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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Last night I went to see the Tim Burton exhibit at LACMA (Los Angeles County Museum of Art). I am admittedly a horrible LACMA member, having all this time to go see the show and I wait until closing week. The exhibit drew an interesting crowd, a mixture of gallery snobs, hipsters and pop punk [...]
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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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Over the summer Dodge Ram’s creative team decided to do a series of commercials, web design and print advertisements that would embelish the rough and gritty manliness of Dodge Trucks. The team decided on a rugged Old West theme which would tie in the grit, strength and danger of the time with the masculinity [...]
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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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