bookish lady

A fun season of letterpress classes is about to begin at Pyramid Atlantic!  There’s still time to sign up here.
Letterpress for Graphic Designers

Saturday, September 18 from 10am-4pm plus one 4-hour individual appointment
Instructors: Moira McCauley and Julia Louie
Graphic designers– Learn how to use photopolymer technology to print your own designs with letterpress! A one-day small group […]

It’s about time I caught you up on what I’ve been up to this summer!  In June, I headed to Massachusetts with Julia and Leslie for a class with Vandercook guru Paul Moxon at the Museum of Printing in North Andover.  The topic was “Letterpress Finesse,” so we messed around with makeready, ink additives, paper […]

It was super snowy today, but as I kept claiming, it just added to the romance of the Holiday Shop-N-Stroll!  Here’s Patty and Yarrow and I all bundled up in our booth.

Hope to see you tomorrow in Manhattan for the BUST Holiday Craftacular!  I’m headed there at the crack of dawn.

I had a busy winter, but mostly focused on custom work and travel.  Here are some highlights:
A hand-set poem by Denise Levertov:

This close to a bison in western Montana, this close to lava at Volcan Pacaya in Guatemala:
 
Helping Ian print text for this album cover:

I’m in the middle of 4 artists’ books so I’ll […]

When I started working at Pyramid I decided that one of the first things I wanted to do was make a type catalog showing examples of all the typefaces there.  But with 88+ cases of type, that job was wayyyyyy easier said than done.  (I just learned from this New Yorker article that your average […]

Last night I went to the second meeting for Moving Parts, a collaboration between Pyramid Atlantic and CityDance.  The idea was to make an edition of artists’ books, and I was invited to be one of ten artists to contribute.  We will each design and produce 50 (!) copies of a miniature art book inspired […]

Join me at Pyramid Atlantic on Saturday, November 15 for a small group introduction to letterpress on our Vandercook presses!
This three hour workshop provides a basic overview of letterpress printing. You will learn the following letterpress basics: type setting by hand, presswork, inking, editioning (a small edition of three), and Vandercook operation. […]

I remember my interest in book arts exploding at the Pyramid Atlantic Book Arts Fair and Conference four years ago.  The biennial event is back this year, at the fancy new Morris and Gwendolyn Cafritz Foundation Arts Center at Montgomery College (Takoma/Silver Spring campus).
The opening reception is Friday, followed by two days of conferences and […]

Experienced letterpress printers:
Join me tonight at Pyramid Atlantic for another Letterpress Happy Hour!
Pay only $10 ($20 for non-members) to mix, mingle, and set type or print whatever project you’re working on. We’ll have silver ink on one of the Vandercooks.
Email me at letterpress (at) pyramid-atlantic (dot) com to RSVP.
8230 Georgia Avenue
Silver Spring, MD 20910
(5 […]

I’ll be in Baltimore tomorrow for the Street Beat Festival in Federal Hill.  11am to 7pm, rain or shine!
S. Charles and Cross Streets
Federal Hill
Baltimore, MD