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BLM #1 : "Black Lives Matter. A lot." broadside

June 6, 2020 Ray Nichols
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THESE MAGNIFICENT PROTEST MARCHES feel like a change-for-a-massively-positive tipping point. Lead Graffiti wants to help the cause.

HAND-INKED ON PAPER, Lead Graffiti printed 50 of these broadsides working with our orphan wood type collection. Titled FOR GEORGE AND OTHERS, we want to sell them for $25 each and give 100% to the BLACK LIVES MATTER cause. We will send you the poster, we will pay for shipping (continental US + AK and HI), and we will add our donation equal to the cost of shipping to the total we give BLM.

I (Ray) spent most of my early life in Louisiana, and I’d like to SEE RACISM AND POLICE BRUTALITY DISAPPEAR. I had a family member that was a cop. Once I asked him why he joined the force, he said, “I like to push people around.” Those exact scary words.

EVERY TIME I see videos of police wading through a crowd, wielding a club, firing anything, I relive that chilling statement. I’m ready to see police brutality done. DONE. PERIOD. I hate being 74 and not being at those protests in Washington, DC. I can’t wait to go there to see in person that fabulously painted technicolor BLACK LIVES MATTER on the street.

FOR GEORGE AND OTHERS is 18” x 24”, printed on French Construction 100# cover stock, signed by the artists and numbered. Choose background Factory Yellow (edition of 30) or Charcoal Brown (edition of 20). Printed slowly & patiently via letterpress in Newark, Delaware. 2020

Could you help us help a righteous cause? LEADGRAFFITI.COM/broadsides/for-george.

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Lead Graffiti has settled its debt with BlackLivesMatter over the sales of 28 posters ($25 each) produced in support of their cause. We had stated that we would match the cost of mailing tubes and USPS shipping (to support that cause). At the end, that was $940.80. We rounded it up to $1000.

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2025

Resist
Liar, Liar.
Just do it!
Bernie Herman

2024

"Ink Pulls:" the hows and whys
Family holiday card workshop
“Liar, Liar.”+3 broadsides @ NAA exhibit
Waldorf diplomas / 2024
More on X-ing the Paragrab
”Concertina spine” book workshop
Lead Graffiti labyrinth
Jill, Ray, & Brodovitch @ the Barnes

2023

Forward for “X-ing a Paragrab”
UCBA member IMHO Meander Mook project
Black History is White History broadside
AIGA / Philadelphia Feedback broadside
Dunya Mikhail “Pronouns” broadside
etaoin shrdlu
Seven Fun Facts about the Linotype

2022

DCAD First-year talks
Cy Twombley. It’s just my opinion anyway.
”No more war. No more Putin.” broadside
Buying our Albion : that story
January 6th assault broadside

2021

Waldorf School of Philadelphia diplomas
Teleport broadside
ONLINE MEANDER BOOK letterpress workshop

2020

A design example of subtle racism
Looking back : Histories of Newark : 1758-2008
Retrospective exhibition at DCAD
Broadside : Black Lives Matter. A lot.

2019

A wonderful film about Ben Joosten
People Were Close (2004 book project)
WHYY-TV / Waldorf School of Philadelphia
What would a good student do?

2018
Alone in Berlin : postcard power
Doves’ type : metal & digital
“Blue Wave” broadside
John Bolton / Lead Graffiti connection
Alan Kitching’s VCUK workshops
U.S. Senators postcard mailing (coming)

2017
Four things you might want to know about Ray
Introducing Stephen Frykholm at AIGA

2016

Saul Bass. A no-show.
Burning Man & Lead Graffiti’s journal
Chris Fritton, The Itinerant Printer
Porter Garnets’s 10 commandments

2015
Best Intertype project #2 : round calendar
The Nash Equilibrium

2014
WHYY-TV’s Best of 2014
London Bombing’s 7th Anniversary

2013
Tour de Lead Graffiti. Sports Illustrated.
Grant Hart. Letterpress printer?
July 4th revolution coasters

2012
Thank You, Craig Cutler

2011
APHA National annual meeting program

2008
Designing Lead Graffiti’s logo
Art Directors Club of NY Grandmasters Award

2004
VCUK’s Alan Kitching letterpress workshops
VC family album pages

2003
Alan Fletcher : Raven Press logo origin
Bukva:raz! - Our first serious piece

2001
Visiting Eric Gill’s Gravesite