Keith, Jamie & the
whole cranky crew
wish you much
holiday mirth and merriment.
- Welcome to the Xx!#*! Cranky Pressman Blog where we fuss and fret over work in shop, the glamorous world of letterpress printing, graphic design, type, art and that damn squirrel at the window.
Recent Posts
- Hopelessly dated and out of touch.
- Cranky Pressroom News
- The Brothers not so grim.
- Wood Type Evolved
- Letterpress operators are standing by.
- Making the most of your letterpress work.
- Mind your Ps and Qs at the Cranky Camp.
- Prior Planning Prevents Poor (Letterpress) Performance.
- The Letterpress Machines.
- Enough revelling and time to get busy.
The Morgue
- Back in the day artists and designers kept files of pictures they swiped from magazines. They were called Morgues. Feel free to rummage through our found references below.
- *delicious bookmarks*
Bookarts
Wood Type Evolved
Experimental Letterpress & Relief Printing in the 21st Century
Center for Book and Paper Arts at Columbia College Chicago through December 10, 2011
A little slow off the mark with this but what do you expect from an old fart like me. Curated by April Sheridan and Nick Sherman, Wood Type Evolved opened a couple of weeks ago and runs into December. It explores new art being made with traditional printer's materials and is a fantastic show that I throughly enjoyed and recommend.
