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Trusty North Light in the Seventh Floor Gallery

(Jim Escalante)Last week I met with Nicholas Stawinski, a graduate student in the Furniture and Woodworking area. He wanted to take photographs of his Master of Arts exhibition in the 7th Floor Gallery. Once we had taken some installation photographs, Nicholas suggested we move some pieces closer to the window in the center of the gallery. It was a brilliant idea, since the window faces north and the window is large. In the photograph above, you can see him taking a photo with his set up. Continue reading…

  • March 18, 2013
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SGCI Conference in Milwaukee

book_Shelf_8470On Thursday, I will be presenting at the SGCI conference in Milwaukee. The presentation is titled Is it Something in the Water? – The Remarkable Proliferation of Wisconsin Printmakers
Presenters are: Brooke Cameron, Jim Escalante, Graeme Reid, and Christine Style. The presentation will be at UW-Milwuakee’s Golda Meir Library, Room 490 at 10:45-11:45 am. The presenters will celebrate Wisconsin’s printmaking by introducing the history and scope of Wisconsin based printmakers to attendees from outside Wisconsin. They will discuss commonalities, themes, and significant contributions to education and the field.

Laser cutter, please meet handmade paper.

Barbara Landes, a grad student in the Art Department used an image of seaweed as a pattern to cut plastic on Meg Mitchell’s laser cutter. The seaweed design was sewn on to a papermaking mould. In this experiment Barb double dipped the deckle and mound in two colors of cotton fiber. Click on the image above to view more photographs.

  • February 21, 2013
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It sure took you long enough!

IMG_8830Finally Jim got around to testing the foil stamping machine! It was donated to the classroom. Lets not even try to guess how long ago we got the hot foil stamping machine. Just know it has been a while. Jeff Mason asked me so often to test it out that I finally gave up and said, it can’t be that hard. I will add more photos soon, but safe to say, it is very easy to use. I grabbed an engraved block from the UW-Madison Extension archive, locked it in the holding channel and rolled some ink using a simple brayer. Pulled down on the handle and applied some heavy pressure in the a book with un covered davey board. For those of you that want to bland stamp into covered book board, we should have this figured out soon. Start thinking about how you want to use it. We are on a hunt for some foil material to stamp in or on to it. Stay tuned.

  • February 13, 2013
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New labels for ink modifiers.

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In case you have been looking for the “Mag” or the “Reducing Oil,” we have new labels on the bottles. Katie Garth was kind enough to design new labels for quick identification. Check in with me if you have any questions on how to use them to modify your inks.

  • February 9, 2013
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How to print a wedding invitation

Leslie J Smith III printing his wedding invitations the Type Shop and the Univerity of Wisconsin-Madison. (Photograph by Jim Escalante/Photography by Jim Escalante)

A few weeks back, I helped my friend Leslie Smith print his wedding invitations on the SP15 Vandercook. Click on the How to print a wedding invitation link to watch a short video that he compiled. His fiance Diana designed the card and they jointly assembled the printed and decorated cards

Type direction on spine of books

(Jim Escalante)Ever notice that the title of some books are printed top down while a few are printed from the bottom up. A scholar may know the exact reason. I often find that spines printed from the bottom up were published outside of the United States. Not sure if other countries print titles in the same direction, but often the bottom up text was printed in Europe. I was looking for some typography books today and noticed the spine of Type Image Symbol a wonderful book by Adrian Frutiger

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