Graphic Means documentary by Briar Levit was initially started as a Kickstarter campaign in Spring 2014, was successful funded and is ready for a release in Fall of 2016.
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Quick links
1. Colophon Type Museum (FR) - link & support page
2. The Saguache Crescent newspaper in Saguache, Colo., has been printing its news the same way since the 1800s. Lay the letters. Ink. Press. Publisher Dean Coombs’ family has had the business for three generations, and has helped print out the weekly broadsheet on a linotype since he was 12 years old. See how the news is made the hard way. Video
3. Historische Drukkerij Turnhout has announced its opening days for the year 2016.
Worth visiting, check it out - link
4. Christmas Cards Exchange 2015 - link
help.book.art.pl Book Art Museum is a nonprofit organization maintained exclusively with private funds of its founders. Its 20 year activity enjoys recognition in Poland and abroad. BAM achievements were made possible also thanks to the place in which it is located - a historic villa of Henryk Grohman.
The Book Art Museum (Łódź, Poland)
The Book Art Museum (Łódź, Poland), located in Henryk Grohman’s historic villa, was recently awarded the American printing history association’s Institutional Award for 2015 for its outstanding contribution to the study, recording, preservation and dissemination of printing history in Poland over the last 35 years.
Check out The Book Art Museum’s new video describing their origins and activities.
At a time when "new media" is all the rage, Salt Lake City artist David Wolske uses a centuries-old printing technique that has disappeared from its once-ubiquitous place in the commercial world but which lives on in small studios like Wolske's and at book art centers, like the University of Utah's Red Butte Press. The former graphic designer turned to letterpress because he yearned for a more tactile experience in making art. He collects antique wood type, singly or in full collections, and by rotating, masking and layering them, creates dynamic abstract work he calls "isotype prints." His efforts garnered him a Utah Division of Arts & Museums visual arts fellowship in 2014. He'll be part of an exhibit honoring recent fellows at Rio Gallery this month, and in March will exhibit at the Salt Lake City Main Library. In this video profile, Wolske lets us into his studio to talk about the development of his work and shows us how he develops his unique prints.
David Wolske: The letter and the press
I’m sure many of you are familiar with a letterpress artist David Wolske. In this video profile, Wolske lets us into his studio to talk about the development of his work and shows us how he develops his unique prints.
It's all about the free trade of ideas
Preserving the lost art of letterpress or how the young women taking up letterpress.
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Typesetter Blues is a 3-minute animated short starring a likeable monster named Harold. In this melancholy love story, Harold falls for a new coworker, who unfortunately falls harder for someone else. Voiced by Canadian legend Gordon Pinsent (Away From Her, Pillars Of The Earth) Typesetter Blues is written in the nonsense poetry tradition of Edward Lear and Shel Silverstein. Produced in partnership with our awesome friends at Varipix, Typesetter Blues is the first “chapter” in the silly rhyme collection “Beastly Bards”. It’s a finalist in the Adobe Design Achievement Awards (Animation) and also screened at TAAFI (Toronto Animation Arts Festival International). You can check out more info on the Beastly Bards project here: http://wearetogether.ca/content/beastly-bards-post/ CREDITS WORDS: Pazit Cahlon PICTURES: Hector Herrera VOICE: Gordon Pinsent MUSIC: Jayme Stone PRODUCER: Pazit Cahlon ANIMATION: Hector Herrera 3D ANIMATION: Shadi Didi PRODUCTION PARTNER: Blaine Philippi/Varipix MUSIC: Jayme Stone (Banjo), Dexter Payne (Clarinet, percussion), Grant Gordy (Guitar) VOICE RECORD: Adam Harendorf and Greg Arnold at Voodoo Highway Music & Post SOUND MIX: Brian Pickett and Greg Arnold at Voodoo Highway Music & Post VOICE DIRECTOR: Dee Shipley at Dee and Company RECORD ASSISTANT: Josh Hagen
Typesetter Blues
This is absolutely lovely! Typesetter Blues, made by We Are Together (CA) is a charming love story involving messy kerning:)