical and aesthetic importance of understanding space, interval, and the interconnectedness of figure and ground in all creative practices. Led by instructors Prof. Simon Johnston, Prof. Rob Ball, and Nina Holland, Director of Little Steidl publishing house, the ArtCenter Graduate Program student participants included Elio Chen, Grace Hwang, Ruby Kim, Sydney Lee, Elliana Lee, Maggie Morton, Jacob Ruiz, and Katherine Shirinyan. The accompanying exhibition at HMCT Gallery was held during summer of 2023.

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Mujeres Hispanas y Tipografía (Hispanic Women and Typography) reflects the influences that individual cultures and histories had on the investigations of five designers, researchers, and educators—embedded in Spain, Argentina, Mexico, Colombia, and Peru—and what they deemed important and relevant to their interest in language, graphic design, and typography.

This bilingual publication documents these projects, developed during HMCT’s Typographers-in-Residence program in 2021, and celebrates the talents and contributions of these Hispanic women to the field of graphic design and typography.

Mujeres Hispanas y Tipografía is available for purchase here.

This catalog, awarded AIGA’s 50 Books 50 Covers award, is based on the work of our 2020 Typographers-in-Residence: Joshua Trees, Yvan Martinez, and Krister Olsson. It includes contributions by Clara Balaguer, Dante Carlos, Kristian Henson, Czar Kristoff, and Nat Pyper.

Public Foundry aims to serve as a tool and resource for collecting, archiving and constructing letterforms that express and embody the human voice — socially, culturally and politically: letterforms that reflect our collective and personal identities, ideologies and memories; letterforms that revive and reinvent endangered typographies to perform alternative pasts and speculative futures.

Program video here.

Catalog is out of print.

In Verbis Artis (In Words Art), an art exhibition that explored the relationship between typography, design and fine art, was presented in HMCT Gallery in 2020. It examined the fluidity of written words in contemporary culture, and addresses the myriad potential interpretations of language. Curated by John David O’Brien, the Los Angeles-based artists include: Gajin Fujita, Alexandra Grant, Mark Steven Greenfield, Jason Manley, Rebecca Ripple, alum Steve Roden, Jody Zellen.

Catalog available from Draw Down books.

Video available on the HMCT YouTube channel.

Click to download the Archetype Press type specimen collection.