LETTERPRESS STUDIO

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Amos Kennedy Jr.

Sarah Bryant

Maria Lee

Jen Farell

Katherine Ng

Macy Chadwick

Sarah Bryant

COURSE INFORMATION
Syllabus
Class Calendar
Special Collections List
​Introductory Presentation

PROCEDURES/TECHNIQUES
Handy Guide to Typeshop
Pressure Printing
Photopolymer Plates
Alternative Lock-up Techniques

ASSIGNMENTS
1. Lost Words Postcard Exchange
2. Pressing Issues or ​Independent Project
3. Public/Private or ​Independent Project
4. Language as Code or ​Independent Project
​5. Research Project or Specimen Book Faces

ASSIGNED READINGS & FILMS
1. Design & Production in the Mechanical Age
2. Helvetica (f)
​3. History of Typography (f)
4. Typographical Genius of Walter Hamady (f)
5. Grafica Fidalga (f)

OTHER RELATED LINKS
Letterpress Printing: A Manual for Printers
​Anaïs Nin on Letterpress
Joanna Drucker: Letterpress Language
​The Typeface that Drove Men Mad (f)
​Description of Herbals
Pressing On (f) 
The Machine That Made Us (f)
The Works of Chaucer, Kelmscott Press (f)
William Morris & Kelmscott Press (f)
Printing on the Albion Hand Press (f)
Thomas Bewick (f)

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ASU/Herberger Institute School of Art/Printmaking/Book Arts
Heather Green: heather.j.green@asu.edu
​Office: 426C |  Office hours: TTH 12:30–1:30