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Friday Night Flicks: Letterpress with Keegan Meegan

Posted on November 15, 2019 by Byopia Press

Last week’s flick featured the creation of a physical font. If today’s printer at Keegan Meegan and Co., ever uses Jim Rimmer’s RTF Stern, the font will be used in digital form to make a polymer plate. The video shows … Continue reading →

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Friday Night Flicks: The Beauty of Letterpress

Posted on June 21, 2019 by Byopia Press

Tonight’s video was produced by Neenah Paper and Crane® Papers as part of a fund-raising campaign for the Hamilton Wood Type & Printing Museum in the community of Two Rivers, Wisconsin.     If you have a few minutes to … Continue reading →

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Friday Night Flicks: Paper Ruscha

Posted on September 7, 2018 by Byopia Press

The name Ed Ruscha will be familiar to many in the book arts world. Tonight’s flick from Breakwater Studios is a short of Ruscha having his 2015 ‘print’ Zoot Soot die cut at Aardvark Letterpress in Los Angeles.     … Continue reading →

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Artists’ Books at the Murray Library

Posted on January 28, 2018 by Byopia Press

David and I had an anniversary this week. To celebrate we took an afternoon off and went to see an exhibition at the Murray Library on the University of Saskatchewan campus. Instead of my writing out the show’s description, here’s … Continue reading →

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Friday Night Flicks: Story of AHP Six Typeface

Posted on February 3, 2017 by Byopia Press

AHP Six is a typeface in the same sense that a bunch of large glass beads is a frog for flower-arranging. From the New North Press website: The blocks, named ‘AHP Six’, are a modular set that can be tessellated … Continue reading →

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Putting Up Mangoes

Posted on September 11, 2016 by Byopia Press

The title of this post sounds like I might be about to pass on a recipe, but Putting Up Mangoes is the title of a book. Like most book artists, I collect as well as produce artist’s books. This one arrived on Friday. … Continue reading →

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Friday Night Flicks: Alan Kitching

Posted on May 27, 2016 by Byopia Press

In April, the book Alan Kitching: A Life in Letterpress was published. Written by John L. Walters, with photographs by John Bodkin and Philip Sayer, and published by Laurence King, the book celebrates Alan Kitching’s life and work. Today’s video shows … Continue reading →

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