Category: Broadside Project

I’m doing a series of broadsides to experiment with my press, type treatments, and various printing methods. I have a gallery of all my finished prints and broadsides on my website.

Divagations on Printing and Poetry

Hermetic PressThe other day I followed a link to Philip Gallo’s blog and spent a wonderful hour reading the posts. Gallo is a letterpress printer and poet in Minneapolis. That’s his broadside to the left (see the post about it here — it’s about daffodils, printed on daffodil embellished paper, and with a subtle ff in the background). He doesn’t write often, and the posts vary widely, from writing poetry, to typesetting 40 years ago, to a poem called Imagine You Are A Craftsman to hand-setting mouse type. And a few of them are handy letterpress printing tricks:

The Daily Alphabet

The daily alphabet of many children by Juliana DuqueGood50x70 is an non-profit initiative with an annual contest to design posters “confronting seven of the critical issues affecting today’s world.” Charities provide the issues and the submitted posters are given to them to use in their media campaigns. The issues include child labor, climate change, HIV/AIDs, and women rights violations. The one to the left is for the child labor section — it’s called “The daily alphabet of many children” and by Juliana Duque.
See all the charities and posters here.

Broadsided: The Intersection of Art and Literature

Katie Harper, Everything Dances23 Sandy Gallery, in Portland, has an exhibition of letterpress printed broadsides this month. But you don’t have to go to Oregon to see it — they have an excellent online catalog of the show. It includes not only pictures, but the text of all the works! To the right is one I particularly liked — Katie Harper’s Everything Dances — probably because I’m always partial to wood type and any dance quote.