Letterpress, wood and metal type, magnesium photo plate
10” x 17”
This poster was designed and printed to promote the revival of the Raymond Carver Writing Festival, held in Carver’s birthplace of Clatskanie, OR (also the new home of our print shop and the C.C. Stern Type Foundry). Raymond Carver is often credited with revising the short story form in America, with a focus on writing about working class folks. It’s been a long time since I tried to print a straight-up show poster, if any writer deserves one it’s Raymond Carver.
Poster designed and printed in collaboration with Brian Scott Bagdonas. Hand-set wood type and metal type, machine composition for smaller text. Linotype 14 point Spartan Medium and Stymie Condensed cast at the new C.C. Stern Type Foundry. Color tint printed from a litho blanket. Letterpress printed on Tango C1S in four colors.
Notes about archiving, letterpress typography and design, projects and items I find interesting in the art, printing and typecasting communities.