The image is a self-portrait Ray took at an interesting display at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art. We visited there after we had completed CODEX VII in February 2019.

 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 and on since 2012. Here are 3 of those projects which are tied together by our Intertype C4.

THIS IS AN ARTICLE ABOUT IT’S A SMALL WORLD , a collaborative book Lead Graffiti has contributed to.

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.

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.

Our reaction via a broadside to the 2018 mid-term election results.

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.

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.

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.

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.

The 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.

We’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.

THIS POST IS NOT SPECIFICALLY ABOUT LETTERPRESS, but it has good tentacles into our letterpress lives and our love of postcards, especially political ones.

In late 2000 or early 2001, before our interest in printing slowly and patiently via letterpress, germinated, Bill Deering and I had a group of Visual communications students on the field trip to Ogilvy, an advertising agency in New York City. We had set up to meet with Nigel Kent, Ogilvy’s Director of Typography. Nigel was from London and we were in the process of scheduling our first VCUK trip that summer. We asked if he could suggest anyone outstanding that could talk to our group about typography. Nigel suggested an instructor at the Royal College of Art named Alan Kitching.

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.

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.”