Peter Fraterdeus has over 30 years of experience with calligraphy and letter design, including two National Endowment for the Arts grants to study calligraphy, letter carving and type design in Europe and the UK. He was introduced to letterpress printing in the mid 1960s when he first learned to print at Nichols Junior High in Evanston. He never imagined he would end up forty years later with a warehouse full of beautiful old presses, and printing on some of the very finest paper made on the planet. Peter taught calligraphy and letterform design at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago SAIC, and in 1986 developed the first Macintosh design lab in Chicago and the first Letterpress Typography Lab both at SAIC. He’s spent a lot of time in Barcelona over the past decade or so and taught web semantics and typography in 2001 - 2002 at the IUAV Architectural University of Venice in Treviso, Italy. He’s a strategic consultant semiotx.com, type designer, photographer, author, and a pretty good Irish Fiddle player.
Find Way : Art in the Information Age, featuring artists who have elevated information visualization to an art form in their chosen medium. This show was conceived and curated by Rebecca Malamud of Point B Studio. It's on it's way from Oregon for a September opening here in Philadelphia.
artists:
Peter Fraterdeus
Martin Wattenberg
JJ Ventrella
William Paul Gaetjens
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