In Portland Center Stage's production of FUTURA, we witness typography professor and librarian Lorraine Wexler give a lesson on the history of fonts in a future where the art of pen and paper has all but disappeared. The professor is particularly fond of the typeface, Futura.In 2006, when Anderson Krygier designed signage and graphics for the new Gerding Theater at the Armory, we just happened to think Futura the perfect typeface to marry the original architecture's classic proportions with the modernist lines of its contemporary interventions. What could be more perfect than for AK to be a sponsor of the play!
As part of our sponsorship, Elizabeth rolled out butcher paper and wrote with real pens to demonstrate the history of writing in an interactive, pre-matinee chat before the Sunday March 6 presentation. Over 60 people attended.
In the theater lobby, amazing letterform sculptures continued the typography and lettering theme.
