Yes. You. You rock.

Thank you so much to everyone who participated, voted, and annoyed their friends to help us during our Mission Small Business voting period. I’m happy (ecstatic) to report that we made our 250 votes with over a week to spare, and ended up going over by several votes by the time the contest ended. We’re now on to the next round, where our application is judged and 12 grants are awarded.

Should we win one of the grants, we want to expand, hiring several more employees in the very near future. So good work, by taking 30 seconds of your day to support us, you’re creating local jobs! We’ll also be able to discount more work for local non-profits and provide modern solutions to help them help others. But the long term effects are even better – adding more employees means we can also start concentrating on our own products. By investing in ourselves, we’ll be able to grow even more, adding more and more jobs. It also makes us more resilient and stronger as a company.

Again, thank you all so much for supporting us, and we hope we can return the favor real soon.

SimpleScott (aka Scott Thomas): Design Director for the Obama Presidential Campaign

Prior to his successful Obama campaign, Thomas and five other creative types began a design collective, known as The Post Family. The group devoted to supporting “family” member’s design habits – from silkscreen to letterpress, from illustration to blogging – in an effort to “get back to the hand.” In 2007, Scott Thomas’ career took a turn when he… was invited to join the Media Team at Obama for America, where he became the Design Director of the historic Obama Presidential campaign. Recently, Thomas, who collaborated with artists and designers, finished a book about the Obama Presidential campaign and how for the first time in American politics, a candidate used art and design to bring together the American people–capturing their voices in a visual way. The book, Designing Obama: a Chronicle of the Art and Design from the Historic Campaign, has information on how design was used by the campaign and became successful because of grassroots supporters. After the lecture, Scott Thomas will answer questions from the audience and sign books. For more information on SimpleScott, please visit http://www.simplescott.com/.

FREE for members | $15 for non-members | $5 for non-member students with valid student I.D.

6pm Reception with a 7pm Presentation and Book Signing

Limited edition books available for sale after presentation

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Thursday, May 20th
6pm Reception | 7pm Screening
Followed by Q&A with director/producer Justine Nagan
Rauch Planetarium Theatre, U of L
108 W Brandeis Ave
Louisville, KY 40292

Free for LGDA members | $8 for the public

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The documentary Typeface, produced by Kartequim Films is about a lone employee who waits in a cavernous old museum for visitors come. A few individuals straggle in every few days and then, come Friday, the museum fills with life. Machines hum, press print, artists buzz about. One weekend each month, the quite of Two Rivers is interrupted as carloads of artistians drive in from across the Midwest. The place comes alive as printmaking workshops led by, and filled with, some of the nation’s top design talent descend on the sleepy enclave.

In a time when people can carry computers in their pockets and watch TV while walking down the street, Typeface dares to explore the twilight of an analog craft that is freshly inspiring artists in a digital age. The Hamilton Wood Type Museum in Two Rivers, WI personifies cultural preservation, rural re-birth and the lineage of American graphic design. At Hamilton, international artistans meet retired craftsmen and together navigate the convergence of modern design and traditional technique. But the Museum’s days are numbered. What is the responsibility of artists and historians to preserve a dying craft? How can rural towns survive in a shifting industrial marketplace where big-box retailers are king?