Beloved VCFA MFA in Graphic Design alumnus Troy Patterson recently gave a lecture in York, Pennsylvania called “Catch and Release: Graphic Design Practice as Fishing Practice”.

Through the processes and methods of tactile making and shared experiences, Troy Patterson is able to release the results of experiments, or the products he has built, out into his community. Like fishing, making is only as important as the giving. The catch and release work in tandem. For Troy, the release has become the connection between art and gift, a passing of knowledge from old to young, student to teacher.

Troy Patterson is a graphic designer, educator, letterpress practitioner, and collector of things. He is a professor of graphic design at York College of Pennsylvania, where he has taught since 2003. While working with young designers is his main focus these days, he continues to be deeply involved in his own personal practice at Catch and Release Press. At C&RP he works on a range of projects, both commercial and personal where he makes 21st century digitally based graphic design and experiments in letterpress processes.

York has a rich heritage and legacy of craft, which takes both skill and intention. York: Crafted gives York’s doers and makers a platform to share their experience of what it means to craft, and to be a craftsman.

These events include presentations that use the PechaKucha 20 images x 20 seconds format. Find out more at PechaKucha.org. Official PK Nights city.

From York: Crafted’s January 28, 2016 PK Nights event. Video by Randy Flaum.Sports Shoes | Sneakers