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IT’S A SMALL WORLD is a 5” x 7”, collaborative book that has been produced annually since 1952. Lead Graffiti has produced pages off-&-on since 2012. Here are 3 of those projects which are tied together by our Intertype C4.
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THIS IS A ARTICLE ABOUT IT’S A SMALL WORLD , a collaborative book Lead Graffiti has contributed to.
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When I was teaching creative thinking, to add a bit of incentive to my students, I would often raise the question “What would a good student do? Right here. Right now.” to push to turn a simple opportunity into a miracle.
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Volume 40 / Issue 4 / 2018 newsletter from the MUSEUM OF PRINTING in Haverhill, Massachusetts, included LEAD GRAFFITI in an article entitled On the Road With The Museum of Printing.
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As an auction prize for the Center for Book Arts, Mark Samuels Lasner offered a visit to his Victorian Collection at the University of Delaware which included dinner and a tour of Lead Graffiti, Lead Graffiti contributed a small book as a keepsake and thank you.
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Our reaction via a broadside to the 2018 mid-term election results.
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Anyone interested in helping us solve this problem of how to perforate stamps with ACCURACY? Might take a couple of shots at it, trying it and then readjusting and trying again.
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No. 14 of our politically -focused letterpress postcards is out. We send these cards in the name of INDIVISIBLE / NEWARK, DE, to all of the U.S. SENATORS and another 60 or so essential people. Yes, I know the Senate isn't in session. The card will be waiting for them when they get back.
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With this workshop we passed 1,800 participants in workshops and studio tours over the past 10 years, though we didn’t really get very deeply into workshops until several years into our existence.
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Possessing a copy of Genesis 1:1 from the Dove's Bible adds an element of obsession on our part to the Doves type that was used to print it.
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It was the summer of 2002 in London when our obsession with letterpress first saw the light of day. Two and a half years earlier an omen of our life-altering experience was foretold in the pages of Life Magazine.
Read MoreWe've come up with a different idea for one of our afternoon diversion projects, though it apparently cannot be done in a day. If you're interested, you must to be a committed Democrat or a liberal-leaning Independent.
Read MoreThe idea came from an MSNBC interview about 10 days ago about the events along the Mexico border. It was taken from a momentary phrase during a 5-minute discussion. I wish I could remember who was being interviewed. We thought the sentiment was powerful.
Read MoreIt occurred to us that it might be interesting to buy Die Kunst Der Typographie and see how Paul Renner would use his own typeface, Futura. I did buy it. You can see that the letterspacing is wide letterspacing is incredibly wide by today's standards.
Read MoreWe’ve often collaborated with groups to produce calendars. We often use the projects as an opportunity to experiment with a printing technique we’ve had banging around in our heads.
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THIS POST IS NOT SPECIFICALLY ABOUT LETTERPRESS, but it has good tentacles into our letterpress lives and our love of postcards, especially political ones.
Read MoreThis was the first item of Empire type I've seen come up on eBay. With about 5 days to the end of the auction, I figured out the maximum I wanted to pay and set it. If someone went over it, so be it.
We are working to expand knowledge of our letterpress and bookmaking workshops and have accepted a request to participate in Winterthur Museum’s ‘Teaching Tuesdays.”
Read MoreWe always like working with techniques that have some lack-of-control built into them.
Read MoreA group of graduate students and friends connected with Drexel University in Philadelphia wanted a field trip and chose a Father's Day Werkman workshop at Lead Graffiti for the experience.
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