So, yesterday I mentioned a few projects, and here are the visuals:
Wayzgoose contribution:
The lead type on the press and the printed end-product.
The black bird lino cut set mounted on a block of wood.
The printed cover with Holly’s funky calligraphy. A fun spring fling.
The text of Henley’s poem is
The nightingale has [...]
Archive for February, 2008
Those Photos I Promised….
February 28, 2008Printing Year is Under Way
February 27, 2008Friday saw the back of a huge order we had been working on since December, so now there is time to begin work in earnest on a number of printing projects simultaneously.
I had to put the vampire project briefly on hold, since a contribution to the Grimsby Wayzgoose Anthology is a deadline looming more ominously [...]
Bite Me!
February 16, 2008Work on the vampire story project has begun in earnest. A little background: last year, the Ottawa Press Gang decided to do a second collaboration, this one based on the very general theme of fairy tales. After spending months playing with the notion of doing a R.L Stevenson juvenile poem, and not really very happy [...]
And I Was Just Joking!
February 14, 2008The PC icon changed yesterday. Now I’m worried…..
Demon in the Machine
February 11, 2008I’m a Mac guy. Have been since a good friend sat me down in front of a Mac Classic back in 1992. Prior to that, I worked in DOS, so you can imagine the paradigm warp that took place. Well, maybe you Window lifers can’t, and that’s OK. For 15 years I’ve been vaguely aware [...]
Expletive
February 11, 2008I can utter expletives all I like, but our resident imperial presence loves my press. There’s a reason that some fine press printers ban the likes of cats and dogs from their workshops and studios. All that cat hair flying around can land on the type, and once the drum rolls over it, the [...]
Letterpress is Dead. Long Live Letterpress.
February 4, 2008A Pub, Somewhere in Europe, circa 1500 C.E. — Five scribes, Friedrich, Franz, Hans, François and Gustav, are sitting around a table drowning their sorrows. This new-fangled printing press turned out not to be just another block printing fad. It’s spreading across Europe like the plague, putting calligraphers and scribes out of business! Five more [...]
