observing only letterpress’s central constraint: Ink paints block, and block presses paper. A few blocks from the Country Music Hall of Fame, Bryce McCloud runs Isle of Printing, which designs ...

"We got our first press and stumbled our way through letterpress printing," Cary recalls. While Cary was earning degrees at UC Berkeley and the University of Minnesota and then embarked on what ...

The idea first came about during an exercise to help simplify the printing process ... Typically, letterpress printmakers use wooden or linoleum blocks with raised images on them (imagine these ...

All these materials have been printed on an 1860s hand-operated Columbian printing press, with the process repeated ... “The small flaws in the hand-carved wooden blocks are what give letterpress its ...

In letterpress printing, ink is applied to a raised surface, like a stamp, and pressed onto a surface. It revolutionized printing and communication in the mid-1450s and was not replaced until 500 ...

Letterpress is a medium of endless possibilities. This course will start with the basics: ink, rollers, type, paper and a press, and introduce the setting of type, locking up a form and using spacing ...

Letterpress and other forms of relief printing represent some of the oldest printing techniques, and M.C. Pressure operates vintage machines that are no longer manufactured. The oldest machine ...

Grace Vanderbush creates national park scenes out of clay, Bruno Press puts a new spin on an old printing tradition ... like that there's nothing about letterpress that is fast.

Now that we are all drenched in digital design, the tactile pleasures of getting hands on with letterpress printing are immense, and the charmingly imperfect results the style offers remain hugely ...

Kyle Hawley founded Letterpress PLAY with two goals in mind: sharing the magic of letterpress printing with the world and encouraging others to consider sustainable choices. At Letterpress PLAY ...

“We got our first press and stumbled our way through letterpress printing,” Cary recalls. While Cary was earning degrees at UC Berkeley and the University of Minnesota and then embarked on ...