Wide Wood Type Numbers

Some fun wide short numbers on the press.

1970's Anyone?

Letterpress Revival in Arizona

The New Times, Claire Lawton did a cool article about Sky Shipley and the Skyline Type Foundry! We had fun printing the cover for them.

Here is a link to the story:

http://www.phoenixnewtimes.com/2013-05-09/news/letterpress-is-all-the-rage-and-an-important-part-of-its-history-is-being-preserved-in-arizona/

Here is a link to a slideshow with tons of letterpress related photos:

http://www.phoenixnewtimes.com/slideshow/skyline-type-foundrys-sky-shipley-is-on-a-mission-to-save-letterpress-39515001/

Photos from printing the cover.

 Lots of wood type.

Favorite Holiday Images

So behind on posting! We tend to keep our facebook page a little more current. You can see us on facebook at Letterpress Central.

https://www.facebook.com/LetterpressCentral

Here are some of our favorite images from this past holiday season.

Happy 2013!

Printing holiday wrapping paper.

Donna and Mike's fabulous book tree!

Jingle all the way!

Sam's "Define Naughty" holiday cards

Lisa's fun envelopes

Holiday Cards Class

Wood Type Word Cards - Noel

Wood Type Words - Merry Christmas

Vintage Letterpress Look

My pal Lisa and went thrift store rummaging a few weeks ago and we scored some fun vintage items with letterpress imagery on the covers.

 This is what letterpress can be like BLOOD, SWEAT AND TEARS!!! Oh so true..well sometimes a project can be a bit maddening.  Gosh I remember my dad playing this album when I was a kid. It has really great songs on it.

The backside is set in metal type. So fun!  I need to get a turntable because the album is pristine! I knew we shouldn't have sold ours 10 years ago at a garage sale. Isn't that always the way?  Look out when we find a turntable--we can sing our lungs out while printing!

The next item we found is a kid's spelling book with painted wood type one the cover. It's from the 70's and obviously before photoshop. So cool.

Hamilton Wood Type - Cool Never Fades

Of course we are all gaga about wood type. I love the way it looks, feels and prints  -  imperfections, dings and all .  I was interested when I heard Target had partnered with the Hamilton Wood Type Museum to design some of their fall clothing. Here's a cool video about the project.

I  got Gary a couple of the wood type inspired shirts for his birthday. This ochre one is my favorite. I love the western wood type in blue!

We just listed several sets of wood letterpress type for sale so click here if you want to get some for your letterpress shop!

 NOTE: the letterpress wood type sets we listed on August 16th have all SOLD.

We may be listing more type in the future, so check back with our site. Thanks!



The Boys of Summer--our type of guys!

It's been all hands on deck in terms of reorganizing our letterpress studio. I think we can see the light at the end of the tunnel!

Chandon has been the go-to guy on driving the whole process. 

Mike R has become a super fast, metal-type-distributing-guy and is great at fonting our duplicate typefaces. There is something to be said about 20-something year old eyes looking at 10 pt type!

Jay has great natural ability as a papermaker and has been terrific at jumping in the type foray!

Of course, Mike O is definitely the LP guru and is developing the type list.

Gary can set even the craziest schemes I come up with!

Thanks to Toxic Coyote Frank for coming over from CA to give us a hand. We had a great day with him!

We'll show some of the work we've been printing in a future blog post. We've been doing a lot of custom work lately, invites, stationery as well as fun things like posters. We sometimes forget to photograph printing jobs because we are too busy printing--don't want to get the camera too inky!