Hatch | Field Notes - A Letterpress Print Shop

BUMPING ELBOWS WITH GHOSTS Nashville’s legendary letterpress print shop was founded by the brothers Hatch in 1879 and remains the living heartbeat of classic American poster design. Since the early days of our Quarterly Editions, we knew that to explore the history of American printing, publishing and design, we were going to. “Bumping Elbows with Ghosts” is a short film we shot at Hatch Show Print while this collaboration was on press. We explored their amazing archives, learned a ton, and for the most part, managed to stay out the way. PRESSING ISSUES Hatch is known for letterpress-printed posters. For many years, they’ve found ways to recombine their enormous archive of historic images and type in ways that always seem fresh and vibrant, but also timeless. Hatch makes large posters. We make small notebooks. Here’s how we worked together: have to collaborate with Hatch Show Print. We imagined a three-poster public service campaign about effective poster design, which we named Pre