We provided an interesting, longer-than-expected Creative Letterpress workshop to 14 students from the Delaware College of Art & Design and their professor John Breakey. We do a workshop with DCAD graphic design students each year and wanted to do something different, yet informative.

We took a long quote from Eric Gill’s An Essay on Typography, divided it into segments for each student which they handset in a different metal typeface from our collection, and then snaked them together into the 15″ x 22″ broadside you see below.

This gave the students the chance to see some different typefaces from what they see on their Macintosh computers along with seeing the value in a group project where everyone contributes a part, making the sum total a quite impressive broadside for them to keep as both a historical as well as a creative reference. We also got to see some of our collection printed for the first time. Here is the list of typefaces from top to bottom.

          Gill Sans
          Augustea Inline
          Champleve
          Boulevard
          Agency Gothic
          Packard
          American Uncial
          Othello
          Cochin Open
          Profile
          Anthanaeum
          Stymie Black Condensed
          Eve Bold
          Bauer Bodoni Heavy Italic
          Spartan Heavy
          Legenda
          Delphin
          Castellar
          Garamond & Garamond Italic

We produced the opening word of the quote the day before with wood type in Gill Sans to celebrate the author using our handrolling technique we refer to as TypeArt. As an added experience for the students, we cast the broadside’s credits on our Intertype C4 with each student personally doing their own name in Palatino and the typeface they handset in Palatino Italic. Seeing the Intertype in action is always a showstopper.

Here is the quote we used.

TYPOGRAPHY (the reproduction of lettering by means of movable letter types) was originally done by pressing the inked surface or ‘face’ of a letter made of wood or metal against a surface of paper or vellum. The unevenness and hardness of paper, the irregularities of type (both in respect of their printing faces and the dimensions of their ‘bodies’) and the mechanical imperfections of presses and printing methods made the work of early printers notable for corresponding unevennesses, irregularities & mechanical imperfections. To ensure that every letter left its mark more or less completely & evenly, considerable and noticeable impression was made in the paper. The printed letter was a coloured letter at the bottom of a ditch.

–Eric Gill from An Essay on Typography, 1931

We had a great time in a Creative Letterpress workshop for six members of AIGA / Philadelphia on Valentine’s Day.

We had ten copperplate ‘V’s made of Victorian letterforms and each participant brought a quote related to Valentine’s Day. Using our Vandercook Universal III, we produced a 2-color book that prints like a broadside (one side only) and with creative scoring and tearing, everyone ended up with an accordion-fold book by the end of the day.

We printed the cover in silver on Lead Graffiti pastepaper (made beforehand). Each of the participants got to cast their name in hot metal using our Intertype C4 for the colophon.

Here is the result.

The binding we employed doesn’t require sewing or use any glue. In the end we folded and bound one copy each and everyone took materials home to make two additional copies, perhaps for a Valentine.

For the full story and more photos, click here.

Ben Kiel and Rich Roat of House Industries, the wonderful & nearby digital type foundry, spent a late night at Lead Graffiti working on a poster Ben had designed for Richard Sachs Cycles. The posters are going to be sold at the Shimano North American Handmade Bicycle Show in Richmond, VA at the end of February.

As it turned out, it was the largest photopolymer plate (about 17″ square) we had ever printed. Luckily we have been experimenting with a new base material for photopolymer plates to fill the beds of our Vandercooks. Up until now we didn’t have enough bases to cover the space required for this project and at the same time fit within the form size on our Vandercook Universal III.

The poster was a first time use of a beautiful new stencil type from from their forthcoming Eames Century Modern collection that is set to premiere in March.

Here is one more photo of ink hitting paper.

Other blog hits on the project.

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Several of the greeting card designs we sell are handrolled coupled with standard letterpress printing, most notably the Monogram cards designed and handrolled by Jill.

Ray has been working on a set of handrolled Thank You cards and you can see a sample from the first run below.

Because of the handwork, these cards take a lot more time than the normal letterpress printed greeting card. This one uses a handrolled background of burgundy and black. The gold text, at least for this first run, was printed on our Vandercook SP-15. The thin lines in the reversed out white type are quite difficult to keep clean when you are handrolling, but we are getting our technique and speed down.

We were trying to keep the cards generally in the same tonal range and the angle of the handrolling the same. Below are two more cards from the set to show some of the differences in the cards. We sort them before we put them in boxed sets to make sure they aren’t radically different as they can often be over a couple hundred cards.

We produced this first set with this color scheme to target a specific retailer, but will be experimenting with other options. If there is a call for it, we could offer specific color combinations with a minimum order.

We haven’t set a suggested retail price yet, but will likely be around $6 a card or $45 for a box of 8. While not cheap they are nicely individual with each card being a bit different from the ones even printed right before and after it.

We’ll have these for the National Stationery Show in New York City, May 16-19. We’re in booth 2767 for anyone visiting the show.

One discussion that comes up during our Metal Type Composition workshop is the placement of the capital J and U which fall at the end of the alphabet in the job case. The explanation is that they are late-comers to the alphabet we know today.

James Mosley in his blog Typefoundry lists that the J and U appear in the first quarter of the 17th century. The W came into existence in the mid-17th century, bringing us to our current total of 26.

Given those dates, we wonder why the W isn’t at the very end except that the W originally was a double V (VV) and that keeping the V and W together was just too logical. It is interesting to note that of the 2,000 job cases containing type we’ve bought over the years, we’ve never found one of the California job cases where the previous owner rearranged them in complete A - Z sequence. Actually, that’s pretty nice.

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.

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.

We will once again be at the National Stationery Show at the Jacob Javitz Center in New York City on May 16 - 19 in booth 2767. There were a lot of very nice booth designs, but we liked the softness of ours.

Jill and our booth from our last NSS.

New cards we’ll have this year are Just My Type, Woodcuts, Tag. You’re it., & Jill’s handrolled Monograms.

Drop us an email if you would like to make an appointment to visit.

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Lead Graffiti put together a nice letterpress workshop for ten officers and board members of the Philadelphia chapter of AIGA culminating in the poster shown below with the group. Click here for the longer version of the story.

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