Hamilton Museum of Wood Type

February 1st, 2009 admin No comments

Signage at Hamilton Wood Type Museum

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.

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Testing Scribd

January 15th, 2009 admin No comments

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

November 11th, 2008 admin No comments

Two plates from the same 4x6 inch negative.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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Sandra Anible’s paste paper demo

October 7th, 2008 admin No comments

Sandra Anible\'s paste paper samples

Information and photos from Sandra Anible’s paste paper demo will be posted soon. Write me if you did not pick up one of her handouts.

Is your type format True, Open or ’script?

September 12th, 2008 admin No comments

Font type icons

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

When you select a font in InDesign® from the font menu, check the icons to the left of the font’s name. The icon is there to let you know the type format. The O indicates OpenType fonts, the TT is for TrueType fonts and the red a is for PostScript fonts. Get to know the advantages of each format.

Where’s my Glyph? It was just here!

September 9th, 2008 admin No comments

Menu from InDesign\'s Glyph keyboard mapOnce you explore all of the characters in your favorite type face or font, you may want to see what else is hidden in the keyboard map for the font. For example, how many times have you wondered were the © symbol is located, or where the ® symbol for registered product names? Better yet, you may have the need to check out the full keyboard map for a glyph or symbol font like Zapf Dingbats or Carta. Glyph fonts like these are  only a few of the available fonts to you in the lab. Alternative type characters or glyphs can be hard to find. Luckily inside of InDesign and Illustrator you can easily find a map of the keyboard layout. InDesign’s Glyph menu can be found by going to the top menu bar > find Window> scroll down to Type & Tables > then down to Glyphs. A window like the one above will appear. Select the font you want to see by clicking on the small arrow that is circled in red.

Art 446 pdf for first assignment

September 1st, 2008 admin No comments

Click on this link if you need a pdf file of the first handout. We will spend more time in class on different aspects of the assignment.

Photos from Summer 2008 Artists’ Book class

July 14th, 2008 admin No comments

Click on the thumbnails above to see lots of photographs of student work from the summer session. Please visit and enjoy the work that this group created. It was a great group of students. We had fun making books and some of the students made paper as well. Great time was had by all.

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How to Make a Leather Journal

July 14th, 2008 admin 7 comments

Danika Morphew-Tarbuck gave a demo to the class to teach us how to sew a leather wrapper around two signatures of drawing paper. Below is a photo of a sample that she created.

sample of finished journal

Danika used leather from a purse that she bought at a thrift store to use as the cover. Heavy weight drawing paper was used for the journal pages. She said sewing is easier if you use waxed linen thread. You will need two needles to sew this book.

Step by step photos can be seen by going to the Read more >. Read more…

Chinese lantern flower or Bougainvillea + cotton

July 8th, 2008 admin No comments

Shanna Kaczynski, Sarah Ripp and Kathyrn Petke have been collaborating on sheet formation. Kathyrn brought in some puffy plants which I think are called Chinese lantern flowers or maybe they are Bougainvillea. Shanna harvested some dill will. There is no shortage of wild dill weed in Wisconsin during the summer. Sarah Ripp provided some white cotton fiber. The plants were dried under pressure for several days and added to beaten pulp in the vat during the formation process. The result are sheets with randomly placed dried plant matter on a white sheet. The Bougainvillea have lost some color but the texture and shape add visual interest to the sheet.