HATCH SHOW PRINT
My internship worked its way to full-time employment for three years at Hatch Show Print.
While there I designed posters and post cards, as well as book and CD covers by hand setting wood and lead type, mixing and/or matching ink colors, and operating multiple manual presses.
I would also process customer orders and product shipping as well as engaged in friendly
customer interactions, answer visitor’s questions, pose for group photos, and conduct educational
and might I say, entertaining shop tours. What a great, rich, and rewarding way to start a career in
graphic design in such a magnificent and historical setting. First hand I truly experienced
"Preservation Through Production".
This is the book cover of the latest history of HSP, and while I didn't design it I was pleased to discover inside a few posters I did design while working in the shop.
You bet I'm counting this one!
A few of my posters were curated as part of the
Smithsonian Institution Traveling Exhibition on Hatch Show Print.
In the Spring of 1999 The Late Show with David Letterman did a segment with Biff Henderson and the local band BR5-49 in Nashville. As they filmed around town they requested an original Hatch Show Print poster as a prop for the day, actually for that hour! The shop already had the band's photo plate in the archives and I kept the layout simple and classic Hatch. I knocked it out, signed a waiver should I get on camera, and handed a small stack of mostly dry posters to Biff and the band.
Here are a few of my favorites of the couple hundred pieces of work
I designed and printed during my three year tenure.
