The rain Monday evening wasn't enough to keep people interested in seeing the Movable Type van away from the parking garage of the Sears Crosstown building. Kyle Durrie of Portland,Oregon stopped in Memphis to demonstrate what it was like to print before the age of the internet. Children seemed to be amazed by the individual letters and numbers that could be assembled into printed posters and enjoyed having something they made by hand. When asked what her vision was for the project and why she decided to do the conversion, she didn't have an answer. She said no one had ever asked her that before so she hadn't really thought about it.
Durrie received approximately $17,000 in pledges from a kickstarter.com campaign to convert her 1982 Chevy step van in to a mobile Guttenberg style printing press.Whatever her motives or vision for the project she seems to be on to something. It's good to know there are people keeping the art of printing alive.
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