kylevanhorn.com/teaches/letterpress
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Projects:
-Specimen Sheet
-Business Cards
-Postcard
-CALENDAR
-Bonus (optional)
Details on these projects will be made public as the class progresses.
Syllabus (online version)
Syllabus (printable) - print as 1/2 and 3/4.
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A sweet 1959 Film: Learning to Set Type.
contact Kyle
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Resources & Inspiration:
Posters/Broadsides:
Very clever double-message poster (flickr)
Trip Print Press Broadsides (flickr)
Trip Print Press Typography Examples (mixed)
Amazing election posters 1& 2 from Yee Haw. (printed on a Takach etching press, woah!)
Salt Lake Temple posters 1& 2 by Cameron Moll
A nice lockup (for this broadside) (flickr)
Business Cards:
Flickr Set (not all letterpress, but all good.)
Another Flickr Pool (again, not all letterpressed)
Spam inspired Business Cards (and postcards)
Dolce Press Collection (on flickr)
Clever Backs (flickr)
Clever Fronts (flickr)
More business cards at cardobserver.com
Postcards:
Use of rotation (flickr)
Repetition (flickr)
Shifting print: One (flickr) and two(hammerpress)
Creative use of materials (flickr)
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Et Cetera:
Proof Positive that even the best printers didn't always just 'kiss' the paper.
How NOT to move a press. (moving a Vandercook Universal 1)
How SORT OF to move a press, except without the droping it part... (yeah, that's MY C&P).
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