The Wieden + Kennedy Attack guys of Grand Army occupied Lead Graffiti for a weekend long letterpress experiment with fun. Ephemera happened. Ink happened. Wood type happened. A boatload of leading and furniture happened. Hopefully some equality will happen, but that is for a later post.

a bit of teaser: images from the printing (then next to see the images)

a bit of film: GrandArmy x Star Wars

CTS TV in Ontario, Canada produced a nice segment on the show Real Life about our Scribble cards. The show opens with four of the cards sitting on the table.

If you’d like to take a look at the show click here.

Below is a photo we took of the cards before we sent them.

We believe they saw our mention in CoolMomPicks.com.

We are going to use this blog entry to link to films we find interesting that explain letterpress.

Making Books | 1957 | 9:54
Lead Graffiti has an Intertype line caster like shown in the film.

Mad for Books | 5:52
An excellent production about the excitement of letterpress.

American Letterpress: The Art of Hatch Show Print | 8:01
Hatch Show Print in Nashville, TN

Hamilton Type Museum | 6:34
Trailer for the film Type Face. Nice section on making wood type.

Pictorial Webster’s: Inspiration to Completion | 7:56
From the discovery of the 1898 International Dictionary to linotyping the entries to printing the last print on the vandercook to cutting the fingertabs of the deluxe edition, this video gives a quick overview of the process of creating the Pictorial Webster’s fine press edition.

Alan Kitching at the Typography Workshop: Part 1 / Eye Magazine | 2:05 | Part 2 | 2:32 | Part 3 | 2:51
Jill’s and my first hands on experience with letterpress was with Alan on our 2002 VCUK studio abroad to London. Meeting him changed our lives.

Learning to Set Type: how to use a composing stick | 10:20

Six wonderfully aggressive graphic design seniors from Philadelphia University took it upon themselves to set up a Creative Letterpress workshop with Lead Graffiti on Saturday, January 9. We wanted to set up a group project that really let them see how letterpress worked and also might provide them with a piece they could use in their portfolio.

Each student was let loose in our wood and metal type collection to develop a spread about typography or design. They also each set their name in large metal type. These pages were printed on three different colors along with a cover called “Textiments.” After the workshop Lead Graffiti bound the three signatures together. Each student got three copies of the book with their spread as the center of the opening signature.

CoolMomPicks.com, a very cool and really well written blog picked up on our scribble cards. If you are a mom this is a good place to look around.

Check out their post.

We suspect this item alerted CTSTV in Ontario to the cards.