In her North Berkeley print shop, Olivia San Mateo practices the centuries-old craft of letterpress printing. She designs the work, sets the type and prints on enormous machines that seem medieval in ...
Five engineering students are leaving something behind as they graduate from Rochester Institute of Technology—a handmade tabletop letterpress to join the esteemed collection of historic 19th century ...
In a world where the term "changing the font" conjures the drag and click of a computer mouse, a visit to the San Francisco Center for the Book provides a whole new appreciation for those newspaper ...
Long, long ago, it would take the better part of an entire day to set and print newspaper stories just like the one you’re reading right now. Typesetters would work around the clock to line up tiny ...
CHICAGO — Reports of print’s death have been greatly exaggerated. Outpost Magazine is one testament to this; another is Meekling Press, a very small Chicago-based book press that is committed to ...
Denver letterpress printer Tom Parson has been practicing his hands-on and decidedly analog trade as Now It’s Up To You Publications since the early ’80s, after becoming interested in printing as a ...