I have a couple of missions for the next couple of months at PRESS. One of them is to organize, by font, the woodtype drawers, which have been seven drawers of slapdash arrangement. Another mission is for me to create a series of prints every month to test and push by printing skills. For February, … Continue reading
Mad River Press Announces the Publication of WHEN AT LAST I JOIN a poem by Amy Fleury with original artwork by Melanie Mowinski This 10 X 14 inch broadside is printed in 4 colors on 280 gram Rives BFK using a Vandercook Universal III letterpress, and also includes an additional watercolor detail painted … Continue reading
Tonight we celebrate three things at PRESS! 1. The release of our 2015 calendar. If you haven’t reserved yours yet, we highly recommend that you do. The first 25 out of 100 have been claimed. Don’t miss out. Download your order form and mail in today. 2015Mantra Calendar 2. The release of When at Last I … Continue reading
One of the fun things that we do at PRESS is host school groups from time to time. Sometimes they come and choose letters from our woodtype to make a word that becomes part of a larger typographical collage. Other times they come with a linoleum block to print. A few days ago students from … Continue reading
Today was an exciting day up here in Rochester! My school, RIT, has an absolutely fabulous graphic arts library, the Cary Collection. In January, the collection welcomed a major acquisition in the form of what is now known as the Kelmscott-Albion press, dating back to 1891. An Albion press is an early hand press used primarily … Continue reading
Hi everyone! As Jonas mentioned in the previous post, my full-time days at PRESS have sadly come to an end. I had such a wonderful summer with Melanie and Jonas; they both taught me so much in my three months with PRESS! Lucky for me, I’ll still be helping out from afar as much as … Continue reading
Nicole has sadly left us, and she spent her last days away from the computer to do some physical printing of her own. In the pictures, we see her experimenting with a gradient roll. She also practiced wetting the paper to make the color as smooth as possible. Of course, the final product, which will … Continue reading
Hi everyone! I’m trying to fit in as much as I can before I leave (I can’t believe my last day is one week from now!), so this week I started learning how to carve a linocut block. While there were a few minor mishaps and one slight injury, I’m pretty happy with my first … Continue reading
This morning, as Melanie cleaned the Vandercook, she exclaimed, “I’m a changed person!”. Printer friend Kate Barber recently suggested that we try cleaning the press with baby oil instead of vegetable shortening. It works like a charm! The ink lifts off of the rollers much more quickly and easily than the shortening. It may have … Continue reading
Intern Jonas has been working on his personal project, Oceania, these last couple of weeks. It’s a book that works as a maze. You turn the pages, tracing your way through until you get to the end. Of course, the structure of the book is sometimes called a “maze book.” These books are made on … Continue reading
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