Our focus on community
Bringing the Chinese heritage types back into action offers an unprecedented opportunity for Te Herenga Waka—Victoria University of Wellington to help link past with present, language with culture, scholars with communities.
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Type cleaning workshops
If you enjoy the meditative act of organising things, you'll love our type cleaning sessions where we clean, sort, catalogue, and rehome our unique collection.
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Wellington Bamboo Branch Songs: A Crowd Translation project
Explore a little-known poetic genre, the life and work of Lionel Chan, and celebrate the transformation of early NZ Chinese literary heritage into Kiwi English.
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The Voice of Kaishu: A typographic journey
We celebrated the kaishu font—the voice of the mid-century New Zealand Chinese community—with an exhibition, film screening, workshop, and other activities.
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Dragon Tails 2019
Dragon Tails was a Chinese diaspora history and heritage conference where we told the story of our Chinese heritage types to international audiences.
Proposing a new project
If you would like to propose a project, contact the Printer.
