This weekend I decided to use the ludlow machine to cast simplistic, purely typographic business cards. I have been a docent at The International Printing Museum for about 3 years so its funny to say this is the first time I have letterpressed business cards for myself. I decided to use only the ludlow typograph [...]
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Sitting in the book arts lab I almost fell over as fellow docents carried in a beautiful Apple Macintosh 128k and sat it down in front of me. Knowing I used to work for Apple the computer was brought in and placed before me partially in jest, it had been assumed that the [...]
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The Ludlow Project is a kickstarter started by The International Printing Museum with the goal of rescuing a collection of approximately 100 full fonts of antique Ludlow Typecasting matrices. After acquiring the collection we will catalog & organize the fonts into our working collection & digitize Ludlow Type Specimen books with notes on available fonts for [...]
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This is a re-post of sorts. In July 2010 the iPhone 4 was released and AT&T’s networks, with all their “preparation” still crippled under the weight of activation of new phones. AT&T had worked with Apple to try and make this a smooth and easy process but at the end of the day AT&T’s [...]
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Texture and embossing created by letterpress is a printmaking faux pas but a sought after dialect by graphic artists that holds as evidence to hand made craft in a predominantly digital profession. This is a letterpress poster I created to promote the Los Angeles Printers Fair. The goal was to twist the poster to cater [...]
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