How to set movable type
It is easy, just watch this very short animation. Set the type upside down or “wrong reading” Click here if you have trouble getting the video to play.
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Your printing may need some pressure!
Over a year ago, students in my Art 356 Print Production class designed layouts for a tutorial hand-out on Pressure Printing, also known as Stratography.
Tracy Honn provided the text from a hand-out that she used at a conference. I took photos of Carol Parker’s book that she created when she was in graduate school along with the original plates. Tracy Honn and Sarah Noreen printed a demo for photographs at the Silver Buckle Press. Two solutions are available for download. Alyssa Grabski’s solution is here. A link to Meg Neuville’s is here. Let me know if you have any questions.
Jimmy Santiago Baca
Poet, writer and filmmaker Jimmy Santiago Baca met with students and staff at the Multicultural Center at the University of Wisconsin-Madison recently. The focus of the meeting was to discuss how to build unity and increase awareness for Latino students. It was a pleasure to see such a well know writer and activist meet with students. You can see a photograph of Jimmy Santiago Back .
Post to delicious
You may know that I created an account for the Art 356 class on the delicious.com site. You can see lots of sites that are related to the class. Also, please post websites that you interesting for other classmates. To post to the art 356 account go to delicious.com/post and tag the site. Let me know if you forgot the login name or password.
Hamilton Museum of Wood Type
Two Rivers Wisconsin is home to the Hamilton Museum of Wood Type. This link will take you to a gallery of images that I took during a tour with Phil Hamilton and John Rieben.
Testing Scribd
This is a test to distribute a handout for binding a simple pamphlet stitch book.
Pamphlet Binding Stitch
Polymer Platemaking in the type lab or room 6451
Dennis Michael Peterson drew a large arrow on frosted mylar. As an experiment, we thought it would be fun to take a digital photo of the drawing and scale it down to print it on our letterpress printing press. His original graphite drawing is about 2 x 3 feet. In Adobe Photoshop we converted the image to a greyscale, set the image size to 8.5 x 11 inches and set the resolution to 300 ppi. The kind folks at Smartset in Minneapolis, MN made the negative for us and quickly mailed it to us. These plates are actually smaller samples that we had made for printing on a post card. Once the larger version is done, we will add more images to this post.
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