kylevanhorn.com/teaches/letterpress

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Projects:

-Small Broadside
-Business Cards
-Postcards
-Coasters
-Large Broadsides

Details on these projects will be made public as the semester 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 Mary
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Resources & Inspiration:

Postcards:
Use of rotation (flickr)
Repetition (flickr)
Shifting print: One (flickr) and two(hammerpress)
Creative use of materials (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

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)

Et Cetera:

Proof Positive that even the best printers didn't always just 'kiss' the paper.

How NOT to move a press. (yes, that's our Uni 1)
How SORT OF to move a press, except without the droping it part... (yeah, that's MY press).

The Vanderbook premiers in NYC at the Center for Book ArtsFeb. 25th. Check their calendar for more events associated with the release.

Letterpress Links:
Five Roses (a huge resource)
Briarpress.org (another huge resource)
CULPA (College/Univ. Letterpress) founded by former MICA student Abigail Uhteg
Flurry Blog (run by Boxcar Press), not to be confused with the Boxcar Press Blog
Flickr Letterpress Pools: One and Two.
Dolce Press Blog
Letterpress Listserv
Polymer Plate Listserv
The Vanderblog ("The second nerdiest printmaking blog" according to these guys.)

Resources:
Mohawk
Crane Paper
Legion Paper's SECRET Clearance Page
Dolce Press' list
xpedx (and their local branch)
Boxcar Press
Arch Paper in St. Louis (recycled fabric scraps)

Books:
General Printing
The Art of Wood Type - I will report back on the quality of this...