We are always looking for a couple of energetic serious self-starters for short internships (only lasts a fairly limited time, maybe as short as an afternoon)). Partially to get some help and partially to bring some projects to the front of brains. Trade your time for free press time or letterpress experience? Here are a couple.
Letterpress printing some “cinderella stamps” (for a Wikipedia explanation) and then using our perforator. Open schedule. Click here to see a Lead Graffiti blog entry explaining things.
Ray is teaching our 9-year-old granddaughter how to play chess and wants to develop a strategy for doing a 10-broadside series using the chessboard as an image. Person must know how to play chess, he thinks. Then again, maybe not.
Helping with our online Meander Book workshop. Have to be able to work on our schedule.
This would be at least one broadside, but might have the opportunity for a series. I’ve always wondered how / why songs can repeat a line in the lyrics, but poetry seldom does. The example that got me to thinking about this is from The Killers Hot Fuss album and the song “All These Things That I’ve Done.” They repeat the line 10 times.
I’d like to do that with typography, perhaps trying to give you the feel of singing ramps up with each repeated line.
Another afternoon diversion broadside I’d like to do is the story I have about talking with a sophomore student at the Museum of Modern Art. The story is within a couple of blog entries following this one.
A goodgood friend of someone who will change their schedule for you. Bill Deering
Don’t be a scum bag and go to target and buy some stupid mass produced card when you can buy something from your friends handmade locally it says you actually like them.
Another afternoon diversion broadside I’d like to do is the story I have about talking with a sophomore student at the Museum of Modern Art. The story is within a couple of blog entries following this one.
MEANDER BOOK WORKSHOP ONLINE
To fill the void caused by social distancing and perhaps just to be able to connect over larger distances, Lead Graffiti is offering its Meander Book workshop ONLINE. The first one is scheduled with BAYLOR UNIVERSITY from September 12 - 25. We’ll see how it goes.
While we think the loss of the hands-on letterpress experience is indeed a loss, we believe the 1-on-1 attention each participant will get will more than make up for most of that loss and, at the same time will offer some finite benefits that you don’t get in the studio version.
It takes 12 participants to run the workshop. Each person will design their page of a 14-page, 4” x 5”, 2-color, hardcover book, and Lead Graffiti will do the rest of the work.
Each participant will get e-mailed the materials to assemble 3 copies of the final book, which will not require sewing or gluing.
HAMILTON WOOD TYPE MUSEUM TALK
Lead Graffiti was guest co-host with the HAMILTON WOOD TYPE MUSEUM’s “Hamilton Hang” over Zoom, Friday, September 25th, 2020. We set out to prove, as claimed by The Itinerant Printer, that Lead Graffiti was the MOST EXPERIMENTAL letterpress studio.