Letterpress Guided Tour - Remembering the Bus Ticket

by TYPESETTINGSG

Remembering the bus conductor, walking through the bus, punching your bus ticket? Join the tour to understand how tickets are printed, hear the printing history and experience the letterpress printing process with the tour.

A Letterpress Guided Tour: Remembering the Bus Ticket
1 - 28 May | 10:30am - 12pm
1- 28 May | 1:30pm - 3pm

Venue: Block 1013 Geylang East Avenue 3 #05-130, Singapore 389728
Fee: $15 for Students, $20 for Adults
Registration: https://www.typesettingsg.com/products/_-letterpress-guided-tour-typesettingsg-studio

As rickety old buses sputtered along, the bus conductor stood steady, weaving his or her way through columns of commuters, collecting money for the ride and issuing tickets of varied values. Commuters would remember it being a rather fiddly job. Apart from keeping balance, the conductor would have to dispense change and punch holes on tickets as indicators of when passengers had climbed aboard.

These days, the pastel-hued bus tickets from 1970s through 1990s Singapore are sold as collectors items and can be found on platforms like Etsy and Carousell.

Sun Yao Yu, a letterpress connoisseur and educator, will talk about the typefaces that graced these once ubiquitous, everyday tickets and how they stand as expressions of the eras they circulated. He will also walk you through the ticket printing production process. A sharing session on the broader history of the arcane effort of letterpress printing; a hands-on experience; as well as a tour of Sun’s Typesettingsg studio are part of this unique SHF experience.

TYPESETTINGSG

TYPESETTINGSG is a traditional letterpress heritage studio, established in early 2014 in aimed to preserve and promote traditional letterpress culture in Singapore, over the years the studio preserved a good amount of local printing heritage and has been actively documenting the last remains of this printing process in Singapore.

The studio conducts various types of letterpress activities such as workshops, talks and exhibitions to showcase the studio's heritage collection.

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