Letterpress Printing

Letterpress Printing
Author: Paul Maravelas
Publisher:
Total Pages: 205
Release: 2005
Genre: Letterpress printing
ISBN: 9780712349123

A source book for beginning and intermediate letterpress printers. Using explanations of technical terms and illustrations, this manual describes presses, ink, paper, press operation, type and photopolymer plates. The book shows how to set up and run small and large platen presses, and Vandercook and Challenge-style hand cylinder presses.

General Printing

General Printing
Author: Glen U. Cleeton
Publisher:
Total Pages: 224
Release: 2006-09
Genre:
ISBN: 9781734222425

General Printing is a comprehensive guide to letterpress printing. With 300 photos and 140 illustrations, it offers detailed step-by-step visual instruction. Key topics include: handsetting type, taking proofs, mitering rules, locking up a form, adding packing and make-ready, feeding a platen press, advanced composition, design, typography, and tricks of the trade. "The best all-around introductory book for traditional letterpress printing, this manual is profusely illustrated with detailed and useful photographs and should occupy a prominent place on the shelf of every letterpress printer. It will serve as the next best thing to an apprenticeship at the feet of a master printer, and is certain to be used as a handy reference throughout your printing journey." --David S. Rose, Introduction to Letterpress Printing

Letterpress Now

Letterpress Now
Author: Jessica C. White
Publisher: Lark Crafts
Total Pages: 176
Release: 2013-01-01
Genre: Crafts & Hobbies
ISBN: 9781454703297

Explains how to use various types of presses, and includes twenty projects ranging from cards and calendars to stationery and masks.

For the Love of Letterpress

For the Love of Letterpress
Author: Cathie Ruggie Saunders
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Total Pages: 209
Release: 2019-08-08
Genre: Crafts & Hobbies
ISBN: 135005125X

Winner - American Graphic Design Award, Graphic Design USA Conveying the authors' love of the letterpress process and product, this book presents the technical, historical, aesthetic and practical information necessary for both students and instructors. The 2nd edition of For the Love of Letterpress includes an updated gallery of contemporary images of letterpress printing, as well as a new chapter of letterpress assignments from the United States, United Kingdom and Europe. Both additions attest to the dynamic and continued relevance of the media. The authors show how contemporary digital processes have expanded the boundaries of traditional letterpress. By writing with passion and experience, they indicate why a 15th century printing technology based upon crafting with one's hands, still has appeal and value to 21st century artists and designers. Whether incorporated into an academic curriculum or used for self-study, For the Love of Letterpress is a must for students who wish to learn letterpress and instructors seeking inspiration and reference.

Post-Digital Letterpress Printing

Post-Digital Letterpress Printing
Author: Pedro Amado
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 152
Release: 2021-11-09
Genre: Art
ISBN: 1000509621

This book presents an overview of the convergence of traditional letterpress with contemporary digital design and fabrication practices. Reflecting on the role of letterpress within the emergent hybrid post-digital design process, contributors present historical and contemporary analysis, grounded in case studies and current practice. The main themes covered include the research on letterpress as a technology and medium; a reflection on the contribution of letterpress to arts and design education; and current artistic and communication design practice merging past, present and future digital fabrication processes. This will be of interest to scholars working in graphic design, communication design, book design, typography, typeface design, design history, printing, and production technologies.

Adventures in Letterpress

Adventures in Letterpress
Author: Brandon Mise
Publisher: Laurence King Publishing
Total Pages: 240
Release: 2014-02-10
Genre: Design
ISBN: 1780674929

Tactile, retro and idiosyncratic, hand-printed objects have an undeniable appeal, especially in a digital age. In recent years, the nearly obsolete craft of letterpress has been resurrected by artists and designers who have rescued cast-iron presses from basements and scrap yards. Adventures in Letterpress features over 200 examples of the resulting work: elegant cards, edgy broadsheets and everything in between. Beautiful, humorous and sometimes just plain weird, the projects featured in the book perfectly illustrate the vibrant future of this once-endangered medium.

The Itinerant Printer

The Itinerant Printer
Author: Chris Fritton
Publisher:
Total Pages:
Release: 2018
Genre: Letterpress printing
ISBN: 9780692103029

Part travel diary, part cultural anthropology, part philosophical musing, part poetic digression, The Itinerant Printer book is a series of interconnected yet independent vignettes that tell the story of two and a half years on the road visiting letterpress shops throughout America & Canada. The large-format, hardcover book comprises over 300 pages and over 1,500 photos from the 2015-17 journey. This is the ultimate index of this printing adventure, the culmination of all the miles, all the ink, all the paper, all the type, and the blood, sweat, and tears.

The Book Block

The Book Block
Author: Rúben R Dias
Publisher: 0. itemzero
Total Pages: 148
Release: 2019-12-01
Genre: Architecture
ISBN: 9893300886

The Book Block is a manual of industrial binding techniques, the first in the Making a Book collection, which focuses on manuals for graphic book production. With the aim of elevating knowledge about graphic production among designers — helping them to produce better books and communicate more effectively with all those involved in the process — The Book Block brings together the 17 most common industrial binding techniques in 6 categories, exploring each one in detail, describing them and showing what is possible to do in this day and age. Conceived from scratch to be bilingual, in Portuguese and English, the book seeks to systematize Portuguese terminology in the printing industry, while providing the same information in the lingua franca of today’s global market: English. In an international context, with customers, employees and producers sprinkled throughout the world, this book provides the perfect tool for an effective communication. Developed by experienced book designers and bookbinders — Itemzero and Maiadouro — this book is a summary of decades of know-how, now easily made available.