Author: Paul Maravelas
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780712349123
Category : Letterpress printing
Languages : en
Pages : 205
Book Description
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.
Letterpress Printing
Author: Paul Maravelas
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780712349123
Category : Letterpress printing
Languages : en
Pages : 205
Book Description
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.
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780712349123
Category : Letterpress printing
Languages : en
Pages : 205
Book Description
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
Author: Glen U. Cleeton
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781734222425
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 224
Book Description
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
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781734222425
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 224
Book Description
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
Author: Jessica C. White
Publisher: Lark Crafts
ISBN: 9781454703297
Category : Crafts & Hobbies
Languages : en
Pages : 176
Book Description
Explains how to use various types of presses, and includes twenty projects ranging from cards and calendars to stationery and masks.
Publisher: Lark Crafts
ISBN: 9781454703297
Category : Crafts & Hobbies
Languages : en
Pages : 176
Book Description
Explains how to use various types of presses, and includes twenty projects ranging from cards and calendars to stationery and masks.
Post-Digital Letterpress Printing
Author: Pedro Amado
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1000509621
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 153
Book Description
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.
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1000509621
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 153
Book Description
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.
For the Love of Letterpress
Author: Cathie Ruggie Saunders
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN: 135005125X
Category : Crafts & Hobbies
Languages : en
Pages : 209
Book Description
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.
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN: 135005125X
Category : Crafts & Hobbies
Languages : en
Pages : 209
Book Description
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.
Printing Digital Type on the Hand-operated Flatbed Cylinder Press
Author: Gerald Lange
Publisher: Bieler Press
ISBN:
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 60
Book Description
Publisher: Bieler Press
ISBN:
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 60
Book Description
The Practice of Printing
Author: Ralph Weiss Polk
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Printing
Languages : en
Pages : 326
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Printing
Languages : en
Pages : 326
Book Description
The Time Traveler's Wife
Author: Audrey Niffenegger
Publisher: Night Bookmobile Editions
ISBN: 0578889412
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 504
Book Description
A most untraditional love story, this is the celebrated tale of Henry DeTamble, a dashing, adventuresome librarian who inadvertently travels through time, and Clare Abshire, an artist whose life takes a natural sequential course. Henry and Clare’s passionate affair endures across a sea of time and captures them in an impossibly romantic trap that tests the strength of fate and basks in the bonds of love. “Niffenegger’s inventive and poignant writing is well worth a trip” (Entertainment Weekly).
Publisher: Night Bookmobile Editions
ISBN: 0578889412
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 504
Book Description
A most untraditional love story, this is the celebrated tale of Henry DeTamble, a dashing, adventuresome librarian who inadvertently travels through time, and Clare Abshire, an artist whose life takes a natural sequential course. Henry and Clare’s passionate affair endures across a sea of time and captures them in an impossibly romantic trap that tests the strength of fate and basks in the bonds of love. “Niffenegger’s inventive and poignant writing is well worth a trip” (Entertainment Weekly).
The Itinerant Printer
Author: Chris Fritton
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780692103029
Category : Letterpress printing
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
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.
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780692103029
Category : Letterpress printing
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
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.
Ladies of Letterpress
Author: Jessica C. White
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781782402299
Category : Letterpress printing
Languages : en
Pages : 192
Book Description
The revival of traditional printing methods has been afoot for the last decade, and the tactile charm of letterpress has ensured that its popularity is on the rise. Ladies of Letterpress is an organization that champions the craft, and in particular seeks to showcase and promote the work of women printers. A gallery of art by its members, the work in Ladies of Letterpress ranges from greetings cards to broadsides and posters, and is offered in a cornucopia of type and illustration styles. What comes through clearly, though, is the quality of the work: every one of these pieces is worthy of display on your wall, and with 80 detachable pages, you can create an instant and beautiful gallery of your own.
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781782402299
Category : Letterpress printing
Languages : en
Pages : 192
Book Description
The revival of traditional printing methods has been afoot for the last decade, and the tactile charm of letterpress has ensured that its popularity is on the rise. Ladies of Letterpress is an organization that champions the craft, and in particular seeks to showcase and promote the work of women printers. A gallery of art by its members, the work in Ladies of Letterpress ranges from greetings cards to broadsides and posters, and is offered in a cornucopia of type and illustration styles. What comes through clearly, though, is the quality of the work: every one of these pieces is worthy of display on your wall, and with 80 detachable pages, you can create an instant and beautiful gallery of your own.