Instructed by Elizabeth Isakson-Dado (The Aquarius House)

Price: $150

Class Size: Maximum 8

Send Artwork to kevin@signalreturnpress.org by June 20th

Design your own bookmark, print it on our antique presses and plant it in the ground?!

In this one-day workshop students will learn typesetting and printing basics to create a set of 10 plantable bookmarks.

This workshop will teach the primary skills of letterpress printing using type from Signal-Return’s extensive collection of lead type, cuts, and ornaments. Each participant will learn how to properly compose, lock-up, and print a form on our table-top platen presses.

Come prepared with an idea of what your bookmarks might say or look like. Think short and sweet, keep text within 4 words or less or about 20 letters. Students will be producing 1 color, single sided designs.

The plantable seed paper contains a blend of wildflower seeds that are native and/or non-invasive to Michigan. This workshop is an opportunity to make a set of 10 bookmarks that can be used for their original intent and be planted to grow into wildflowers. A gift that keeps on giving.

Soak up some summer sun in Signal Return’s bright new studio space and have some fun learning the book arts techniques or refining your letterpress skills.

Cost of workshop includes materials, instruction by S-R staff and takeaway prints. Paper in this workshop is from Porridge Paper, a hand paper mill in Lincoln, NE, around for over 30 years. Seed papers are made from 100% recycled fibers, no chemicals or additives.