Silver Buckle Press Summer Seminar

Printing on the Golding

2008-07-30T16:55:00.005-05:00

Last Friday we printed a small edition of our broadside on the Golding. We discovered the obvious: practice makes perfect. We still have a lot to learn about makeready.

Note on the type: This is monotype and foundry Baskerville in various sizes. Our 24 pt. has old-style figures, the 30 pt. has lining figures.

Sometimes the letter 'S' is not your friend

2008-07-24T12:33:00.005-05:00

Sometimes the letter 'S' is not your friend. But, sometimes your friend can scan away your mistakes.

I thought I'd humor you, Miz Vista.

Font Conference

2008-07-24T12:22:00.001-05:00

This video made us laugh, Font Conference.

2008-07-23T14:52:00.001-05:00

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Hamilton Pictures

2008-07-22T17:46:00.000-05:00

Enjoy!

Hamilton

Always remember the S needs to be right side up

2008-07-21T17:04:00.003-05:00

Here are some pictures from the Two Rivers field trip including our printing session.

Hamilton Wood Type & Printing Museum

2008-07-21T12:20:00.003-05:00

Friday's field trip

2008-07-16T16:14:00.003-05:00

I'll send everyone an email tomorrow with details about our upcoming trip. Don't forget to pack an apron! (Elizabeth, we promise to bring you a souvenir.)

Check out the new link under "resources" about a film that's been done featuring the Hamilton Wood Type & Printing Museum. (http://typeface.kartemquin.com/)

Editing the eventual Proof

2008-07-15T13:11:00.001-05:00

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Golding Tympan Illustration 2

2008-07-15T13:00:00.001-05:00

In response to Miz Vista's commentary about not needing the side tabs, I have re-worked the illustration and eliminated those tabs. These changes make tympan cutting much easier.

(Tympan without side tabs, click to enlarge)

Golding Tympan Illustration

2008-07-15T09:46:00.006-05:00

(Tympan with tabs, click image to enlarge)

2008-07-11T16:58:00.002-05:00

This is the website for designing your own font. Enjoy! http://fontstruct.fontshop.com/

Today: printing. Next week: Two Rivers field trip

2008-07-11T12:00:00.003-05:00

Hello printers,
I've added a link to the Hamilton Wood Type & Printing Museum (under resources on the right) so you can review where we're headed next Friday. I'll go over details this afternoon when we're together. Our host at Hamilton is Greg Corrigan. He'll give us a formal tour when we arrive, and the Silver Buckle has arranged (with kind thanks to the Friends of the UW-Madison Libraries grant program) for the studio fee, so we will be able to set some type and print. I'm hoping we'll have time to set type and proof Friday, and then edition and clean up Saturday before leaving in the mid-afternoon. The plan is to complete a broadside that's already in progress here in Madison. It will be the 2008 issue of our annual "Summer" broadside; we'll post a picture when it's done. And we'll note that it was printed by seminar participants at Hamilton as a commemorative.

Before next week, please also look at some online info on Rob Roy Kelly. Here's a start: http://www.rit.edu/~rkelly/html/index2.html

I look forward to seeing you this afternoon.

Blurb from Libraries @ UW-Madison

2008-07-09T12:12:00.003-05:00

A bit about the seminar was published in the staff newsletter.

News for Staff of UW-Madison Libraries: Golding Press Restored with Friends Grant

A wealth of Resources

2008-07-03T16:24:00.001-05:00

Let's take a trip to N.Y.!

http://www.fiveroses.org/intro.htm

I want my own press too!

2008-07-03T16:04:00.004-05:00

Everybody, check this out...the You Tubes at the bottom are cute-"ancient art form..."

http://www.fiveroses.org/extreme.htm

Even More Photos of Zion!

2008-07-03T12:37:00.002-05:00

Platen Press Museum

Zion again!

2008-07-01T22:48:00.002-05:00

Platen Press, Summer Seminar field trip and rest stop

Day Tripping with the Slug(s) Part Two

2008-07-01T14:24:00.000-05:00

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Day Tripping with the Slug(s)

2008-07-01T14:23:00.000-05:00

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worth seeing

2008-06-29T21:57:00.002-05:00

Eric and I just got back from this movie and it was all about illegal printing on platen presses.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qwr9nCurEEQ

2008-06-27T21:48:00.002-05:00

Pictures and two linotype videos.

Summer Seminar

Slug's Birthday and Setting Type

2008-06-25T13:04:00.000-05:00

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Last Friday's Class--a few pictures

2008-06-24T09:34:00.001-05:00

Summer Seminar, June 20

Typeforms: A history (2007)

2008-06-22T21:17:00.002-05:00

Newly received in Special Collections:

Author: Bartram, Alan, 1932-
Title: Typeforms : a history / Alan Bartram.
Publisher: London : British Library ; New Castle, DE : Oak Knoll Press, 2007.
Contents:
A brief history -- Venetian -- Italian old face -- Italic -- French old face -- Dutch old face -- Dutch old face/Caslon -- Dutch old face/Early transitional -- Early transitional -- Transitional -- Late transitional -- Modern -- Victorian display/Fatface -- Egyptian -- Clarendon -- Sanserif -- Grotesque -- Twentieth-century Roman -- Decorated -- From metal to digital.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 126) and index.
Location: Special Coll. (Memorial Lib.): Reference, Non-circulating

If this title looks familiar, there's a reason: I rescued it from a comment once I got the hang of this blog business! In any event, the book has loads of good images.

type: The secret history of letters

2008-06-22T21:12:00.003-05:00

Author:            Loxley, Simon.
Title:             Type : the secret history of letters / Simon Loxley.
Publisher:         London ; New York : I.B. Tauris, 2004.
Description:       vii, 248 p. : ill. ; 25 cm.
Notes:             Includes bibliographical references (p. [242]-243) and
                    indexes.
Subjects:          Type and type-founding--History.
Location:          College Library Main Collection, 3rd Floor, Room 3191
Call Number:       Z250 A2 L6 2004
                      ______________________________
Location:          Memorial Library Stacks Regular Size Shelving
Call Number:       Z250 A2 L6 2004

By the way, if there are history of the book titles we lack, please let me know. 
We may be able to acquire them.

Helvetica

2008-06-20T21:31:00.000-05:00

For anyone interested, my copy of Helvetica will be on "the shelf" at SBP. You are more than welcome to borrow it.

I changed my name for good.

2008-06-20T16:53:00.000-05:00

Tiggy Figbox

photos of June 13th, 2008

2008-06-20T13:45:00.000-05:00

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Another book of possible interest

2008-06-19T18:37:00.000-05:00

Though this copy is currently checked out, you may want to take a look at this book at some point or another:

Author: Dodd, Robin.
Title: From Gutenberg to opentype : an illustrated history of type from the earliest letterforms to the latest digital fonts / Robin Dodd.
Publisher: Vancouver : Hartley & Marks, c2006.
Description: 192 p. : ill. (mostly col.) ; 26 cm.
Location: College Library Main Collection, 3rd Floor, Room 3191
Catalog: UW Madison
Call Number: Z250 A2 D59 2006b
Status: c.1 Renewed. Due on 12/30/2008 . Try UW System Search.

PS to Slug Eater: my Dashboard is now behaving -- hurrah (and thanks for inviting me via this address, which did the trick).

Raccoons Can't Load Photos Properly

2008-06-19T15:39:00.001-05:00

Both the photos from last week, and these from last week
should be many more...Maybe Kath can show me what I
am doing wrong. There are lots more to share. Raccoons do
better with crayfish than with Picasa.

Shall we blog? Tutorial tomorrow.

2008-06-19T15:39:00.000-05:00

Thanks, Red Racoon. I look forward to seeing more.

We'll have a blog session first thing tomorrow so we can all catch up with picture posting, resource additions, etc. I'm working on the schedule and weekly agenda, and would like to try adding a link to those files during our lesson tomorrow.

Loving the chocolate type!

(btw, Slug Eater's birthday is today.)

2008-06-19T15:38:00.000-05:00

Movable Type in Chocolate

2008-06-15T14:33:00.001-05:00

We should do our typesetting demo with CHOCOLATE TYPE!!!

http://typolade.de/

SBP Golding Official

2008-06-13T11:28:00.000-05:00

Slug Eater - Defined (and oh-so-refined)

2008-06-12T12:31:00.000-05:00

In response to Miz Vista's yearning for an explanation of my name, Slug Eater, I offer this:
1. Eater of Slugs

Better yet, I'll define slug:
1. The variety of non-printing-related terms describing a snail-like creature, a bullet, a punch, etc.
2. Thick pieces of type metal, like leads, used in spacing, but may also be made of brass (This definition is more thoroughly explained in the American Dictionary of Printing and Bookmaking, which was Republished by Gale Research Company, Book Tower, Detroit, 1967. The ADoPaB is at the press should you care to entertain yourselves!)

(Picture of leading, I usually refer to the 6-point thick leads as slugs)

(Slug Eater!)

New feature - Resources column

2008-06-11T16:31:00.001-05:00

Please add interesting sites you find to this list. I don't know yet how to organize it by categories, but I bet someone will figure it out.

Miscellany & Hat Returned

2008-06-11T15:56:00.000-05:00

I'm enjoying the blog traffic. Thank you Slug Eater for getting this going. (Could you explain your name to us?)

Here's a link to Briar Press--a good site for all things letterpress: http://www.briarpress.org/

Did you know that "Elizabeth" is the name of a typeface designed by Elizabeth Friedlander?

Cheers.

Found: 1 Hat

2008-06-11T10:59:00.001-05:00

A light sage colored hat was left here at the press on Friday. It will be here this Friday unless you need to pick it up beforehand.

Even More Photos from the Platen Press Museum

2008-06-11T10:38:00.000-05:00

Paul Aken

Pressing business (fun)

2008-06-09T11:31:00.000-05:00

Red bike

2008-06-09T10:54:00.000-05:00

Red Raccoon-red hair, always distracted by shiny objects (but aren't we all!)-
Loved meeting you all on Friday-this is going to be fun...Micaela

For our visitors from Georgia:

Rentals

Several local shops rent touring, mountain and tandem bicycles:

Budget Bicycle Center, 1230 Regent St., 251-8413

Williamson Bicycle Works, 640 W. Washington Ave. 255-5292 or 3729 E. Washington Ave., 244-2453, www.willybikes.com

Machinery Row Bicycles, 601 Williamson St., 442-5974, www.machineryrowbicycles.com

Yellow Jersey, 419 State St., 257-4737, www.yellowjersey.org

The Red Bike Project, run by Budget Bicycle Center, allows riders to check out bikes for a deposit: $40 for the bike, $20 for the lock. The user is responsible for the bike and when it 's returned, so is the deposit. Contact Budget Bicycle Center (above) for information.

hello hello

2008-06-06T21:55:00.000-05:00

I am so glad to see the blog form so smoothly. It is a pleasure meeting you here; you all look dashing in cyberspace. I am really excited to for what the summer has in store for us. (My name is from the creator of my favorite typeface.)

here are a couple websites all of you should take a look at:

www.designspongeonline.com

www.mwbixler.com

see you next friday.

Photographs of the Platen Press Museum

2008-06-06T20:24:00.000-05:00

Look at the photos I took at the Platen Press Museum.

Platen Press Museum & Paul Aken

Our first session

2008-06-06T17:04:00.000-05:00

Kathy has our BLOG! This is my first post. I look forward to meeting you here. (My blog name is for a typeface we have at the press--a 1960s era slab serif similar to Stymie.)

Welcome!

2008-06-06T16:57:00.001-05:00

Welcome to Silver Buckle Press Summer Seminar!
We are going to get our Golding Official hand press refurbished and printing, learning a lot in the process.