Golgonooza Letter Foundry and Press

Ferrari and Carr started the foundry together in a 19th-century textile mill building in Ashuelot, New Hampshire, which doubled as both their home and studio. The two had previously been based out of Boston, where Ferrari studied fine arts and Carr ran a small press named the Four Zoas, which would later be renamed Four Zoas Night House (also named after the poetry of William Blake).[2][3] The two met when Carr advertised for poets who were looking for a platform to publish their writings, and taught them how to letterpress print and hand-bind books. Ferrari was one of two students, along with Mark Olson of Innerer Klang Letterpress, who stayed for the duration of the courses. After some time working together, Carr and Ferrari became business partners.

Carr was a creator of both original hand-cut and digital typefaces for the foundry; at the time he was one of two people in the United States using punch-cutting to create metal type. Carr studied hand-carving steel faces in France under the remaining punch cutters: Nelly Gable and Christian Paput; he earned a master's of typographic punchcutting from the Imprimerie nationale in Paris. Carr later went on to create two award-winning letterpress typefaces named Regulus and Parmenides and two digital typefaces named Cheneau and Philosophie (a Bukvaraz 2001 award for "Parmenides," a metal type for archaic Greek and a judges' choice award by the Type Directors Club in 2000 for his digital typeface "Cheneau"). After Carr's death, Ferrari continued running the press and its associated businesses.[4]