For the Love of Letterpress
A Printing Handbook for Instructors and Students
Published on 15. August 2013
Book
Paperback/Softback
160 pages
978-1-4081-3941-7 (ISBN)
Description
Awarded an American Graphic Design Award of Excellence by Graphic Design USA in 2014
Conveying the authors' love of the letterpress process and product, this book covers everything you need to know to create beautiful work. Beginning with the technology and history of type and the printed page, it continues with the fundamentals of measurement, terminology and the lay of the case. Guidance on planning the concept, gathering inspiration and critiquing your work will help you develop your skills or show you how to lead others to do so. The authors also show how contemporary digital processes are highly compatible with letterpress and have expanded its boundaries in the 21st century. A must for students who wish to learn letterpress and instructors as a handy reference.
Conveying the authors' love of the letterpress process and product, this book covers everything you need to know to create beautiful work. Beginning with the technology and history of type and the printed page, it continues with the fundamentals of measurement, terminology and the lay of the case. Guidance on planning the concept, gathering inspiration and critiquing your work will help you develop your skills or show you how to lead others to do so. The authors also show how contemporary digital processes are highly compatible with letterpress and have expanded its boundaries in the 21st century. A must for students who wish to learn letterpress and instructors as a handy reference.
Reviews / Votes
Chapters on technical aspects of presses, printing, good studio practice, relief matrices,and (please note) contemporary processes, are written in accessible language with useful information
and tips that can only be gained from experienced practitioners. Enhanced by a fascinating array
of images of prints, ephemera and artists' books by letterpress and book arts practitioners around the
globe. -- Angie Butler, Book Artist, UK * PRINTMAKING TODAY * In short, the book is a solid overview - not overly in-depth in any one area, it is a suitable primer for those new to the field or in search of guidance to help teach others ... For those interested in understanding the whole mind-body process and experience of letterpress printing as a fine art form, this book delivers -- Camden M. Richards, co-owner of Studio Ephemera, California, USA * The Book Club of California, The Quarterly News-Letter, vol. LXXIX *
More details
Language
English
Place of publication
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Illustrations
200 colour illus
Dimensions
Height: 246 mm
Width: 189 mm
Weight
512 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-4081-3941-7 (9781408139417)
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Schweitzer Classification
Persons
Cathie Ruggie Saunders has been making letterpress books since 1973 and has over 25 years of experience teaching letterpress printing to graduate and undergraduate students at the School of Art Institute in Chicago.
Martha Chiplis has an MFA in Graphics from the University of Wisconsin, Madison and a BFA from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. She worked for Sherwin Beach Press as a letterpress printer and designer for 16 years, and began teaching at the School of the Art Institute in 2008.
Martha Chiplis has an MFA in Graphics from the University of Wisconsin, Madison and a BFA from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. She worked for Sherwin Beach Press as a letterpress printer and designer for 16 years, and began teaching at the School of the Art Institute in 2008.
Content
Acknowledgements
1 The Sensual, Printed Artifact
The Allure
The Passion
2 The Historical Legacy: Connecting the Past and Future
Frederic Goudy
Oswald Cooper
Robert Hunter Middleton
3 Printer's Primer
Terminology
Measurement
Lay of the Case
Spacing and Leading
Setting Type by Hand
Tying up the Form
Alignment
Ink
Paper for Proofing
Proofing
4 Press and Printing
Paper
The Vandercook Proof Press: "The Editioning Press"
Lock-Up
Press Operation
Checking the Impression
Makeready
Registering Multiple Colors
Editioning
After Printing: Cleaning the Press
Platen Presses (Chandler & Price)
5 Relief Matrices
Foundry Type
Monotype
Linotype
Ludlow
Images
Ornaments
Woodcuts
Wood Engraving
Linoleum Cut
Laser-Cut Materials
Other
6 Contemporary Processes
Found Objects and Other Materials
Pressure Printing
Split Fountain
Debossing
Printing without Ink
Damping
Monoprint
Hand Inking
Splatter
Ghosting
Backwards Transfer
Floriated Initial Image Transfer
Brayer Roll-Outs
Stencil
7 Creating a Concept
Sources of Inspiration
Time
8 Envisioning the Object
Structural Possibilities
Relationship of Content and Structure
The Function of Dummy Structures
Choosing Appropriate Typefaces
Choosing Appropriate Paper
Choosing an Appropriate Color Palette
The Colophon
9 Assessing the Object Envisioned
Critique Format Models
The Synergy of Form and Content
10 Gallery of Lettepress
Conclusion
Appendices
Further Reading
Additional Resources
Letterpress Nomenclature (Glossary)
Index
1 The Sensual, Printed Artifact
The Allure
The Passion
2 The Historical Legacy: Connecting the Past and Future
Frederic Goudy
Oswald Cooper
Robert Hunter Middleton
3 Printer's Primer
Terminology
Measurement
Lay of the Case
Spacing and Leading
Setting Type by Hand
Tying up the Form
Alignment
Ink
Paper for Proofing
Proofing
4 Press and Printing
Paper
The Vandercook Proof Press: "The Editioning Press"
Lock-Up
Press Operation
Checking the Impression
Makeready
Registering Multiple Colors
Editioning
After Printing: Cleaning the Press
Platen Presses (Chandler & Price)
5 Relief Matrices
Foundry Type
Monotype
Linotype
Ludlow
Images
Ornaments
Woodcuts
Wood Engraving
Linoleum Cut
Laser-Cut Materials
Other
6 Contemporary Processes
Found Objects and Other Materials
Pressure Printing
Split Fountain
Debossing
Printing without Ink
Damping
Monoprint
Hand Inking
Splatter
Ghosting
Backwards Transfer
Floriated Initial Image Transfer
Brayer Roll-Outs
Stencil
7 Creating a Concept
Sources of Inspiration
Time
8 Envisioning the Object
Structural Possibilities
Relationship of Content and Structure
The Function of Dummy Structures
Choosing Appropriate Typefaces
Choosing Appropriate Paper
Choosing an Appropriate Color Palette
The Colophon
9 Assessing the Object Envisioned
Critique Format Models
The Synergy of Form and Content
10 Gallery of Lettepress
Conclusion
Appendices
Further Reading
Additional Resources
Letterpress Nomenclature (Glossary)
Index