Tuesday, February 16th, 2010
In Dubuque, IA, the owner of a screen-printing sportswear business is assisting Haitian disaster relief with the T-shirt pictured above. Tom Rauen, who started Envision Sports Designs in Dubuque four years ago, is selling the shirts for $10 and will donate 100% of the proceeds to the American Red Cross. His ...Friday, February 12th, 2010
There was a time when, if you gave your sweetheart a present of chocolates for St. Valentine’s Day, chances were good that Jesse Salwen made the heart-shaped box you gave them in. His business, A. Klein & Co., ceased operation more than a year ago, but Salwen continues to touch real ...Monday, February 1st, 2010
The upper image shows the effect of lighting on an offset lithographic print when illumined at an angle of 45º. Underneath is the same image lighted straight on at 0º. It’s one of a number of visual comparisons that can be performed at the Graphics Atlas, an online resource in ...Tuesday, January 12th, 2010
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BritishLetterpress.co.uk has to be one of the best destinations on the Web for letterpress hobbyists or anyone else with an interest in the art of printing with handset type on hand- or treadle-operated iron presses. Although intended primarily for practitioners in the U.K., the site’s wealth of practical material is ...Monday, November 23rd, 2009
“To be considered knowledgeable in the fields of printing, one needs a working knowledge of most of the following processes: letterpress; lithography; photo-lithography; dry, web, and sheet-fed offset photolithography; rotary and sheet-fed gravure; silk screen; collotype; copper plate or engraved printing; thermography; and as well, a command over the common ...Monday, October 12th, 2009
A recent story in The New York Times about New York City's takeover of the historic Bowne House in Flushing, Queens, was a reminder of the significance of the Bowne name both in U.S. printing history and in the annals of social justice and public service. The house, built by ...Wednesday, September 30th, 2009
This is a paper slicer, circa 1845, and it’s but one of the relics to be found at the American Bookbinders Museum in San Francisco, CA. The collection of bookbinding equipment and artifacts, profiled in a story in the San Francisco Chronicle, recalls a time when that city had the ...Tuesday, September 8th, 2009
“Advertising without posters is like fishing without worms.” So believed Charles and Herbert Hatch, who in 1879 opened what continues to be one of the oldest working letterpress shops in America: Hatch Show Print of Nashville, TN. The shop—now owned and operated by Nashville’s Country Music Hall of Fame—is famous ...Monday, August 31st, 2009
Typophiles, to Taipei! For there, reports the Taipei Times, you’ll find a matchless typographical treasure: the last complete set of traditional Chinese character molds for lead-type casting in the world. The molds—all 200,000 of them—are the property of Ri Xing Typography, one of just two type foundries in Taiwan that ...
