Poster House, the first museum in the United States dedicated to the global history of posters, will open two exhibitions on April 27, 2023: Advertising Type: Women in Digital Design and The Revolution Will Be Digitized: Typefaces from Emigre & FUSE.
The Revolution Will be Digitized: Typefaces from Emigre & FUSE(April 27, 2023 – November 5, 2023), curated by Steven Heller and Angelina Lippert, explores typography as the world entered the digital age in the late 20th century. After the introduction of the Macintosh Computer, a new era of digital type design was born. The exhibit explores Emigre and FUSE, two of the earliest and most prominent digital type foundries founded in the 1980s and early 1990s. This exhibit will feature 29 posters from Emigre and FUSE announcing new, innovative digital typeface designs to the world.
Advertising Type: Women in Digital Design (April 27, 2023 – November 5, 2023), created in partnership with the Type Directors Club and Amber Weaver of You Creative Media, features 12 type specimen posters, all created by women, targeted to graphic designers who want to buy or use a typeface in a project. With the birth of the digital typographic era in the 1990s, individuals were suddenly given the opportunity to create fonts on a computer, allowing an explosion of type specimen poster designers across the world. These posters advertise digital typefaces and showcase the myriad of women who are expanding the world of type design today.
“We are excited to showcase two exhibits this season on typeface, both of which highlight the important role of this type of digital design in technology today and throughout the twentieth century,” said Angelina Lippert, Chief Curator and Director of Content at Poster House.
Poster House’s major spring shows, Black Power to Black People: Branding the Black Panther Party and Made in Japan: 20th-Century Poster Art, are also on viewuntil September 10. 2023.
For more information on upcoming exhibitions and programming, please visit posterhouse.org.