Carbon paper proofs of 19th century type and an early 20th century border for a postcards design. 19th century type is notoriously difficult to work with and requires a lot of finicky spacing adjustments. Carbon paper is an easy way to check these changes before going to print.
@werockchicago (formerly Girls Rock! Chicago) is an incredible camp & community for girls and gender expansive kids that’s been a safe & supportive home for our printers devil, Jo. WR!C is turning 20 and we’ll be celebrating Saturday night (May 2) with music and SO many auction items from Starshaped pals @vichcraft , @fieldnotesbrand , @theloftchicago , @chicagofretworks and lots of others who care about the power of music in kids lives and want them to have access to it. Check out their site to see everything available and join us!
I’m teaching a Long-Distance Letterpress workshop for @pipletterpress on Saturday, May 16th called Locked Up! If you’re a printer looking to tighten up your skills with forms, math and planning for more efficient printing, this is for you. Join us!
We Are All Just Figuring It Out, a recent Print Club print, is now available. It features incredible metal type cast to be modular and in this case, to vibe with cross stitch typography.
Happy National Pet Day, especially to astronaut Leland Melvin who snuck his dogs into his official NASA photo. Making little faces from metal type is a joy, especially my best friend.
Happy National Doctors Day to the docs that didn’t inspire my artist book, An Open Letter to Doctors. Here are a few of the 10 pages of lessons learned the very hard way. Link in profile for more.
A new print for the folks doing the work to ensure democracy doesn’t die. We see you! $10 of each print goes to @icirr_il
Link in profile. And we’ll have them this weekend at @chicagostationeryfest
We’ll be at @chicagostationeryfest this weekend, with lots of new prints and some classic faves, all 100% printed with antique metal & wood type. We cooked up a print collab with @afavoritedesign for visitors to pull as well. Didn’t get tix? New stuff is on our site all the time and email subscribers get a discount.
