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This here website is currently under construction.

I’ll be posting more content soon, but in the meantime, please feel free to check out the offerings in my Etsy store, visit the Facebook page, or follow along my adventures with Moveable Type, a printshop on wheels!

Moveable Type has hit the road!  You can follow along over at the other website, if you’re so inclined: www.type-truck.com

There you’ll find an up to date tour schedule and other details about the project.  I hope to sync up that blog to this page at some point, but this will have to do as a placeholder in the meantime.

Thanks for visiting!

On Saturday, I went to an open house to celebrate the new CC Stern Type Foundry in Portland.

This is so exciting – a small and dedicated group of printers and type enthusiasts has inherited the Monotype foundry equipment once belonging to Chris Stern, of Stern & Faye Printers in Sedro-Woolley, Washington.  Together, they are busting ass to repair and restore the equipment back to working order, in hopes of creating a working museum to teach folks about the industry and art of type casting.

This is a great group of people, and they’re working so hard – please check out what they’re up to!

Volunteers and donations are always welcome, and you can also back their Kickstarter fundraiser here: http://kck.st/edabub

Only two days remain!

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hand-set wood type on recycled paper

Just finished printing a trio of posters for Avery Anthology‘s 25 Cities project.  The theme is… cities!

Specifically, the 25 biggest cities in the country.  Did you know that Charlotte, NC is among them?  And, actually, according to some data I’ve seen, Vegas isn’t in the top 25.

Regardless, Avery Anthology just finished a successful Kickstarter campaign to fund their next publication – way to go, guys!

These posters will be given as rewards to some of their backers.  They will also be available for sale to everyone else through the Avery website and through my Etsy shop.

Go check out this publication – they do beautiful work.

she's a beaut

So happy to report that I am the proud new owner of a 1982 Chevy step van.

Huzzah!

Canadian Maritimes, what is UP?!

This is by no means complete.

But I’ve spent the past two weeks with my face buried in maps, trying to figure out a route for Moveable Type.  These points mark places that I’ve booked, places I’m in the process of booking, and places I just really really want to visit.

See something missing?  Let me know!  I’m always on the lookout for new and interesting people and places to visit.

because I'm a lady...

I’ve been doing some hibernating these past few weeks, trying to get up to speed on all manner of computer-based work.  Necessary stuff, but sometimes I like to remind myself of how it feels and looks when I really work with my hands…

a woman's place is in the press room

Parsons. Niiiiiiiice.

Man, oh man, things keeps getting better and better over here at Moveable Type HQ…

I am delighted to announce that Moveable Type will also be partnering with the Dale Guild Type Foundry!!!  This is a tremendous honor – the foundry will be providing Moveable Type with a nice collection of gorgeous newly-cast type.  It will also allow me to work an essential component into the project: what is happening now?  To be able to show people that type is still being cast today is a really important piece of the puzzle.

The Dale Guild is picking up where the American Type Founders, Co. (ATF) left off when they closed their doors in 1993.  For 100 years prior, ATF had been the leading type foundry in the country, but economic hardships and general mismanagement allowed this giant to fall into a sad decline throughout the middle of the 20th century.  Fortunately for us, a man named Theo Rehak came onto the scene in the mid 1970s and worked hard to learn the varied and often isolated skills involved in type casting, and has managed to keep this craft alive.  He was able to purchase much of the original ATF casting equipment, and it is on these same machines that this new type is being made.

Many thanks to Dan Morris of The Arm Letterpress in Brooklyn for orchestrating this partnership.  I am so grateful and happy to be able to put this beautiful type to good use and help spread the word about Dale Guild – thanks, guys!

more Parsons

It’s a snowy night in Wisconsin, my last night here before heading off to new adventures.  It’s been a pretty amazing few weeks here at Hamilton Wood Type & Printing Museum… a really productive and inspiring time.  I’ll post some photos of what I’ve been working on soon.

But first, I’m thrilled to announce that Hamilton will be a sponsor of Moveable Type!  This is such an extraordinary honor for me – not only will this sponsorship provide some much needed equipment and supplies, but it’s also a huge vote of confidence for the project.  In turn, I’ll be able to help promote the Museum throughout my travels and spread the good word about wood type.  Thank you, Hamilton!  I am so excited to continue my relationship with you!

Here are some images of a crazy clown that Jim Moran has been printing.  These blocks are from the Globe Collection, which is slowly being uncovered from the deepest, darkest recesses of the Museum.

what's he pointing at?

Visit the museum!  Seriously – it’s really not that far away.  In the meantime, you can find out more about Hamilton here: http://www.woodtype.org/ and  facebook

Also, I’ve gotten some great feedback about the massive Prince/Prints poster that I helped work on the other day… a sweet VIDEO of the making is in the works, so stay tuned!

What do you do when you’re hanging out in a place that stockpiles rooms full of massive old type?       You print it, of course.

Here, the fruits of our day’s labor:

inking up the biggest I I've ever seen. Aye.

inking the 4

Bill Moran and Rory Sparks pose with the form

and voila! A 20-foot tall poster, printed in an edition of 3.