…nics and to become better acquainted with the local network of Los Angeles printers and print enthusiasts from across the nation. In 2011, in keeping with his mission, he presented a paper on blackletter and graffiti at APHA’s Printing at the Edge conference. And he has been serving as Program Co-Chair for the Southern California Branch since January 2014 and Program Chair since August. During that time Mr. Erickson has helped to organize a number…
…ing archives, and curious survivals of letterpress operations. The role of printing in a devotional community and in a small town newspaper will be vividly experienced. A morning session at the Amana Colonies will include a visit to the research library of the Amana Heritage Society. There we will enjoy a guided tour of collections by Lanny Haldy, Emeritus Director, who will provide a synopsis of the role of print in building devotional and commun…
…information go to http://historysanjose.org/wp/events/slugs-dingbats-tramp-printers-printing-in-santa-clara-valley/ March 4, 2015, at 6 p.m. For those that missed last November’s tour of the Grabhorn with Alastair Johnston, don’t despair: this Wednesday, March 4, he will repeat the performance (with the caveat that he is giving a slideshow, as opposed to the private tour APHA NorCal members got in November!) He will present the illustrated talk at…
…ecial love for 19th century wood type. I am always looking for a reason to print since printing is an avocation. (I am a builder during the week.) I am also always looking for reasons to display my collection of wood type. Recently Antioch College, my Alma Matter, has been struggling to survive and reinvent itself, as it has done several times in its history. I belong to a national printer’s sharing group called the Amalgamated Printers Associatio…
…inviting evocative terms into the lexicon like the black art, blackletter, printer’s devil, printing chappel, hell box, and coffin. These associations were with us from the start. In the opening preface to the 1677 edition of Mechanick Exercises: or, The Doctrine of Handy-works, author and printer Joseph Moxon noted, “handy-craft signifies cunning or sleight, or craft of the hand, which cannot be taught by Words, but is only gain’d by Practice and…
…urers sponsored a historical exhibition in the middle of the chief British printing trade show known as IPEX. ‘Printing and the mind of man’ aimed to show ‘what Western Civilization owes to print’. It was proof, among other things, of Stanley Morison’s remarkable ability to charm money out of practical men for causes be believed to be worthwhile. The idea of the exhibition went back to 1940, when it had been decided to celebrate the five hundredth…
…ly found itself surrounded by three pages of Confederate news as the Union printers in their haste also printed the already-set third page of the Conservator next to their own Union sheet. (Boston Athenaeum) Wars of words are as old as print, or older, and the press has often played a role in armed conflict. James Berkey’s presentation, soldier newspapers of the Civil War brought to our attention an instance where the printed page itself became a…
…rs from the Edo Period; Anne Covell, Kazuko Hioki { PANEL 2. From Paper to Print } From Paper to Print: Robert C. Williams Museum of Papermaking and Atlanta Printmakers Studio Collaborations; Jerushia Graham, Virginia Howell, Suzanne Sawyer { PANEL 3. Paper in Artists’ Books II: Reflections } The Conversation Between Paper and Printing in Contemporary Artists’ Books; Inge Bruggeman ¶ Material of the Margins: Handmade Paper in Artist’s Books; Tatia…
…ems (Photo: Matthew Kirschenbaum) Matthew Kirschenbaum “Kamau Brathwaite’s Printer” Matthew Kirschenbaum stunned the audience by introducing a grey Macintosh StyleWriter. This inkjet printer is of the same vintage and model as the one used by Edward Kamau Brathwaite in 1990 during a Harvard residency that allowed him to write in light and make sound visible. The prolific and acclaimed Barbadian writer has used other computers—to craft his X/Self’s…
…lson, Jr. | The Atelier Press | Charles Town, West Virginia Linotype & metal type in 3 colors ⬆ November 2022 Zachary Escobar | George Mason University & Don Starr | Glyph Pressroom | Havre de Grace, MD Digital print and handset metal type in 1 color Not received yet. ⬆ December 2022 Ann Lemon | Kutztown, PA ⬆ Colophon 2022 George Barnum | Leaden Army Press | Austinberg, OH Handset metal type in 1 color…