Well, and now from world's smallest letterpress to world's largest lithography stone;) This picture has been taken in 1982 while printers where working on Rufino Tamayo's "Dos Personajes Atacados por Perros" (“Two People Attacked by Dogs”) measuring 61x98 inches stone. I wonder how they managed to place this stone on the press.
found via lithoshop
This Paper Stamp Kit, designed by Torafu Architects from Japan comes with various hand and roller stamps to help you (or your kid) create playful shapes and patterns.
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'Cool People Printing' is a new blog, curated by UnderConsideration, I will be keeping an eye on;)
"Whether it's during a silkscreen pull or a crank on the Vandercook, people look cool when printing. This site collects photographs of cool people printing: getting their hands, aprons, and clothes dirty; producing something of and on their own; and creating stuff that wasn't there before. Enjoy Cool People Printing because, let's face it, seeing someone press "Command-P" is not cool.
Typographic Wooden Teething Toys.
Typographic Wooden Teething Toys, made by Little Alouette from locally sources hardwoods and finished with organic flax seed oil, can introduce your kid to typography.
These beautiful notebooks from Calepino can be a wonderful gift for any occasion. Made in France, 100% recycled, packed in a nice box, the books comes in three colors: red, green and blue and three interior styles: plain, ruled and graph. Letterpress printed bookmark included in each order as well. On my wishlist!
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Texas student Wu Ch is printing tweets using wood type from the Wu Ch is printing tweets using wood type from the Rob Roy Kelly American Wood Type Collection. By letterpressing people's tweets she is aiming to counterbalance our fast-paced and impersonal world.
more about the project:
"One of the restraints I gave myself whilst outlining the project was to avoid new technology(Illustrator and InDesign) as much as possible in the production of the project. The idea is to take the digital into the analog, the current into the archaic, and recontextualize the analog version through digital platforms such as twitter and tumblr . I would send a copy of each letterpress poster to its respective tweeter along with this cover letter to explain the project."
more pictures here
After being fully funded via Kickstarter the Linotype film is now fully edited and ready for the world premiere on 3rd of February at the SVA Theatre in New York. Afterwards the film will be shown in different cities (check the screening page). I'm looking forward to see the film and secretly hoping it would come to Belgium one day;)
"Once you get ink and type metal in your blood it never comes out" quote from the new trailer. How true!
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