Archive for 'letterpress'

This is a repeat of the post listed here.

(Printed on Envelopments Geisha-STA00 cardstock)
Thanks to the generous donation of beautiful paper by Envelopments, I started to print “flags” for the Fair using hand-set wood and lead type from the Museum. I printed the flags by hand on my Vandercook-4 at the Irvine Fine Arts Center. Here [...]

As a promoter, I try to keep up with letterpress class offerings in OC/LA. (This list is not exhaustive)
* Armory Arts, Pasadena
* Art Center, Pasadena – Letterpress classes at Art Center College of Design
* International Printing Museum, Carson
* Irvine [...]

This spring I’ve treated myself to artist dates along with graphic designer extraordinaire, Gina Pirtle Simpson. Call it our “World Letterpress Tour” if you will but there’s nothing else I love more than visiting letterpress shops across the country. Now that I’m back in Southern Cal I am hungry to see what’s going on out [...]