Steve Hartman Invites you to The Creativille Tenth Anniversary Party and Exhibit: Impressed by Design: Letterpress in the Heartland

Steve Hartman invites you to celebrate The Creativille Tenth Anniversary.

Creativille is celebrating its tenth birthday by curating a letterpress exhibit and raising money for the Edwardsville Arts Center

Saturday, September 5, 2009 6 p.m. – 9 p.m.

Creativille, Inc. will mark a decade of design by organizing a benefit for the Edwardsville Arts Center (EAC). By curating “Impressed by Design: Letterpress in the Heartland,” at the EAC, Creativille plans on gallery and gift shop purchases, party admission of $10 and general donations to reach a $10,000 goal.

Purchase a $10 ticket, or make a donation to the EAC.

Visit the website: The Creativille Tenth Anniversary

About Impressed by Design: Letterpress in the Heartland.

Other than great bar-be-que in their backyard, what do these artists have in common? The letterpress. What was once the standard in printing books and publications, has now become an artform based in letterforms, design and communication. These 5 letterpress artists will share a range of the printed art from the fine-art book to expressive folk art. During the 6 week exhibit, guests of the EAC will view posters, books, broadsides, greeting cards; purchase what they see in the gallery and in the gift shop; experience hands-on letterpress demos, lectures and a documentary film.

Exhibit Runs: August 26 – October 3, 2009

Exhibit Celebration/Anniversary Party: September 5, 2009 6:00 p.m.-9:00 p.m.

The Artists.

Amos Kennedy, Jr., Alabama
Ken Botnick, St. Louis
Eric Woods, Firecracker Press, St. Louis
Jim Sherraden, Hatch Show Print, Nashville
Brady Vest, Hammerpress, Kansas City

For more information

Steve Hartman

Creativille, Inc.

(618) 659-2861

Visit the website: The Creativille Tenth Anniversary

About Creativille.

Creativille, Inc. opened its doors in September of 1999 by renting a one-room office from friend Karen Handleman at 501creative in Clayton, MO. Later, moved to the historic St. Louis Hill neighborhood, and shared space with Gregg Goldman and Scott Smith photographers. Today, Creativille resides in a pre-civil war brick colonial on Edwardsville’s Main Street in Illinois.

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Small: Design Firms in Small Towns Across America

All across the white space of America, are small towns dotting the horizon with their watertower or grain elevator. Tucked into the mountains, beyond the next prairie are thriving hamlets unseen or unspoken. Of course, I know this, because, I find myself in one.

As a solo designer in my own small town of Edwardsville, IL, I wonder what other small-town designers out past the rivers and deserts are creating away in their small office. Questions roll through my mind: What clients are they working on? Are they AIGA members? Do they volunteer in their community? What does their office look like? Is it a barn, a house, a garage, an old church?

Are they the “Design” member of their Rotary, too? What impact do they offer their small town? And, most importantly, how are they percieved by the “non-designer” neigbors?

So many questions about this has lit the fire under my curiousity hot enough to go find them, and report back. Its now my mission to locate, interview and share who is “small” amongst us.

With your help, we’ll locate these folks. There are two group pages dedicated to finding and corralling these loose steeds:

On LinkedIn

On Facebook

Today my criteria is simple: If your firm is located over 30 miles from a major market; and your town has a population of less than 30,000; and your company is less than 5 people; I’m looking for you.

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