14 August 10

A Week Behind The Typecase

My cat quote broadside I just spent the past five days taking the letterpress intensive course at the San Francisco Center for the Book. I’m not sure what I’m going to do with my new-found printing skills, but it was a lot of fun. We worked with the four Vandercook presses the center has, and produced personal stationery, a broadside of a quote our choice, and at the end of the week we reprinted the text from our broadsides to make up the parts for a pamphlet-bound book. At left is my broadside — two quotes on cats — printed in a rather beat-up 18 point Caslon font. Composing type a pretty intense process, but metal type is beautiful to work with. It’s quite neat to see one’s text laid out in shiny gray metal in the bed of the press, reading backwards of course!

Posted by at 10:38 PM in Design Arts | Link |
  1. Wonderful!


    dale    15. August 2010, 15:27    Link

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