Books, Design and Culture
The talented Jay Ryan, owner of The Bird Machine screen print poster workshop, interviewed as part of a series of short films about craftspeople in the Chicago area called Practice and Space:
You can see more of Jay Ryan’s posters in two books collecting his work published by Akashic Books: 100 Squirrels, 134 Posters and Animals and Objects In and Out of Water
1 CommentThe New York Times has posted a short video interview with Earl Kallemeyn of Kallemeyn Press about the beauty of letterpress:
Comments closed‘Ink & Paper’ is a bitter-sweet short film directed by Ben Proudfoot about Los Angeles paper company McManus & Morgan Paper and their next-door neighbour Aardvark Letterpress:
(Happy New Year)
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Yes, yet another “making of” video, but before you roll your eyes and click away, take a moment to watch this one. It shows the cover design for the latest issue of German graphic design magazine Novum. Designed by Paperlux, the tactile cover bends and folds in small triangles. I don’t know how it would work with a book cover (and I’m not sure I want to), but it’s pretty neat all the same:
(via Graphic Exchange)
Comments closedIn this short film, Nicholas Kennedy proprietor of Trip Print Press in Toronto talks about the process of printing with letterpress and running a print shop:
(via Tania)
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Here’s a short video showing the complex production of Jonathan Safran Foer’s innovative die-cut novel Tree of Codes, published by Visual Editions and printed by Die Keure in Belgium:
(via Creative Review)
Comments closedChip Kidd, book designer and associate art director at A.A. Knopf, profiled at Stodgy is Sexy:
Comments closedHere’s a fascinating 1947 documentary produced by Encyclopedia Britannica Films about the mass production of books:
(via Brain Pickings)
1 CommentLetterMpress is a project by graphic designer John Bonadies to create a virtual letterpress environment for the iPad that will allow users to create authentic-looking letterpress designs and prints:
The design process is the same as the letterpress process—you place and arrange type and cuts on a press bed, lock the type, ink the type, and print. You will be able to create unlimited designs, with multiple colors, using authentic vintage wood type and art cuts. And you can print your design directly from LetterMpress or save it as an image for import it into other applications.
The project has already reached its initial Kickstarter funding target to purchase complete collections of wood type, but no doubt additional funds will be useful. The type that acquired by LetterMpress will be housed at a new letterpress co-op called the “Living Letter Press” and project organizers plan to offer authentic letterpress prints from designs submitted by users in future.
4 CommentsThe Creative Review visits the South London studio of independent letterpress printer Kelvyn Smith:
Smith’s work is being shown as part of the Reverting To Type exhibition at the Standpoint Gallery in London, opening December 10th (mentioned previously here).
(via Coudal / Acejet 170)
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Curated by Graham Bignell & Richard Ardagh, Reverting to Type at the Standpoint Gallery in London will showcase the work of twenty contemporary letterpress practitioners from around the world:
Reverting To Type runs from December 10th–24th and continues January 4th–22nd, 2011. The Creative Review has more on the exhibition here.
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