DO YOU KNOW WHAT THIS IS?? It’s my new press, currently residing in my new print studio (a.k.a. the downstairs bathroom). It came up on Craigslist on Friday, and within a couple of hours it was mine. Matt, Stephanie, and I went to pick it up at a studio in Northeast on Saturday. It weighs 200 pounds, so we were ...
I hope to complete the set in two weeks! Mai Tai and Martini to come. Then I have to spend some time with the guillotine (i.e. the monster paper cutter): the final size is 6″x6″. Letterpress printing is good practice for the perfectionist brain. It’s so detail-oriented that it leaves me exhausted afterwards.
Last night was the last class for Letterpress II. We’ve been officially sent off into the big world of expensive, oldtimey printing! I knew there was no way I’d finish my project in those three hours, so I spent all night setting type and laughing. My favorite story of the evening was the one about how two of my classmates ...
Yesterday, I made photopolymer plates of the artwork for my letterpress project in class. I had no idea what was involved with that process (I thought you just sent out Illustrator files and they’d send you the plates – which you can, it’s just way more expensive), so I was very excited to learn all about the magic involved. It ...