12 Saturday May 2012
Posted in Books, Letterpress, Printing, The Intruder
Friday was a long day of printing. The dampened sheets were ready to go and I had pretty much set up the title page after about ten prototypes which slowly evolved to this. Printed in 2 colors and backed up on the reverse side with the half title in the same shade of green ink. While the ink was on the press I also printed the page captions for the colophon and foreword.
Kind of a modernist take on the title page. The type is a combination of hand set ATF Garamond and Linotype Janson.
08 Tuesday May 2012
Posted in Letterpress, Printing
Today we took a break from the The Intruder to print some other job work. I’ve been getting a couple of jobs from the Michigan DNR Archives, today we reprinted the promotional material originally made for the very first “Michigan Day” back in the 1950s, here it is reproduced for an A2 size card.
Here’s a pic of the last job done for the state as well, it’s an ongoing series of all the Michigan trout stamps issued before we went to plasticy nasty junk and “all species” licenses. These will culminate in a book next year with an introduction by Jerry Dennis.
Trout stamp cards and coasters
Over the weekend work continued on the new studio space in the lower garage. With luck the drywall will be finished up tomorrow and then finally it’s time for the big press shuffle.
Chad Pastotnik, Deep Wood Press 