Hopefully, the results will be nice and we will be looking for places to exhibit the set, if you know of anything. Send us an email if your interested in a workshop. Letterpress printing is ideal for creating posters, cards, and invitations. Students will learn the basics of letterpress printing with hands-on experience. We love the ability to be spontaneous and to design on the fly that comes from letterpress. Workshops are taught on a Vandercook Universal I and Vandercook Universal III proof presses. Assuming the minimum time to design, compose and print is 4 hours for each color that makes each day a minimum of 13 hours + dinner in there somewhere. Then to the studio to “print from hip” in at least two colors. Then lunch on the patio to discuss what we saw that we can translate to the poster. We start each day with a 4-hour “live TV” feed of the Tour on Versus ( NBC Sports). All total we have non-Lead Graffiti printers on 14 of the 23 days at this point. A couple of fairly close friends, some who letterpress and some who don’t, and even the 8 year-old son of our website designer are joining us for a day. We also sold “stage days” with us, thinking there might be some people that wanted some creative letterpress or Vandercook experience (we are printing on our automatic Universal III) and would enjoy the creative camaraderie. They would make an excellent gift for a pork (the noun) lover or framed up to decorate your kitchen wall with ‘crispity clouds of porkaliciousness’ Limited-Edition Letterpress Posters, 27.00 (plus 9.95 shipping) at 4505 Meats. We really love the way it looks (4 point outline on a 12 line size). We ended up needing the outline as we are printing 10 copies of all 46 runs and we wanted to leave more open space than the solid would allow. One we are really excited about is a Clarendon Heavy both solid and outline (see image below). We had a couple of wood typefaces cut specifically for the project. If you want to see the project on you can click below. The option of providing ‘rewards’ at various price breaks makes it interesting to a wide audience. There have been several letterpress projects offered there. Might be something a number of you should consider. It was interesting starting the project through. We’ll be posting each day’s results as we go. I thought some of you might be interested in following along. The poster size is 14.75” x 22” with the deckle edge left on the top and bottom edges. We are printing on Somerset Textured White 300 gsm which has a wonderful, heavy feel to it. We’ll be reacting to the day’s events and translating those moments and incidents into wood and metal type. The depot itself has long attracted attention throughout the area, both for its architectural design and for its historic importance.Our time is really starting to get squeezed as we prepare to start our “23 posters in 23 days project”, paralleling the Tour de France which runs from July 2 - 24 (includes two rest days and we will try to translate both of those, also). The plan was to print words that reflected the ethos of the kindergarten. The idea was to print a large poster (76cmX55cm) using wood type. Fiona and I held a halfday (morning) workshop at DEP on Wednesday for four women from one of our local kindergartens. The Depot is a nonprofit 501(c)3 organization. Whole lot of letterpress poster printing fun. Past workshops can be found under News & Notes while upcoming ones will be also posted in Workshops. Let us know what you or your group wants to learn and we can accommodate. Even though the building is not ready, workshops are up and running around town. The Letterpress Depot: a living museum of letterpress printing, typography, design, poetry and art – a working vintage letterpress printshop, with space for exhibits, demonstrations, workshops, events and meetings, as well as typographic research and printing projects – to be a resource available to the community.Ĭheck out our Marketplace for posters sold in support of the Depot and to "buy" workshops.
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