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Book_Lab at the University of Maryland
BookLab likes to start them early, especially with the skills of proofreading. “I caught that missing comma for you.”
“THIS TEXT IS A.I. PROOF. GUARANTEED!”
It looks like the “problem” is paying for the posters. “I like it.”
Jill Cypher
Lead Graffiti
Newark, Delaware
⬆ bouquet, a book of poetry by Deborah Arnold with Jill’s paste-paper interpretations of each poem. The deluxe version has a clamshell with cloth decorated like the books shown and a display cradle. Printed on a Vandercook SP15 and bound in a flutter book binding.
⬆ The October page from the Chesapeake Chapter’s 2025 calendar. Printed oversize in black and silver over a full sheet of paste-paper from photopolymers.
⬆ Abecedritype, an alphabet book of bookmaking terms. Printed on a Vandercook SP15 using wood and metal type from our collection. Bound in a flutter book format.
Mike Denker (1946 – 2013)
Stoney Creek Press
⬆ A memorial piece distributed to family members following Mike Denker’s death in 2013. Greg Robison wrote the text. The interior spread and woodcut illustration was designed and printed by Chris Manson, Crooked Crow Press, Rockville, Maryland. The outside folder was produced by Ray Nichols & Jill Cypher, Lead Graffiti, Newark, Delaware.
Lauren Emeritz
Abstract Orange
Washington, DC
⬆ Printed in 3 colors on a Vandercook using wood & metal type.
⬆ The August 2024 APHA Calendar page, which takes the typically thick and sticky letterpress ink and turns it liquid.
Roland Hoover (1929 – 2018)
Pembrook Press
Bethesda, Maryland
⬆ Printed on a Vandercook using handset metal type. Roland did these for several years. The project is being restarted as a memory of his collaboration with the Chapter.
⬆ Lead Graffiti was producing the book for the Delaware Art Museum and, to connect with the work of Leonard Baskin, had Roland design the cover and title page using the typeface Centaur, which Roland possessed in metal type.
⬆ Apologies for adding another Lead Graffiti piece, but this was a “thank you” to Roland Hoover after we bought about 2,000 pounds of Garamond because we wanted something of his in our studio. Looking at the image above this one, you can see that Roland was a classical designer. No tricks. No gimmicks. Readable. He always “said” he liked our work because it differed from his. We thought this thank you would help reinforce that. We really miss this guy.
Ken Kulakowsky
The .918 Club
Lancaster, PA
Chris Manson
Crooked Crow Press
Rockville, MD
⬆ The cover page for the 2023 APHA calendar will be printed in four runs, and there is stirring text about printing.
Carol Maurer
Stitched Presss
Hockessin, DE
⬆ Printed on a Vandercook SP15 in 3 runs (hand-rolled “8” and sun, calendar, and blind-de bossed waves) and hand stitched.
Ray Nichols
Lead Graffiti
Newark, Delaware
⬆ Using Lead Graffiti’s new “Shahn Torn” typeface printing an Edgar Allan Poe quote over an “ink pull.”
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James Quigley
Model Citizen Press
Vermillion, SD (as in South Dakota)
Printed from photopolymer on 24 pt chipboard.
Greg Robison
Peregrinus Press
Bethesda, MD
⬆ A keepsake given out at the launch party for the “Impartial Observer.” Click her to see his wonderful idea.
⬆ A keepsake outlining the founding and wandering of his Peregrinus Press.
Tatiana Shukin
Windhorse Press
Takoma Park, MD
Casey Smith
Executive Director
Frederick Book Arts Center
Frederick, MD
⬆ The 4″ x 8″ cards are held in Zoom meetings to indicate attitude and opinion without interrupting. Printed on a Vandercook Universal III, the color elements we printed from various forms of bubble wrap on a Washington #5 iron handpress.
⬆ The November month of the 2025 Chesapeake Chapter calendar utilized a poem by Emily Dickerson interspersed with the calendar dates. An interesting element is that the word November was created from various letterforms (not necessarily the same letters) from the handwritten poem. Printed on a Vandercook SP15 in 2 runs.
⬆ Casey Smith took his friend, Felix Uwa Abuo, to visit Lead Graffiti. Conversation got around to “Let’s print something.” Maybe BIG because Felix was headed to the BIGGS Museum in Dover, DE. Printed on butcher paper using an iron handpress from 16″ linocuts of the typeface Onyx in hand rolled black and silver. Pretty hot for short notice.
Don Starr
Glyph Press
Havre de Grace, MD
