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The Type Museum Trust
Trustees’ Report
Year ended 31 March 2011
Activities during the year
The Archive has made significant progress with its apprenticeship training during the year, ensuring for the first time that the wealth of unique heritage machines and equipment that are cared for here will continue to have skilled professionals to operate them into the future. Capturing these unique and exacting skills across the three collections has been the central focus of staff, trustees and expert volunteers. Processes which have never been written down before have been carefully analysed and recorded, opening a Pandora's box of fresh opportunities for the Archive to share, ultimately, with the public.
Programmes designed for modern computer use can also be harnessed directly to heritage machines. These are exciting changes which will have wide appeal to visitors and theoutside world. There is a surge of interest in letterpress in the US and Japan and a fresh generation of designers are using modern letterpress techniques on a wide range of products. In Britain it is becoming increasingly used in publishers’ dust jackets, notably those of Penguin Books. Typography and fonts are fashionable, and the timing is right for the Type Archive to achieve its essential goals and to open its doors as a national monument and major international resource.
Training developments have required many improvements to be made to the site, in terms of overall security, upgraded fire and burglary systems and appropriate working conditions. Work began in 2010, and has continued into 2011.
This is a crucially important time of consolidation for the Archive. The threatened and endangered skills being passed on here need time to become firmly established. Our present multi-skilled apprentices need, in turn, to train a second and third group.