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    • . . werkman druksels
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The "Blue Wave" broadside

November 13, 2018 Ray Nichols
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Our reaction via a broadside to the 2018 mid-term election results.

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Our Lead Graffiti blog is a wealth of varied information that can be difficult to understand. The search option in the top navigation works quite well if you can hit the right keyword (s). In this sidebar, we’ve highlighted some personally meaningful entries that might help if you want to try a couple of entries. To DEEP DIVE, click somewhere in the right column and then scroll down the left column. Also, if you know us, you can try searching for an appropriate word & the word “blog.”

2026

Day 1: TdLG 2011 through 2015
Tom Monahan’s Before & After
Lunch w iMark Dimunation
Star Wars flag book
Gearing up for “No Kings.”
Steps to make "Bernie Books"
Jigsaw puzzles of our letterpress
Unum’s 250th collaborative

2025

Half of writing history? Hiding the truth.
Werkman workshop at FBAC
UCBA collaborative book / “Trees”
Grollier Club thank you
”RESIST” protest banner
Delaware Eats Houston World Tour
Coptic stitched “Liar, Liar.” book
Political protest posters
”People Were Close” / AMCS
Just do it

2024

Ink pulls: the hows and whys
Holiday folding card workshop
Waldorf School of Philadelphia diplomas
New broadside series using ink, laser-cut acrylic type
Concertina spine
Alexey Brodovitch exhibition
NAA / socially engaged exhibit
Lead Graffiti solo exhibitit at NAA
Don’t know
APHA 2024 calendar pages
Lead Graffiti labyrinth
UCBA & Special Collections
X-ing the Paragrab

2023

Tour de France & Lead Graffiti
Tom Monahan creative thinking workshop
Lunch with Mark Dimunation
Star Wars trading card flag book
No kings or narcissistic nutcases
Bernie Book production
”UNUM” 250th portfolio
Letterpress jigsaw puzzles
UCBA collaborative book / “Trees”
”A Swarm of Bs” book & keepsake


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

2020

A design example of subtle racism
Looking back : Histories of Newark : 1758-2008
Retrospective exhibition at DCAD
Broadside : Black Lives Matter. A lot.
Posters for the “Peter Wood Sit-In”

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

Favorite Rejected Work
Winterthur Dining Design
Family trip back to West Texas
CBA / NYC auction keepsake
Alone in Berlin : postcard power
Doves’ type : metal & digital
“Blue Wave” broadside
Paal Renner letterspacing Future
John Bolton / Lead Graffiti connection
Alan Kitching’s VCUK workshops

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
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