Cast and Recast was designed by Jennifer McKnight. The graphic elements in the catalogue and on the website were created from Geometric Italic and type samples from Central and Inland Type Foundries.
CastAndRecast.com was designed and coded by Mio Yoshigiwa and Laura Heidotten.
If you have questions about the exhibit or would like to bring this show to your space, please contact Jen McKnight.
References
Robert A Mullen, Recasting a Craft: St. Louis Type Founders Respond to Industrialization. Carbondale: Southern Illinois University Press, 2005.
The Inland Printer. v.62–69. Oct.1918-Mar.1922. Courtesy of Hathi Trust Digital Library.
Rosoff, Matt, These 10 cities have the fastest-growing startup scenes—and neither New York nor Silicon Valley made the cut. Business Insider. Jan. 25, 2016.
Downer, John, Call It What It Is. 2003. Emigre.
Type Specimens Courtesy of Saint Louis Public Library:
Price list of Type and Printing Material, Central Type Foundry. March 1886.
Specimens from the Central Type Foundry, 1878.
Inland Type Foundry Specimen Book and Catalog, 1897.
Specimen Book and Catalog of Printer's Supplies, Inland Type Foundry. 1901.
Specimen Book and Catalog, Inland Type Foundry. 1910.
Specimens of Type and Brass Rules from Inland Type Foundry. 1895.
Specimen Book St. Louis Type Foundry. 1893.
We would like to thank the donors, contributors,
collaborators and staff who made Cast and Recast
a thoughtful and robust project.
We want to thank Ben Kiel and Eric Woods for their ongoing support of this project. We would also like to thank the designers who made posters for this exhibit: Marco Cheatham, Daniel Clark, Elaine Coder, Darren Collier, Scott Gericke, Anna Heinze, Corey Helling, Jake Houvenagle, Audra Hubbell, Lilly Huxhold, Gary Karpinski, Daniel Khang, Jenny Lin, Misty Manley, Patrick Milford, Traci Moore, Charlie Nowell, Joshua Rogier, Bruce Sachs, Lynn Ullman, Joshua Unick and Eric Woods.
Thanks also to Robert Mullen for his excellent essay, rare images, and the samples from Xanadu Press he shared for this exhibit. Thanks to Ben Kiel, for creating and sharing the Geometric Italic family, and also for his thoughtful essay and type design process animations.
Thanks to Robert Magill for inviting us to Monumental Type Foundry, for providing samples and specimens for the exhibit, and allowing us to photograph and film at Monumental.
We would also want to thank the many people from Missouri History Museum who helped us. Thanks to Emily Jaycox for the loan of her posters, and to Molly Kodner and Jaime Bourassa for help with images.
Thanks also to the special collections staff at the St. Louis Public Library: Kris Impastato, Amanda Bahr-Evola, and Renee Jones.
Thanks to Hannah Miller, Kyle McGowan, and to Heather Corley for expertise and hours of backbreaking help silkscreen printing exhibit posters.
Cast and Recast was honored to receive a University of Missouri Research Board Grant for funding for the printed exhibition catalogue and web catalogue. Thanks to the board for choosing our grant, Ruth Bohan for her editing and wisdom, and Brenda Stutte for help with our proposal.
Thank you to UMSL International Studies for brining type designer Krista Radoeva to campus.
Thank you to Antionette Carroll and Timothy Hykes and AIGA St. Louis for their support of this event. Thanks also to MAC, and RAC, and to the Center for Humanities for supporting us and also hosting the Ben Kiel lecture.
Erich Vieth deserves a large thank you for his time, donations and expertise filming, photographing and documenting this exhibition.
Thank you to Bruce Sachs for numerous design consultations, and thanks to Elaine Coder, Erich Vieth and Vicki McAlister for editing help.
Lastly, thank you to Terry Suhre, for believing in this project and sticking with it for three years. It has been an honor and pleasure to work with you.
