WHYY-TV’s Best of 2014

Back in June 2014 WHYY-TV in Philadelphia, who does a weekly show on goings-on in Delaware, did a nice segment on Lead Graffiti. In the photo below you can see the WHYY-TV cinematographer recording Tray working on our Intertype C$ linecaster. Be sure to link to the almost 4:00 segment below.

They had just listed their WHYY’s Best of 2014 entitled “First for Friday, December 19, 2014.” Quite nicely and totally unexpected, we are listed first and were the opening segment. Seriously, how nice is all of that.

At the top you can see an image of Jill from the segment. They interviewed the 3 of us, filming every corner of our studio, equipment, type, and lots of our work.. I think we came off pretty well, even mentioning goosebumps twice. Take a look and let us know what you think.

Link to WHYY-TV Best of Delaware 2014.

Our segment starts at 00:44 and runs through 4:23.

Visit by Jim Moran of the Hamilton Type Museum to Lead Graffiti

In the photo: Ray Nichols (left) with Jim Moran looking over the 2014 Tour de Lead Graffiti Stage 19 poster.

Jim Moran, director of the Hamilton Type Museum in Two Rivers, Wisconsin, spent a nice couple of hours with Lead Graffiti Monday, October 13, 2014. Jim had spoken to AIGA / Philadelphia over the weekend and was coming to Newark, Delaware, to speak to a Visual Communications class of Ashley Pigford’s. Ashley, who shares a studio space next to Lead Graffiti, asked if we would like to get some time with  Jim before his UD talk and we jumped at the opportunity.

We drove the hour up to Philadelphia to pick Jim and his wife, Nance and drove them the hour back to Newark. The drive back offered an opportunity to talk about Lead Graffiti and to give him some background information that would help us jump into the important projects we wanted to show once we arrived.

Overall, quite a nice day. And for anyone interested in letterpress a pilgrimage to Two Rivers, Wisconsin, is a rite of passage.

Jill and Ray had visited the Hamilton Type Museum back in 2006 when it was at its old location. Recently relocating to 1816 10th Street, Two Rivers, Wisconsin, they have a new view overlooking Lake Michigan.

Jim invited us to be the inaugural exhibition in the museum's new space with about 50 of our Tour de Lead Graffiti broadsides..

VCUK’14 British Library exhibition selfies

Our good friend and former teaching colleague, Bill Deering, was in London with a Visual Communications study abroad group when our exhibition opened at The British Library. We asked Bill to ask the students to shoot a ’selfie’ of them with the exhibition and we would offer our favorite the chance to work with us on 1 of our Tour de Lead Graffiti posters.

We had David Jones, Bill Roberts, Jill, Tray, and I to help us choose the best ones. In the end we thought we would offer it to 4 that our group liked the best. These were our top 4 in no particular order.

We liked that Chris Miello picked a heavy print to balance on his head.

Erica Holland’s “OMG! They crashed?”

Krista Adams took the opportunity to take a break with one of our "rest day" broadsides.

Olivia Prinzi did a nice, slow motion video (really nice hair) of her running through the exhibition. We especially liked the idea that she was RUNNING through the exhibition. We’ll see what The British Library thinks after I send the the link to this entry.

The four students were offered Stage 14 on Saturday, July 19 for the broadside.