Speaker Jim Moran

Jim Moran received his apprenticeship from Moran’s Quality Print Shop in Green Bay, Wisconsin, while serving as printer’s devil, pressman, partner, and owner for 29 years. He became the Director of Hamilton Wood Type & Printing Museum in 2009, where he maintains the collection of wood type, runs and repairs the museum’s presses, teaches workshops, archives and restores the museum’s collection of 20th-century decorative and advertising plates, and oversees museum operations. He has presented talks and run workshops at the AIGA national convention, TypeCon, Fossil World Headquarters, IBM in Austin, Texas, the Minneapolis Institute of Art, the Columbia Center for Book and Paper Art in Chicago, the School of Visual Concepts in Seattle, the Adobe Max conference in Los Angeles, ATypI Montreal, and the APHA annual conference in Washington, DC.