The first of two recent projects were two calendar pages for the 2008 APA member’s calendar.

While experimenting with the typography for September Jill discovered that if you divide the word into three lines of three letters the middle column is all ‘e’s. That plus a maple leaf and you had a nice fall month. The highlighted days are Labor Day, Jill’s birthday (September 11), and the Autumnal Equinox.

For March Ray’s used the dictionary image of the word ‘mar’. There has been a bothersome discussion going on on the LetPress listserv with a lot of ‘printers’ whining about new people to letterpress using too much impression. Sometimes letterpress is really nice BECAUSE you can push the type down into the paper. Starting in the third line of the definition Ray has written “This page is not marred b the depth of the impression acting as tone-of-voice between the ink and the paper.” We aren’t sure how many people will actually read it.

Then in the dictionary the definition is nicely followed by “Mar., March.”

Title: APA calendar (March / September)
Size: 5.5″ x 8″
Inks: three colors / one side
Production: photopolymer
Press: Vandercook SP-15

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