THIS POST IS NOT SPECIFICALLY ABOUT LETTERPRESS, but it has good tentacles into our letterpress lives.
72 point Empire metal type
This 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.
Winterthur Museum's "Dining by Design"
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.”
Drawing with caulk : printing via letterpress
I’ve always liked working with techniques that have some lack-of-control built into them.
Drexel University, friends, & fathers
A 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.
Laboratory Press Projet No. 43 added to collection
"Projets,” like the one shown here, were student projects we composed of metal type at the Laboratory Press at Carnegie Tech University. The fine press printing program was the first of its kind in the U.S., started in 1922.
FABS was fab
The Fellowship for American Bibliographic Societies (FABS} is having their annual conference at the University this weekend and today brought a lively group to Lead Graffiti to talk books and to breathe some creative and rarified bookmaking air.
What makes Lead Graffiti so hot?
At Lead Graffiti we are extremely fortunate to have invested in the purchase of an Intertype C4 linecaster. It adds significantly to the historical value of our collection as well allowing us to offer a first-hand experience with "hot metal" type for participants in some of our workshops.
LEAD GRAFFITI HAS CONDUCTED a number of workshops with the Delaware College of Art & Design, most often working with professor John Breakey, whose design class has recently taken our H.N. Werkman Creative Letterpress workshop.
William Ibbett? Jack the Ripper?
A good friend, Casey Smith, was invited to deliver his ideas to the 2018 edition of RipperCon, a biennial conference of all things Jack the Ripper, held in Baltimore, April 7 - 8 and wanted a keepsake to accompany his talk.
Laboratory Press : metal type composition the old-fashioned way
DO YOU TEACH TYPOGRAPHY? Here is a project you should give twice. The first time during the first week of the semester. The second time during the last week.
Proof of our Albion's origin
Over the past couple of years we've put together a lot of circumstantial evidence that our Albion iron hand press was originally purchased to print The Frick Collection Catalog. We've finally gotten our answer.
The actual March for Our Lives
We hit the wall right at Pennsylvania Avenue and 7th Street when the March turned into a singularity, and the space between people disappeared. We were in an excellent position near speakers, a straight on view of a giant screen, and the Capital.
John Bolton : The WH / Lead Graffiti connection
Ralph Begleiter was the director of a University of Delaware speaker series entitled "Global Agenda" that invited speakers to talk about a political theme. In 2005 it was called "Rx for the President." The final speaker that year was John Bolton. We don't remember the reason, but Bolton canceled. We suspect the controversy around his hiring was probably an element.
March for Our Lives / 03.24.18
We cannot imagine the additional pressure that the rash of school shootings is having on this generation. We want to show our support for sane gun laws.
Everything the same, but different
We hated working for a client who came armed with a logo and an accompanying design manual dictating specific color options for both the logo and the corresponding background, how close images could occur to the logo, etc.
A Brief History of Time
Ray has long been mesmerized by the idea of there being a Stephen Hawking, much less that there was a real Stephen Hawking. Many other things that just wander out of the darkness of his shelves of experiences and Stephen Hawking is one of them.
Manhattan Book Fair
THERE WAS A STRANGE ENERGY at the Manhattan Book Fair on Saturday, March 10, and it happened right out of the gate.
Newark Post 10th anniversary front page
The Newark Post, the local Newark, Delaware, newspaper got wind of our 10th anniversary celebration and sent a writer / photographer to join us.
Upper Chesapeake Book Arts Group
RD Burton walked a group of members of the Upper Chesapeake Book Arts Group through the process of producing a non-adhesive accordion-fold book at Lead Graffiti.