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PRINTING WITH WOOD TYPE: Letterpress POSTER WORKSHOP

  • Signal Return 9301 Kercheval Avenue Detroit, MI, 48214 United States (map)

Instructed by Elizabeth Isakson-Dado (The Aquarius House)

Price: $150

Class Size: Maximum 8

Make your statement in bold wood type. In this one-day workshop students will learn typesetting techniques, with a focus on wood type, to create a set of twenty 12x19 posters.

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

Bring quotes, jokes, words of wisdom, or your favorite text to class to see in print. Think short and sweet. Try to keep text within 8 words or less and/or 60 letters.

Cost of workshop includes materials, instruction by S-R staff and takeaway prints. Paper in this workshop is from French Paper Company, a small Michigan Paper Mill around for more than 140 years.

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