Type Camp

This message recently posted on the Book Arts Listserv piqued my interest.

Have you had enough of the computer and electronic design?
Are you ready to return to the hand crafted side of the profession?
Do you love books and want to learn more about typography and printing through book production?

Return to the handmade at Type Camp Book Arts in Buffalo, New York. Here you will discover a new sense of tangibility in this ‘unplugged’ printing workshop as you’ll get ink under your fingernails, cast your own lead type, and even use power tools to kern letters. (When we say ‘hands-on’, we mean it!)

Type Camp Book Arts Buffalo will focus on the resources of the Western New York Book Arts Center, situated in downtown Buffalo, New York, managed by P22 type foundry founder Richard Kegler. This working printing museum has hundreds of metal and woodtype fonts and flat bed and platen presses, all of which allow for total immersion into the letterpress experience.

Campers will experiment with other timeless techniques including papermaking, foil stamping, and even typecasting during this intensive hands-on week. We’ll start with a pool party and cook out at the P22 compound and then there will be field trips to type dealers, rare book collections, and as a special experience, the final day of camp will take place at the legendary Roycroft Press . We cover all of your housing, food, classes, supplies, trips, and teaching for CAN$2390

I took a look at their website and Flickr pool and discovered they had camps in India and London.